May 12, 2021 |
Last year throughout the month of June LGBTQ Pride Month here in the U.S. a brightly-colored rainbow flag centered with a white star and the seal of the city of Dallas flew atop the flag pole at City Hall for the first time. The council approved the flag specially designed for the city by Tracy Nanthavongsa at its regular meeting on Wednesday, June 17, and ordered that the flag be flown from the flag pole on City Hall Plaza for the rest of that month and throughout every June thereafter. The flag was raised over City Hall for the first time during a special ceremony the next day, Thursday, June 18.
Dallas Polling Sites Were Down for Hours on Election Day We’ll never know, I suspect, how many people literally did not get to vote in this election that wanted to, Mayor Eric Johnson said.
By Alex Macon
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May 12, 2021
5:58 pm
Snafus downed
at least 10 9 polling locations for as many as four hours during Dallas City Council elections on May 1, showing that there were more Election Day problems than had been previously reported. [
Update: 9 polling locations were temporarily closed, with other issues reported at two others; the original headline of this story has been changed to reflect that.] This emerged Wednesday as City Council members grilled Michael Scarpello, the county’s election administrator. They further decided in a 11-3 vote (one council member was absent) to tell off the Dallas County Elections Department by refusing to pay it to run the upcoming runoffs scheduled for June 5.
Early numbers in Dallas
Dallas City Council member Omar Narvaez is running for a third term in District 6
Two ballot initiatives and fourteen council seats were on the ballot in today’s Dallas municipal election. Runoffs are expected in a number of the races because of the large number of candidates that ran. Every incumbent had a challenger.
Of particular interest in the LGBTQ community is District 13. Leland Burk, who is gay, is running against Gay Donnell Willis who runs the Turtle Creek Park Conservancy.
Two gay city councilmen are up for re-election Chad West in District 1 is running for a second term and Omar Narvaez in District 6 is running for his third. Mayor Pro Tem Adam Medrano, who represents District 2, was not able to run for re-election due to term limits.
How Much Does a Dallas City Council Vote Cost?
I broke down the election results by the amount spent by candidates to earn each vote. The data show that money isn t everything in Dallas City Council races.
By Peter Simek
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May 4, 2021
2:35 pm
As the results of the city council election were coming in Saturday night, a familiar storyline took shape. There were plenty of intriguing political subplots building up to the election. And now we have weeks of limbo as we await a staggering six runoff races that will determine the make up of the next council. But the big takeaway was low turnout.