Competition is steep for where the county should place voting locations, but law enforcement officials say the idea could help overworked jail staff vote.
County officials say they'll push for the addition of a polling site within the Bexar County Adult Detention Center.Members of the Bexar County Commissioners Court, along with a coalition of voting rights activist groups, are asking the county Elections Department to put a voting location in the county jail this November.
This year voting rights activists are working to open voting locations in jails across the state, including Dallas County,While the idea has the support of Bexar County Commissioners Tommy Calvert and Justin Rodriguez, who plan to bring it up at their meeting Tuesday, it comes as the county’s Elections Department is already feeling stressed about a November election officials say could see unusually high turnout.Success! You're on the list.
to consolidate her department’s resources at the busier locations. Callanen did not respond to a request for comment Friday about adding a voting location at the jail.has had a voting location in its jail since 2021, and its elections staff has consulted with Bexar County Commissioners on how it might work to do the same here.jail effort, said inmates who qualify for mail-in ballots continued to vote that way, while inmates who are booked after the deadline used the voting center in the jail.
Sheriff Javier Salazar, who is a member of the Elections Board, has been working closely with MOVE on the efforts to bring a voting location into jail. Aaron Arguello, a San Antonio-based organizer for the voting advocacy group MOVE Texas, which is pushing for jail voting centers across the state, said their effort in Bexar County has benefitted greatly from the support of law enforcement.
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