The reported figure of 92 is a net number. 149 places where people could vote in 2022 are gone. 56 new ones opened somewhere else.
Christ Cathedral Church, Sagamore Hill Elementary and Victory Temple Worship Center all closed. Nothing replaced them. It is the only ZIP code in the county with no Election Day polling place at all. Fifteen more lost half or more of what they had.
| City | 2022 | 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth | 129 | 89 | −31% |
| Arlington | 59 | 37 | −37% |
| North Richland Hills | 12 | 7 | −42% |
| Bedford | 8 | 4 | −50% |
| Grapevine | 8 | 4 | −50% |
Losses fall hardest on south and east Fort Worth and on central and eastern Arlington. They also fall on Bedford and Grapevine, which each lost half their sites and do not fit that pattern. Both are in the data. Neither is being left out here.
Tarrant runs countywide vote centers. Any registered voter may use any site, so the ZIP code of a closed building is not the ZIP code of the people who voted there. This shows where capacity was withdrawn, not where the affected voters live.
That rules out the obvious next step. Joining Census race data to polling place ZIP codes is an ecological fallacy, and it is the first thing the county would use to discredit the rest.
14 early voting sites were removed and 11 added. The early voting rosters are numbered by the county, so both counts are certain rather than inferred. The five campuses: UT Arlington's Maverick Activities Center, Tarrant County College South, TCC Northeast, the UNT Health Science Center, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Two campus early voting sites survive in the whole county, both Tarrant County College. An amendment to restore UTA, TCC Northeast and TCC South failed 2 to 3. Switch the map above to early voting and filter to colleges.
Texas law says a vote center county must run at least half the precinct polling places it would otherwise have. That floor depends on how many precincts exist, and on August 4 the Commissioners Court combined precincts, which lowers it. The civil rights coalition puts the minimum near 354, leaving 224 sites unlawful by about 130. County Judge Tim O'Hare's own words, that the plan leaves "54 polling places that exceed the statutory minimum," imply a floor of 170 and make 224 comfortably legal. That vote is worth roughly 184 polling places of legal headroom. Neither figure has been independently verified, and the county has not published its arithmetic.
Because any voter may use any site, ZIP-level shading cannot support a claim about who was affected. That needs change in distance to the nearest open site, computed per census block group and joined to survey data at that level. The coordinates below make it possible. It has not been done here.
Sendera Ranch Rancho Canyon Clubhouse in Haslet and Light of the World Church in Keller are absent from both the Census and OpenStreetMap address databases. 431 of 433 records are geocoded and every point was checked against a Tarrant County bounding box.
The county's own 2022 per-location turnout report extracts with its name and count columns misaligned. The join failed a check against a known published value, so it was thrown out rather than published. Whether closed sites actually had lower turnout than retained ones is still open.
Bethlehem Baptist Church has been reported as cut. It appears on none of the four county lists examined. It may have been on the tabled 4 August proposal or an earlier cycle's list.
Disproportionate burden and discriminatory intent are different claims requiring different evidence. Nothing here establishes intent, and nothing here is offered as establishing it.
All of it comes from four documents the county published itself. Every one of the 433 site records is below, 431 of them geocoded.