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Alisa Simmons

Alisa Simmons

Oct 26, 2026

13:14
I can vouch for that.
13:16
Yep.
13:17
Over at the South Service Center in Arlington is where I was on Monday.
13:24
And polls closed at 5.
13:26
Guy came out there and sat in his chair to stop people from coming.
13:29
There were so many people we had to tell, you can't, it's 5 today.
13:35
But I left from there 6.45 because I was talking to people in line.

14 MINS LATER

27:23
All of that goes
29:29
Huh.
29:30
Uh, commissioners bodies in Texas are, uh, five-member bodies.
29:34
And so they said that all through redistricting, redistricted my seat, and, um, you know, cracked it and packed more Democrats and minorities into Precinct 1, which is decidedly, uh, Democrat.
29:49
So, um, so they did that, and then in 2024, they began trying to cut back, uh, polling places, uh, college campuses, uh, uh, specifically.
30:05
And in 2025, uh, the majority court was successful in cutting back, uh, polling places for our November 2025 constitutional amendment election.
30:16
And so now you've got this, this big midterm coming up and, hey, they just went for the gusto, uh, a- to cut polling places.
30:26
So in the midterm of 2022, we had, uh, 316 polling places.
32:09
And I guess the competitiveness of that race and the other races in the state this year seem to have Republicans very worried, particularly in your county.

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