Democrats who used to control the county commission made many of the Democrat precincts small to make oversight of Democrat precincts more difficult. I was an alternate judge on election day. Only 88 people voted where I was working, and we had 2 precincts combined at the polling place with about 2500 registered voters combined. On Padre Island there were Republican precincts that had over 100 voters the first hour and had lines all day. Nueces county spent over $1 million on the November 4 elections, and there are lots of precincts that could be combined to cut costs and make supervision and poll watching easier. In early elections, we could eliminate the number of permanent and mobile early voting precincts. We have 3 permanent precincts downtown within walking distance of each other. There are polls at CCISD headquarters, Nueces County Courthouse, and Corpus Christi City Hall. The 100 foot no electioneering limits of the CCISD and county courthouse locations overlap each other. There are lots of opportunities to cut the cost of elections without impacting the ability of registered voters to vote.
Yep sounds like you can combine and cut cost. Just as long as you provide enough poll
workers and voting machines so that voters don’t have to wait a long time.