Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson led the push to refuse the county’s new payment request.
“In a low turnout election like these council races are, some of them being decided by a couple of dozen votes, you should be outraged at this. We re paying for this,” Johnson said.
The Mayor had endorsed District 7 candidate Donald Parish Junior, who finished third on May 1 by just 25 votes to miss the opportunity for the June runoff.
The run-off will include second-place candidate Kevin Felder, the district’s former council member, and incumbent Adam Bazaldua.
Several of the late opening polling places were in District 7.
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