Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson calls Election Day issues at nine voting sites ‘disturbing.’ City refuses to pay county $1.5 million for runoffs
Mayor Eric Johnson said that they’ll never know how many people failed to vote on Election Day.
Signs mark an official polling location outside the George Allen Courts building in Downtown Dallas, during the first day of early voting, on Monday, April 19, 2021.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
7:49 PM on May 12, 2021 CDT
Almost two weeks after Dallas voters were turned away from several polling sites that didn’t open for hours most in South Dallas the city’s elected leaders refused to commit paying nearly $1.5 million for the county to oversee the June 5 runoff elections.