The Texas Organizing Project is challenging Bexar County in court for not proposing enough polling locations ahead of Election Day.
Bexar County is proposing the fewest number of polling locations the county has ever had for a general election.filed against the county in 2020.
Joaquin Gonzales, with Texas Civil Rights Project, said there are not enough places where voters can cast a ballot. There are 766 precincts in the county, so there should be a minimum of 388 polling locations. The elections office is proposing 267.KSAT reached out to Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen about the decision. She declined to comment.that she closed several polling locations with low voter turnout.
Callanen spoke about the difficulty of staffing, but the Texas Organizing Project argues having fewer polling locations violates the law.
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