At some Tarrant County polling places, long estimated wait times turned out to be inaccurate – Dallas News

At some Tarrant County polling places, long estimated wait times turned out to be inaccurate  Dallas News

North Texas polls close at 7 p.m. The Dallas Morning news has complete results at dallasnews.com/projects/2026/texas-election-results. For weeks, politicians and community advocates have warned the lines at Tarrant County polling places could be prohibitively long on Tuesday, after the county’s top leaders voted to close dozens of voting sites. From a glance at the county’s online wait time tracker, it appeared as if those worst fears were coming true: Throughout the morning and early afternoon of Election Day, a smattering of polling places showed wait times of 30 minutes, an hour, two hours or more. But on the ground, it wasn’t so clear. The Dallas Morning News sent reporters to several locations with listed wait times at 60-plus or 120-plus minutes.

At several sites, voters reported actually waiting a fraction of that time. At East Regional Library, in east Fort Worth, the Tarrant County website listed a wait time of 120-plus minutes in the mid-morning. One voter said he actually waited 10 to 15 minutes, and two other voters said they waited just a few minutes. At least twice on the morning of Election Day, the Betsy Price Community Center in Fort Worth posted a wait time of 120-plus minutes and then, five minutes later, a wait time of 0 minutes. At James Avenue Service Center, one of the few