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After months of anticipation and partisan fights over election administration, voting in Texas went relatively smoothly on Election Day, with election officials reporting no major disruptions.
More than 9 million Texans cast ballots early in person or by mail, roughly half of the state’s 18.6 million registered voters. Election Day turnout wasn’t immediately available.
As in every election, there were scattered problems or glitches.
Early Tuesday, vandals used spray paint to inscribe pro-Palestinian messages on a polling location in Tarrant County, but the incident didn’t affect the county’s ability to use the location for voting. In Dallas and Bexar counties, technical problems with equipment were reported and resolved early in the day.
In Dallas County, which had more than 400 polling locations, voters with disabilities struggled to find signs directing them to curbside voting, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit voter advocacy group that ran an election protection hotline.Other voters said some Dallas poll workers weren’t familiar with a new law allowing voters with disabilities to move to the front of the line.