Dallas-Fort Worth – (WBAP/KLIF) – After massively long lines at some polling places across Texas last week, state lawmakers will hold hearings on the matter.
The Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC) and Texas Legislative Black Caucus (Txblc) will hear from election officials, experts and voters affected by issues at the polls, during hearings this month.
Rep. Rafael Anchia, (right) chair of the MALC said in a statement:
“Texas must quickly fix the problems encountered by voters during Primary Election Day so that we do not see a repeat of these failures during the November General Election. We received reports of limited polling locations, workers and machines, ridiculously long lines, equipment malfunctions and elections website failures.”
Latino activist Domingo Garcia blames Texas Republicans and secretary of state.
“We didn’t see any long lines, we didn’t see any people waiting to vote 7 hours, which happened in Houston, in North Dallas, or in River Oaks or any affluent areas in North Texas.”
Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) made comments on WFAA’s ‘Inside Texas Politics.’
Overall, some 4 million voters cast ballots in the 2020 primary; that’s a quarter of registered voters in the state.
Republicans cast 2,008,385 votes in the presidential contest which was just under turnout from Democrats with 2,076,046 votes.
Early votes account for 2,071,745 of the overall tally, according to the Texas secretary of state’s office.
(Copyright 2020 WBAP/KLIF 24/7 News. This report contains material from the WFAA-TV and The Texas Tribune)
