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Aransas County selects option 1 for precinct redraw, adopts three-digit precinct numbering
Summary
The commissioners chose Option 1 to redraw county voting precincts (reducing to seven voting precincts) to avoid immediate costs, and approved a new three-digit precinct numbering system to reduce voter confusion; staff estimated Option 2 could require opening additional polling locations and cost roughly $40,000 or more.
Aransas County Commissioners Court voted to instruct the county judge and elections administrator to communicate the court's preference for county voting-precinct redrawing as Option 1 and to adopt a three-digit precinct-numbering system.
"The county Republican Party strongly supports option number 1," Katie Jackson, county party chair, told the court, citing lower administrative burden and lower cost. County elections staff…
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