Cameron County elections officials endorse countywide voting, set early-vote and polling sites for May 3 special election

Cameron County election officials on Monday reviewed the first countywide election held in November 2024, approved a recommended list of early-voting and Election Day locations for a special joint election on May 3, 2025, and voted to ask the commissioners court to continue the countywide polling-place program after receiving designation from the Texas secretary of state.

The county’s Elections Administrator, Remy, summarized the November 2024 election and the rollout of countywide voting: “there were a hundred and 1 precincts in Cameron County. We had a total of 68 polling locations,” and the report listed 238,649 registered voters and a turnout percentage of 49.13 percent. Remy said the county used DS300 scanners at 24 early-voting sites and DS200 scanners at all Election Day locations, and that ballot-on-demand printers and ADA-compliant ballot-marking devices were available at all sites.

The presentation stressed voter adoption of the countywide model: Remy noted that many Election Day sites served mostly voters from outside the site’s home precinct — for example, “Harlingen Cultural Arts … 95 percent of the people who voted there were outside of their precincts,” and the Brownsville Public Library likewise saw 93 percent of voters coming from outside the library’s precinct. Commission members said those patterns — and the elimination of some provisional ballots — supported continued…