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Early voting starts Monday for the runoff in an Alamo Colleges trustee race \u2014 but the polling locations posted weeks ago have changed again, this time at the last minute.<\/p>\n

Read more Student-led forum gives voters a look at Alamo Colleges candidates ahead of runoff<\/a><\/p>\n

A four-way race for the board\u2019s District 9 seat advanced to a runoff between accountant\u00a0Robert Garcia and\u00a0longtime educator Carolyn DeLecour because but no candidate took the 50% support required to win outright in May. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the only race on the ballot on June 13, and only voters who live in Alamo Colleges\u2019 single-member can participate. <\/p>\n

Student-led forum gives voters a look at Alamo Colleges candidates ahead of runoff<\/em><\/p>\n

That means low turnout was already expected, even before the late changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving pulled Encino and Tobin libraries \u2014 those are top voting locations,\u201d Garcia said on Thursday. \u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of elections, but we should have been prepared to have those locations available to us, and we weren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeLecour said Thursday afternoon that she\u2019d also just been notified of the latest changes, and was scrambling to correct her campaign materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve given our voters some of the wrong info, and so now we\u2019re trying to recoup and recover, and make sure that they get the information that they need,\u201d DeLecour said. \u201cIt\u2019s just unfortunate that the elections people couldn\u2019t sort it out. We\u2019re three days from early voting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early voting runs June 1-9, and voters can now choose from three polling centers: San Antonio College\u2019s Victory Center, Northeast Lakeview College and Hope Church. Hours vary by day.<\/p>\n

The same locations will be open again from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on election day, Saturday, June 13.<\/p>\n

Originally, Alamo Colleges expected to have four voting locations for this election, including two Northside libraries that are among the most heavily trafficked polling centers in the county. <\/p>\n

First the libraries were swapped out due to summer reading events, said Elections Administrator Michele Carew. <\/p>\n

Then on Tuesday, one of the substitute locations, Morgan\u2019s Wonderland, alerted her that it would also be unavailable.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOnce we were informed, we updated [the Alamo Community Colleges District] and updated the posted voting locations online,\u201d Carew said. <\/p>\n

Read more about the candidates in the San Antonio Report\u2019s Alamo Colleges Runoff Voter Guide<\/em><\/p>\n

Garcia, who lives on the Northern edge of the district, said it wasn\u2019t fair to cut a location that makes it harder for people in one geographic area of the district to vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating because we already have a low voter turnout,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cNow we\u2019re decreasing the polls, and we\u2019re literally disenfranchising voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeLecour agreed, saying the last-minute poll closure \u201cwill only make it more difficult for people to get to the three locations that are left.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how many voters might turn out to a June runoff with just one race on the ballot.<\/p>\n

In 2020, the District 9 seat went to a runoff between then-incumbent Joe Jesse Sanchez and then-challenger Leslie Sachanowicz, but the board was still holding its elections in November at that point. <\/p>\n

Alamo Colleges board seats were the only races on the Dec. 12 runoff ballot that year, and a total of roughly 4,500 ballots were cast in District 9, where Sachanowicz wound up winning by 66 votes.<\/p>\n

Interest in the first round of this year\u2019s municipal election was already abysmal.<\/p>\n

With about 5,300 total votes cast, Garcia and DeLecour finished just six votes apart.<\/p>\n

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