Senate Republicans recently passed a bill which would prevent voters from having countywide polling options on Election Day.
, R-Edgewood. Hall’s bill would force the 90 Texas counties currently employing countywide voting — including Bexar, Harris and Dallas — to scrap those systems.
During an April 20 Senate floor discussion on SB 990, Hall’s logic was elusive. Under questioning from, D-Houston, Hall conceded that he couldn’t point to any clear instances of voter-data breaches due to countywide polling. In the years prior to Bexar County’s adoption of Election Day countywide polling locations, I saw several confused local voters leave polling sites in frustration after being told they went to the wrong precinct.Prior to 2019, if you worked in one end of Bexar County and lived in another, you’d find yourself on Election Day scrambling to get back to your neighborhood precinct after work, when it would have been so much easier to vote near your job.
They have allowed communities to introduce countywide polling pilot programs only after those counties demonstrated that they use a computerized registration list allowing instant verification that a voter has not already voted at a different location.
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