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Texas Legislature approves bill to ease polling place requirements for countywide voting
Both chambers of the Texas Legislature have passed a bill intended to roll back a 2023 law that required certain counties to drastically increase the number of polling locations — even in areas where buildings were scarce and funding wasn’t available to fully equip them.
The bill is now headed to the governor’s desk and set to become law.
Votebeat has reported that election officials in several counties said they were struggling to comply with the 2023 law as written.
Senate Bill 985 is set to take effect in September.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/13/texas-countywide-voting-polling-places/