Last week, a state district judge ruled that the county must operate 388 polling sites. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX VotingRights Midterms2022 2022elections
second time the county lost a lawsuit
over its proposed number of polling stations. In 2020, a separate Texas Civil Rights Project suit forced the county to operate 302 polling stations. County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen, who initially planned on opening only 267 sites this election, told TPR that it's been difficult finding people to work the polling stations. The average age of a poll worker in Bexar County is 71 years old.saying during a September press conference
that many of the closed polling stations had only a couple of voters during the last election. She's also said new rules allowing voters to cast ballots outside their precincts justified cutting the number of sites. Despite those justifications, commissioners Tommy Calvert, Rebeca Clay-Flores and Justin Rodriguez criticized Callanen's efforts to cut the number of polling stations in underserved communities on the East, South, and West sides, according to TPR.
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