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Denton County public commenters press court on home-precinct election rule
Summary
Two members of the public debated Denton County’s election-day precinct rule at the Dec. 16 commissioners court: resident Jane Scholes urged countywide election-day voting and said GOP voters were disproportionately redirected, while Melinda Preston of the Denton County Republican Party attributed many problems to a Secretary of State software glitch and urged keeping precinct voting.
Jane Scholes, a Robeson Ranch resident, used the court’s public-comment period to criticize Denton County’s election-day “home precinct” voting rule and urged the court to consider countywide election-day voting. "Republican voters were turned away from at least 1 polling location 2 and a half times as often as Democrats on November 4," she said, adding that more than "6,200 redirected voters" were recorded and that nearly two-thirds…
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