Dallas County Elections officials say voters should plan to vote anywhere in the county for the May 26 primary runoff elections, despite a legal filing seeking to restore precinct-based voting.
Barry Wernick, who is a precinct chair for the Dallas County GOP and the party’s nominee for Dallas County Commissioner Precinct 2, which includes the Park Cities and parts of Preston Hollow, called for restoring precinct-based voting in a filing in the Fifth District Court of Appeals. Wernick avoided a runoff back in March and will face incumbent Democrat Andy Sommerman for the Commission seat in November.
In the filing, Wernick, seeks to “compel Respondent Paul Adams, Election Administrator of Dallas County, to conduct the May 26, 2026 Republican Primary Runoff Election using precinct-based, Election Day voting, as required by the December 31, 2025, Election Services Contract executed between the CEC and the Dallas County Elections Department, and to disregard the purported First Amendment to that Contract signed without authorization by the CEC’s former chair, Allen West, before he resigned,” court documents show…