Tarrant County Polling-Place Cut Triggers Texas Voting Rights Fight Ahead of Midterms

Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico is pressuring Tarrant County to drop a plan that would close 92 polling places used in 2022, a move critics say would suppress turnout in poorer and minority communities ahead of the November midterms; while county officials say the closures save money, civil rights groups warn the scale of cuts could disenfranchise voters, and the vote follows a pattern of GOP efforts to shrink polling sites and tighten voting rules in the state.