Commissioners approve 2 new election precincts

The Hays County Commissioners Court approved the creation of two new election precincts during its regular meeting March 9.

The commissioners court is required to review county election precinct boundaries to keep them in compliance, according to the Texas Election Code, which allows a maximum number of registered voters per precinct of 5,000.

The elections administration office found two precincts between Driftwood and Wimberley to be approaching that maximum.

Precinct 333 which had approximately 4,111 registered voters and Precinct 449 which had around 4,755, not including voters in suspense, have now been split into Precincts 320 with 1,760 registered voters, Precinct 333 with 2,440 registered voters, and Precinct 449 with 2,770 and Precinct 450 with 2,090. Voter registration changes daily so numbers reported will fluctuate daily.

“The only thing they will notice as different is that they'll be issued a new voter registration card and it’ll have a different precinct,” Hays County Elections Administrator Jennifer Anderson said.

Congressional lines and their jurisdictional lines don’t change through this process.

“What it may do is add a vote center, because we have to be in balance of our precincts so it could add a vote center when we get to that point,” Anderson said.