Early voting begins Tuesday for the June 10 runoff elections featuring a race for a seat on the Dallas City Council.
The early voting period runs through June 6. Sixteen locations will be open in Dallas County, including nine in Dallas, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. next Monday and Tuesday.
The number of locations will expand to around 60 sites on Election Day, which are scheduled to be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Among the races that still need to be decided in June is who will represent southwest Dallas’ District 3 on the Dallas City Council. Radio talk show host Joe Tave and pastor Zarin Gracey emerged as the top two vote getters to succeed term-limited incumbent council member Casey Thomas, but neither gained more than 50% of ballots cast to win the seat outright in the May 6 election.
Gracey, a first-time candidate, has previously worked for the city, has been an advisor for Thomas and has been endorsed by the incumbent. Tave is seeking his first election to the City Council in his fifth attempt. He previously ran for a council seat in 1999, 2007, 2015 and 2017. Gracey received 46% of the vote and Tave got about 26% in their five-person race.The District 3 contest is the only Dallas City Council race voters didn’t decide in May, when they reelected the mayor and all eligible incumbents, and elected a new representative to an open seat for northeast Dallas’ District 10.
Also on the June 10 ballot for some voters is the race for the District 2 seat on the Dallas ISD board between longtime education volunteer Sarah Weinberg and small business owner Jimmy Tran. Both emerged as the leading candidates in a three-person race to succeed incumbent board trustee Dustin Marshall, who announced in February that he wouldn’t seek re-election.
In May, Tran received about 40% of the vote and Weinberg got 37%.
Dallas County voter turnout was low in the May 6 election. Officials said 8.8% of eligible voters cast ballots, which ranks lower than the past two municipal elections in 2019 and 2021 and well short of recent county projections of 10%. Voter turnout was in the 9% range in 2019 and 2021.
