A woman hustled down Camp Bowie Boulevard toward the UNT Health Science Center’s interdisciplinary research center just after noon on Monday.
The school’s polling station had moved to a building further down the street since the last election cycle, her husband had told her. The line was long — a bit to her surprise — but she was unbothered.
“This is pretty unusual,” the Fort Worth resident said cheerfully, not breaking her stride. “Or I should say in this neighborhood.”
Inside the lounge, a line of dozens of soon-to-be voters snaked around a stairwell and glass-paneled rooms.
HSC’s voting site was one of at least a dozen across Tarrant County to clock wait times longer than 45 minutes over the course of the morning and late afternoon on Monday, Oct. 21, the first day of early voting in Texas.
Eager and eligible voters have until Nov. 1 to cast their ballots early for the Nov. 5 general election, from the presidential race to the county sheriff.
Tarrant election officials anticipated the rush.
“We expected we would have very high turnout today since it is the first day to vote early,” county election administrator Clint Ludwig wrote in a statement to the Star-Telegram.
