Who decides election sites / polling locations?
Generally, when there is just one election, the political subdivision will decide where it wants the polling sites to be. In Bexar County, the County Elections Administrator usually selects the sites for a given election. This is because other entities contract with the County for their elections and ask the County to do so in order to use essentially the same sites as the County does for their elections. Entities holding elections, however, often indicate where they want the polling places to be. This is often true with elections for school boards or school bonds. This process becomes more complicated when there are combinations of elections, or joint elections on the same date. Entities should use the same election sites as the previous “like” election, i.e. the last school bond issue or the last Presidential Primary. But, it is not always possible to do that because of population growth, precinct splits, construction on a former polling site, political party requests, or neighborhoo
