After listening to 4 hours of public comment, an effort to do away with early voting sites at several college campuses failed. Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare was the lone vote against.
Tarrant County commissioners listened to four hours of public comment before approving a list of early voting sites that will include college campuses.More than 100 people signed up to voice their concerns at Thursday’s Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting over a plan to cut some of the campus locations.Ultimately, an effort to do away with early voting sites at several college campuses failed. It was a 4-1 vote in favor of keeping all eight early voting locations at college campuses.
Some opponents of the measure accused O’Hare of voter suppression, noting the intent to leave intact a voting location at TCU, a conservative and majority-white university.O’Hare reasoned the college sites were too close in proximity to other sites and a waste of taxpayer money."I think they were not expecting over 150 people to show up," said UTA student Rogelio Meixueiro. "I think that shows you that this county is changing.
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