TEXAS — Both Dallas and Williamson County have decided to make big changes to their voting sites for the oncoming primary elections.
Rather than have centralized polling locations in the counties, both Dallas and Williamson will have their residents vote at assigned polling locations in neighborhoods, as originally reported on by Vote Beat.
The chair of the Williamson County GOP, Michelle Evans, said that she has “a higher level of confidence that the people that are coming in are people that are registered voters in that area, because that is their community.”
However, since both parties must conduct primaries in the same fashion according to state law, Democrats are having trouble finding neighborhood locations for polling, according to Williamson Country Democratic Party Chair Kim Gilby.
“We don’t even have all the locations locked down,” Gilby said. “To me, this is going to be a nightmare.”
Allen West, Dallas County Republican Party Chairman, told Vote Beat that voters should look at their voter registration card to find out their precinct.
“I would hate to believe that we have devolved to a point where we feel the voting electorate is too incompetent to read their own voter registration card,” West said.
According to Texas law, political parties choose their primary vote locations while general election is decided by the county itself. Texas voters should receive a card with their voter registration by the end of the month telling them the precinct where they can cast their votes for the Republican and Democratic primaries.