Hundreds of voters in the Dallas area have been turned away from polling locations and sent to other precincts to cast their ballots, Kardal Coleman, chairman of the Dallas County Democratic Party, told CNN.
Dallas County will extend voting hours by two hours, according to county elections spokesman Nicholas Solorzano.
Polls in Dallas County will now stay open until 10 p.m. ET. Most of the rest of Texas closes at 8 p.m. ET, with El Paso and far West Texas closing at 9 p.m. ET.
Talarico said an extension was needed to “ensure all Texans’ voices are heard in this critical election.”
Republican officials in those counties opted to run a precinct-based primary election, ending the practice of countywide voting on Election Day.
_skulls_ on
Ah plan is already in place. Just another piece to continue to have all maga run things.
B-Z_B-S on
So, this is the first trick the GOP is using to suppress voters. The Republican Party knows so many people who usually don’t vote, will vote because they hate what this explicitly Republican administration is doing. If the GOP doesn’t suppress voters, they know they will lose in a landslide.
samhit_n on
A few people who live on the other side of my community had their polling places changed because they barely got put into a different precinct. It’s creating a lot of confusion and preventing both Talarico and Crockett supporters from voting.
Horton_Takes_A_Poo on
Is an assigned polling place not normal in a lot of states?
literallytwisted on
This kind of cheating is one of the republican traditional types of cheating, Democrats who manage to vote can expect their ballot to be challenged by a conservative front group.
They haven’t been able to win without cheating since the early 90s at least, They really are a minority in the country and their biggest fear is everyone figures that out.
aranasyn on
It’s not fckin confusion if the GOP is doing it on purpose. It’s malfeasance.
tinyE1138 on
It’s very simple.
Poling places for people living rural areas can be found in forty conveniently accessible locations throughout the greater Dallas and outlying areas.
Polling places for people living in urban areas can be found in one place, located at the bottom of a derelict mine shaft, eighty miles outside of Austin.
OneLake8007 on
I thought everyone voted by precinct? If their voting place was changed, then there should have been some kind of notification sent out by somebody, but this is government we’re talking about. I always triple check my polling place and my registration status a million times before voting, but maybe that’s just me
sidjohn1 on
This is why it’s important to vote early, if there are ay issues you still have time to fix it.
cpod_the_elder on
A Republican run state can’t run a smooth election?? I thought we had the mechanics of that mastered a long time ago. Oh, wait, we did until Republicans fucked things up including hurdles for non-existent voter fraud.
Stonks303 on
Does Texas not mail out your polling location with a ballot sample?
Edit: I’m in another state and have only voted by mail for over 20 years, but I thought Google also had a tool tell you where your polling location is.
SuckMyBandAids on
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Choice-of-SteinsGate on
Republicans have been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump’s ‘big lie” of a stolen election.
To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing state troops and deputizing trigger happy and unaccountable ICE thugs in order to centralize authoritarian control over US cities and urban areas; a paramilitary presence he plans to utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.
Republicans continue to exploit the misinformed. They’ve taken advantage of the ignorance, the partisanship and the mindless distrust of their voters to give themselves the legal authority to challenge election results while granting their party more power, control and supervision over our election system.
They have the capability now to deny, subvert, legally contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.
Republicans are consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.
This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.
On top of all of this, Republicans are trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.
Republicans have the gall to say they’re “protecting the integrity of elections,” while making every effort to subvert the vote, purge voter rolls of democrats, deny election results, crudely redraw maps, limit voter participation, make voting more challenging, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.
Republicans have all but succeeded at diverting attention away from their continued efforts to erode the democratic process.
They have also been scapegoating immigrants and marginalized communities of people who they urge you to blame the nation’s problems on; including manufactured issues like rampant “voter fraud.”
Turns out, Republicans are the REAL threat to “election integrity.”
And as far as this obsession with enacting voter ID law goes, it’s nothing short of a DECEPTION.
What’s really dishonest and blatantly corrupt about this whole campaign is how Republicans misrepresent voter ID as a concept and more important than that is how Voter ID is only one of many restrictive policies that Republicans are desperately trying to implement to suppress the vote to their advantage.
Give them the chance to pass legislation like the “SAVE Act,” and they will capitalize on the opportunity to roll back voting rights and impose widespread restraints. Voter ID just acts as a smokescreen and this is a compelling reason for obstructing their poorly disguised efforts to subvert elections and suppress the vote.
When it comes to “protecting the integrity of our elections,” voter ID is at the bottom of the list.
Republicans will say that voter ID policy is backed by bipartisan support, but what they won’t tell you is that they advocate for strict requirements which would exclude most basic forms of ID.
Americans support using these basic forms of ID to vote, but there is no data showing support for narrower requirements. This is because these requirements would act as an obstacle, not a preventative measure.
astrocrass on
It’s not even just “confusion over rules.” The official Texas State Government website *listed the wrong polling place* for me, consistently.
Something smells rotten.
fauxkaren on
The rules are working as intended then.
railroadedBySpez on
I voted in Williamson county. This was the situation: 420k voters registered in the county. The Democrat polling location was 10 miles away from the county seat of Georgetown, inside the main atrium of a retirement community. 13 precincts were routed to this one location. There were ~250 people jammed into a makeshift line when we arrived at 1p. There was definitely a fire hazard as a result. We saw 8 people leave without voting due to work time constraints. There were 2 working voting machines when we got there out of 3 on-site. My SO contacted a county observer volunteer who got 5 more machines delivered onsite, and it still took us 2.5 hours to vote. The line was 25% longer when we left. I can’t imagine what it looked like after 4p.
Th3FinalStarman on
Republican voting suppression in full speed.
Harkonnen_Dog on
Hispanics trying to vote?
Radically-Peaceful on
Election interference by Republicans, right?
aimless_ly on
November preview
ChaoticSenior on
Really feel sorry for any sane people who live in the shithole red states.
TheFleshMaster on
We’ve exporting democracy so much that we have none left.
mrbeck1 on
What a shocker.
obi-jawn-kenblomi on
Allen West, I am not surprised.
poison_us on
Bug report closed – working as intended.
ctguy54 on
And so it begins.
totesuncommon on
Nuthin says a ratfucked election like a texas election. The one-star state.
RoutineCowMan on
Voter suppression by their hands
SynnReborn on
I was told today my vote probably won’t count after I was sent to 3 different polling places.
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Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico on Tuesday called for an extension of voting hours in Dallas and Williamson counties, after reports of voters being turned away from polling places amid [confusion over rules](https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/dallas-voter-rule-confusion-texas-primary?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit) requiring voters to cast ballots at assigned polling locations.
Hundreds of voters in the Dallas area have been turned away from polling locations and sent to other precincts to cast their ballots, Kardal Coleman, chairman of the Dallas County Democratic Party, told CNN.
Dallas County will extend voting hours by two hours, according to county elections spokesman Nicholas Solorzano.
Polls in Dallas County will now stay open until 10 p.m. ET. Most of the rest of Texas closes at 8 p.m. ET, with El Paso and far West Texas closing at 9 p.m. ET.
Talarico said an extension was needed to “ensure all Texans’ voices are heard in this critical election.”
Republican officials in those counties opted to run a precinct-based primary election, ending the practice of countywide voting on Election Day.
Ah plan is already in place. Just another piece to continue to have all maga run things.
So, this is the first trick the GOP is using to suppress voters. The Republican Party knows so many people who usually don’t vote, will vote because they hate what this explicitly Republican administration is doing. If the GOP doesn’t suppress voters, they know they will lose in a landslide.
A few people who live on the other side of my community had their polling places changed because they barely got put into a different precinct. It’s creating a lot of confusion and preventing both Talarico and Crockett supporters from voting.
Is an assigned polling place not normal in a lot of states?
This kind of cheating is one of the republican traditional types of cheating, Democrats who manage to vote can expect their ballot to be challenged by a conservative front group.
They haven’t been able to win without cheating since the early 90s at least, They really are a minority in the country and their biggest fear is everyone figures that out.
It’s not fckin confusion if the GOP is doing it on purpose. It’s malfeasance.
It’s very simple.
Poling places for people living rural areas can be found in forty conveniently accessible locations throughout the greater Dallas and outlying areas.
Polling places for people living in urban areas can be found in one place, located at the bottom of a derelict mine shaft, eighty miles outside of Austin.
I thought everyone voted by precinct? If their voting place was changed, then there should have been some kind of notification sent out by somebody, but this is government we’re talking about. I always triple check my polling place and my registration status a million times before voting, but maybe that’s just me
This is why it’s important to vote early, if there are ay issues you still have time to fix it.
A Republican run state can’t run a smooth election?? I thought we had the mechanics of that mastered a long time ago. Oh, wait, we did until Republicans fucked things up including hurdles for non-existent voter fraud.
Does Texas not mail out your polling location with a ballot sample?
Edit: I’m in another state and have only voted by mail for over 20 years, but I thought Google also had a tool tell you where your polling location is.
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Republicans have been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump’s ‘big lie” of a stolen election.
To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing state troops and deputizing trigger happy and unaccountable ICE thugs in order to centralize authoritarian control over US cities and urban areas; a paramilitary presence he plans to utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.
Republicans continue to exploit the misinformed. They’ve taken advantage of the ignorance, the partisanship and the mindless distrust of their voters to give themselves the legal authority to challenge election results while granting their party more power, control and supervision over our election system.
They have the capability now to deny, subvert, legally contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.
Republicans are consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.
This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.
On top of all of this, Republicans are trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.
Republicans have the gall to say they’re “protecting the integrity of elections,” while making every effort to subvert the vote, purge voter rolls of democrats, deny election results, crudely redraw maps, limit voter participation, make voting more challenging, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.
Republicans have all but succeeded at diverting attention away from their continued efforts to erode the democratic process.
They have also been scapegoating immigrants and marginalized communities of people who they urge you to blame the nation’s problems on; including manufactured issues like rampant “voter fraud.”
Turns out, Republicans are the REAL threat to “election integrity.”
And as far as this obsession with enacting voter ID law goes, it’s nothing short of a DECEPTION.
What’s really dishonest and blatantly corrupt about this whole campaign is how Republicans misrepresent voter ID as a concept and more important than that is how Voter ID is only one of many restrictive policies that Republicans are desperately trying to implement to suppress the vote to their advantage.
Give them the chance to pass legislation like the “SAVE Act,” and they will capitalize on the opportunity to roll back voting rights and impose widespread restraints. Voter ID just acts as a smokescreen and this is a compelling reason for obstructing their poorly disguised efforts to subvert elections and suppress the vote.
When it comes to “protecting the integrity of our elections,” voter ID is at the bottom of the list.
Republicans will say that voter ID policy is backed by bipartisan support, but what they won’t tell you is that they advocate for strict requirements which would exclude most basic forms of ID.
Americans support using these basic forms of ID to vote, but there is no data showing support for narrower requirements. This is because these requirements would act as an obstacle, not a preventative measure.
It’s not even just “confusion over rules.” The official Texas State Government website *listed the wrong polling place* for me, consistently.
Something smells rotten.
The rules are working as intended then.
I voted in Williamson county. This was the situation: 420k voters registered in the county. The Democrat polling location was 10 miles away from the county seat of Georgetown, inside the main atrium of a retirement community. 13 precincts were routed to this one location. There were ~250 people jammed into a makeshift line when we arrived at 1p. There was definitely a fire hazard as a result. We saw 8 people leave without voting due to work time constraints. There were 2 working voting machines when we got there out of 3 on-site. My SO contacted a county observer volunteer who got 5 more machines delivered onsite, and it still took us 2.5 hours to vote. The line was 25% longer when we left. I can’t imagine what it looked like after 4p.
Republican voting suppression in full speed.
Hispanics trying to vote?
Election interference by Republicans, right?
November preview
Really feel sorry for any sane people who live in the shithole red states.
We’ve exporting democracy so much that we have none left.
What a shocker.
Allen West, I am not surprised.
Bug report closed – working as intended.
And so it begins.
Nuthin says a ratfucked election like a texas election. The one-star state.
Voter suppression by their hands
I was told today my vote probably won’t count after I was sent to 3 different polling places.