Possible cut of Tarrant County early voting locations causes controversy

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Possible cut of Tarrant County early voting locations causes controversy
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Controversy is brewing over a failed vote last week to approve a list of early voting locations in Tarrant County, with critics calling it 'voter suppression.'

to approve a list of early voting locations in Tarrant County , with new versions of the list and its approval process being called"voter suppression" by critics.

Now, O'Hare has called a special meeting to discuss three versions of early voting location lists, each with 46 to 48 locations.Dallas juvenile detention center isolated kids and falsified documents, state investigation says “All of these proposals have one thing in common—one insidious thing in common, and that is, they make it more difficult for young people to vote, and they make it more difficult for people of color to vote. And that’s what this is about," said Texas State Representative Chris Turner.

“I took it for granted at first, but when I got to start doing the research and see whoever’s in office and see how they control what we do as citizens of the United States, I was like, okay, maybe I should take this a little more seriously," Oluwemimo said.

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