Dallas County elections official promises full review after problems closed some polling places for hours Saturday
Six sites had issues with voting, including three in an area where there was a hotly contested race for the District 7 City Council seat.
After volunteers at one of the busiest polling places in South Dallas had to turn voters away for nearly four hours Saturday when voting machines stopped working, Dallas County’s top elections official is vowing to review what happened.
The issues occurred during municipal elections when 14 seats for the Dallas City Council were on the ballot, including a hotly contested race in District 7, which is in South Dallas.
Early voting numbers released in Dallas municipal elections
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One More Look at Campaign Finance Reports Before Election Day
Incumbents are out-raising their challengers, which wasn t the case a month ago. Get informed and go vote on Saturday.
By Alex Macon
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April 30, 2021
9:09 am
Are you going to vote Saturday? Not many people are. But you’re not many people. You’re you. You’re on this stuff. You’ve read all about Mayor Eric Johnson. The mayor, isolated for much of his first two years on the council, is not on the ballot. But he’s inserted himself into several races in an apparent effort to bring some allies into City Hall. You’ve learned what, exactly, those confusingly worded city of Dallas ballot propositions mean. You know those campaign mailers about defunding the police are a lot of noise without much substance. You know a lot’s at stake, from thefuture of public transit to the city’s environmental health to building permits to basic infrastructure. A lot of federal money is also coming ou