According to the Courier of Montgomery County, Montgomery County’s continuous growth has been the impetus for changes of boundaries for 25 precincts and the formation two new voting precincts for the elections in November.
At the commissioners’ regular Tuesday meeting, boundary changes were agreed to regarding the 13th and 28th voting precincts which resulted in a new 112th voting precinct.
In order to establish a new 113th voting precinct, the court agreed to divide Precinct 39. The two new voting precincts are located in Precinct 2.
Montgomery County is home to 412,519 registered voters. Voting precincts are forbidden by state law to have over 5,000 voters.
In order to vote in the upcoming November 7th election, residents must be registered by October 10th. On October 23rd, early voting begins.
To conform with the changes in the precincts, County Judge Mark Keough passed along that the county has an adequate amount of voting equipment.
The old voting machines for the county, purchased in 2005, were eventually replaced by the purchase of about 2,000 new ones in October of 2021. The cost was $8.1 million.
The Verity Voting 2.5 by Hart Intercivic Incorporated, according to Judge Keough’s Chief of Staff, Jason Millsaps, is the Texas Secretary of State’s Office and Texas Attorney General’s office approved machine for tabulating votes.
Millsaps says the machines cannot be tampered with.
