11,000 college votes in '18 turned Tarrant County purple. Now campus voting may end
ARLINGTON
More than 11,000 votes were cast on local college campuses like UT Arlington and TCU last year — many for Democrats.
Now, county officials have no plans to offer college voting sites for the 2020 election.
Unless extra money is added to the Tarrant County budget, giant campuses like UT Arlington and Tarrant County College will not have campus voting locations, elections administrator Heider Garcia said last week.
County Judge Glen Whitley, a Hurst Republican and UTA graduate, said he wants to have an early-voting location at that campus and “I feel certain that we will.”
But in a county showing off $10 million in new machines, the list of about 40 early voting sites in 2020 tentatively would not include TCU, the University of North Texas medical school or four of the five Tarrant County College campuses. Only TCC Southeast would have a voting site.
The change is partly the result of a new state law.
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