Community and advocacy groups in Tarrant County, Texas, are rallying to get voters to the polls after county officials shut down dozens of early and Election Day polling locations weeks before the 2026 midterms.

The county's five-member Commissioner's Court voted in September to cut 92 polling locations -- from 316 in the 2022 midterm elections to 224 this year -- and the decision caused an uproar in the community.

Tarrant County, which is located in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, is the biggest county in the state of Texas that President Donald Trump won in the 2024 presidential election with 51.86% of the vote, state election data shows.…