The PEOPLE Must Stand Up and Fight Back - Our Vote!

Tarrant County has 1.3 million registered voters.
The Commissioners Court wants 176 Election Day polling sites for November 2026.
That's a 45% cut from 2022.
This is not "efficiency." This is voter suppression.

Tarrant County has 1.3 million registered voters, a record. The Tarrant County Commissioners Court is responding to that growth by shrinking the map.

In 2022, Tarrant County had 316 Election Day polling sites and 50 early voting locations for 1 million registered voters.

  • By November 2026, they're proposing just 176 Election Day sites and 42 early voting locations for 1.3 million registered voters. Those are cuts of roughly 45% and 16%, respectively, from 2022 levels.
  • That's few sites than Tarrant County had for the 2022 PRIMARY election much less the General.


    • This is not a budget decision. This is a political decision. And the people of Tarrant County get the final say in court, in the press, in the streets, and at the ballot box.

    They cut the sites. We grow the turnout. That's the work and that will be our story.

    Election Day Sites from See It Name It Fight It.


    Early Voting Sites from See It Name It Fight It.

    THE CONTEXT YOU SHOULD KNOW

    This didn't happen in a vacuum. The voting site cuts are part of a broader pattern in Tarrant County:

    1. Mid-cycle redistricting (June 2025): The Commissioners Court voted 3-2 to redraw county precinct boundaries; something that's normally done once a decade after the census. Judge O'Hare told WFAA: "This is about Republican versus Democrat, period." The new map is widely understood to make Commissioner Simmons's seat easier for a Republican to win.

    2. Free bus rides to the polls canceled: The Commissioners Court cut funding for a program that gave low-income voters free transportation to polling sites. O'Hare said: "I don't believe it's the county government's responsibility to try to get more people out to the polls."

    3. Voter registration restricted: Commissioners prohibited outside organizations from registering voters inside county buildings after Republican Party leaders raised concerns about "left-leaning groups."

    4. "Electoral integrity" unit an example of misuse: O'Hare launched a county unit to investigate voter fraud. In its first year, it received fewer than 100 allegations of fraud, and produced no major cases.

    5. State-level pressure: A new Texas law passed in May 2025 reduced the minimum number of Election Day voting locations counties must offer from 347 down to 212. Tarrant County's proposed 176 would put it below even that lower floor.

    Put it all together: When you shrink the map, cut the bus rides, restrict registration, and redraw your own district mid-cycle, you are not running elections — you are managing who gets to participate in them.

    This is what we tell them when they try to shrink the electorate: we grow the electorate instead.

    The People's Commissioners Court will not stop. Neither will the people of Tarrant County.