County commissioners called for a special meeting on Tuesday after a judge ruled that the county needed to operate 388 polling sites. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX BexarCounty VotingRights Midterms2022 2022Elections
after a state district judge last week ruled that Bexar County must operate 388 Election Day voting sites.
However, the Texas Organizing Project, which also successfully sued Bexar County over the number of polling stations in 2020, agreed that 302 polling stations, the same number of sites as during the last election, was acceptable. Initially, County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen only planned on opening 267 sites on Nov. 8, arguing that during the last election, several underutilized polling stations saw only a couple of voters.that opening additional polling sites would be difficult due to ongoing staffing issues.
The approved list of polling sites includes a host of university campuses, including Our Lady of the Lake, Texas A&M San Antonio, St.
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