Today is the first day of early voting for the May 3 elections and our local media sources have some campaign guides and recommendations for you.
As always, I recommend you start by looking at Vote 411, by those notorious pinko commies, the League of Women Voters. It will tell you what’s on the ballot. I only have two elections: Dallas City Council and Richardson ISD trustee. Some folks will have a lot more.
The big voter guides:
- Star-Telegram.
- Texas Tribune
- D Magazine
- Fort Worth Report.
- Local real estate guide Candy’s Dirt has an election page and their elections tag covers most of the Dallas City Council elections.
Some general news about May’s elections:
- D Magazine: Voter-Approved Effort to Move Dallas Elections to November Heads to Austin. This may be my last year to vote in May, at least on City of Dallas business. It’s in the hands of the Lege now.
- KERA: Changes to Tarrant voting precincts won’t impact ballots. Apparently last-minute changes to Tarrant County voting precincts are required under state law.
- DMN: Will Dallas voters show up to the polls for the May 3 city election? In 2023 only 8% of voters showed up for the May elections.
- DMN: Smith: What it’s like to run for local office. Commentary piece about one of the candidates for city Council in McKinney.
- DMN: As early voting begins, Dallas County officials are confident in new check in devices. This is the new software suppllied by KNOWiNK after the old Election System & Software pollbook barfed in the November election and was decertified by the state.
However you’re going to vote, get out there and do it. Election Day is May 3 if you can’t get out there early.