Ask and you shall receive. In April, we called for officials to ramp up pressure on drug traffickers who are flooding the North Texas market with dangerous.
More than half of the money raised and spent between April to May has been in Northwest Dallas’ District 13 and District 14, which covers parts of downtown, .
Early voting has begun
May 24, 2021 |
Early voting for municipal runoffs has begun. Six Dallas City Council races, the Fort Worth and Arlington mayors races and two Grand Prairie City Council races are among those to be decided.
Among the Dallas races are both Oak Lawn seats Districts 2 and 14. The Preston Hollow seat that dips into Oak Lawn along Inwood Road District 13 is also up for grabs.
Dallas County has gone to a voter center method of voting meaning if you live in Dallas County, vote at any voting center. If you live in the city of Dallas but not in Dallas County, check with Collin or Denton counties where to vote.
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.