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By all accounts, the administration of the 2026 primary election in Williamson County was calamitous.
Voters did not know where to vote. Lines were long and chaotic. Election workers made errors and misplaced ballots.
Nearly everyone seems to agree on who’s to blame: the Williamson County Republican Party, which last fall decided to eliminate countywide voting and, for the first time in more than a decade, force all voters to cast ballots at assigned precincts instead. Republicans in Dallas
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