Dallas Co. to change election system - to make it easier to vote.
Voting in Dallas County is going to be a lot easier this November.
Tuesday afternoon, the Commissioners Court voted to switch the county from its present Election Day system, which requires voters to show up to their home precincts to cast ballots, to one that allows Dallas County residents to vote at any polling place in the county.
Commissioners approved the move, which will require the county to jump through several administrative hoops, by a 4-1 vote. J.J. Koch, Dallas' lone Republican county official, voted against the plan, which county staff believe will streamline the voting process, potentially increase voter turnout and decrease the number of voters who end up casting provisional ballots that don't count when they show up to the wrong precinct polling place.
"It is time to come into the 21st century and have an election system that actually works," Commissioner Elba Garcia said. "The main point about vote centers is that we have people, over 3,000 people, that wanted to vote during the last election and they were not able to do it.
- https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-county-voters-soon-to-be-unshackled-from-precincts-11589164
We're already able to vote anyplace in the county on "early voting" so this just makes sense to extend it to election day.
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