Early Primary voting 2024 opens today throughout Dallas County and is being run by the Dallas County Elections Department.
The Texas Elections chief, the Secretary of State Jane Nelson reported almost 18M voters on the registration rolls.
Voters must choose whether they want to participate in the Democratic or Republican primary. Voters who signed petitions for ballot access for Green or Libertarian candidates are ineligibile to participate in other party primaries.
The deadline to register to vote was February 5.
Early voting for the primary elections will run through March 1.
Early Primary Voting 2024
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Almost 18M registered voters are on the rolls in Texas for the 2024 Democratic and Republican Primary on March 5, 2024.
Texas Elections Chief, Secretary of State Jane Nelson announced Texas has 17,948,242 million registered voters. The last day to register in time for the primary election was February 5.
“Nearly 18 million Texans are registered to vote, and my office and election officials across the state are working to make sure all Texas voters are ready to cast a ballot,” said Secretary Nelson.
Early voting for the primary elections begins Tuesday, February 20, and runs through March 1.
“Early voting is a convenient way to cast your ballot and avoid the rush of Election Day,” said Secretary Nelson.
She continues, “Now is a good time to plan when you will vote and decide what form of photo ID you will bring to the polls.”
During early voting, Texans may cast a ballot at any polling location in their county of registration.
Voter ID Required For Almost 18M Registered Voters
When casting a ballot in person, voters are required to show one of the following approved forms of photo ID:
Texas Driver License
Texas Personal Identification Card
Passport
Texas Handgun License
Military Identification Card
Citizenship Certificate
Texas Election Identification Card
Voters who do not possess and cannot reasonably obtain one of the seven approved forms of photo identification may still vote.
Voters will be asked to fill out a Reasonable Impediment Declaration at the polls and present an alternative form of identification. Those alternative identifications include a utility bill, bank statement, government check, or a voter registration certificate.
Voter Choice
During the primary elections, voters will need to indicate in which party primary they want to vote.
Voters who signed a petition for a candidate from the Libertarian or Green Parties are not eligible to vote in the primary.
For more information on ID requirements and voting deadlines, please visit VoteTexas.gov for official information or call 1-800-252-VOTE.
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Today is the day for a number of candidates as primary runoff voting 2022 happens today! Voting locations are open from 7:00AM to 7:00PM.
Dallas County Elections reminds voters that if they did not vote in the primary election in March the voter is eligible to vote in either runoff.
If a voter participated in a party primary election, they are only eligible to vote in that runoff.
Primary Runoff Voting 2022 Races Of Interest
The following are some of the races we will be following tonight after returns start coming into local election offices.
TX30
In TX30 – a reliably blue district – we will find out who will replace Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, likely for decades.
Jasmine Crockett nearly won the primary outright, but since then has faced a host of charges showing she took money from Trump supporters offshort and has had a number of ethical challenges.
Her opponent, Jane Hope Hamilton has meanwhile been lining up support from the traditional black community including endorsements from Sen. Royce West and a number of state house representatives.
TX32
The Democratic side of the ballot is handled as Rep. Colin Allred will represent Democrats on the November ballot, but the GOP side is still up in the air between Antonio Swad and Justin Webb.
Insiders are predicting an easy win for Swad, but a wild card exists in Brad Namdar.
Namdar who placed fifth out of six candidates in March was the subject of a Dallas Morning News expose stating he had visited an escort for purposes of sex. He denied these allegations until recently when Current Revolt published a piece outlining his admission and then recant of the admission.
Current Revolt was able to obtain video of Namdar with the escort in question.
Several people have come forward to say Brad Namdar is being investigated by law enforcement at this point which makes the post above from yesterday odd. We reached out to Justin Webb’s campaign to ask if Namdar was endorsing him and if so, why wasn’t he announcing it.
His opponent, Swad, has recently received the endorsement of two of his challengers, Darrel Day and Nathan Davis.
In recent weeks we have had several “persons” reach out to Other Side Dallas to defend Namdar all with different names, but with the same IP signature – indicating not only the same location, but same device.
Neither Swad nor Webb’s campaigns returned emails seeking comment on Namdar’s most recent post.
HD114
Democrats in the new HD114 will choose before former Congressman John Bryant and former Republican Alexandra Guio.
Bryant was known for getting things done and a progressive member of Congress whereas Guio is only known as a former Republican and the city redistricting commission appointee of Paula Blackmon before ghosting her and her staff after announcing her run for HD114.
Commissioners Court 2
The Dallas County Commissioner’s Court race for Democrats has gotten spicy also as charges exist that Andrew Sommerman essentially bought endorsements by donating to other candidates.
Sommerman claims he is a voting rights attorney, but there is no evidence of him taking voting rights issues to trial and at least two sources indicate Sommerman attempted to remove his female opponet from the ballot.
