Harris County aims to expand countywide polling to general elections

Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday voted unanimously to apply for state approval to expand the use of countywide polling places to general elections.County Clerk Diane Trautman said a trial run of the system during the low-turnout school board elections in May was successful. Trautman’s goal since taking office in January has been to implement countywide polling, in which voters can cast ballots at any location rather than their assigned precincts, in high-turnout general electio