August 12, 2025      9:30 PM

Amid redistricting stalemate, county commissioners around Texas grow concerned about compressed timeline to prepare for 2026 elections

“This map is not my first rodeo,” said veteran Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who told QR “They better get moving if they’re gonna make all of this work”

As the redistricting stalemate plays out from Austin to Chicago, county leaders around Texas – Democrats and Republicans – are growing concerned about their ability to comply with Texas law under a likely compressed if not impossible timeline ahead of elections in 2026.

With no quorum again in the Texas House on Tuesday, Speaker Dustin Burrows again lectured absent Democrats that they were shirking their duties and announced a hotline for people to call and rat them out. He also on Tuesday announced his intention to adjourn Sine Die later this week if no quorum is established in the House by Friday. In that event, Speaker Burrows and Gov. Greg Abbott both said a second special session would immediately start this weekend.

Meantime, veterans of the process at the local level have become concerned that if GOP leadership in Austin can’t speed things up, counties won’t be able to meet deadlines set out in the state’s election laws regarding the redrawing of voting precincts in newly reconfigured congressional districts.

So, for those who have argued that lawmakers can keep things on track as long as a vote on maps happens in the House and Senate before candidate filing period, it’s more complicated than that.

By Scott Braddock

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