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May 3, 2025 - City School Election

Important Dates

April 3 – Last Day to Register to Vote. You can check your registration status and address.
See our FAQs for questions regarding registering to vote.
April 22 – Last Day to Submit an Application for a Ballot by Mail (received, not postmarked)
April 22 – First Day of Early Voting by Personal Appearance
April 29 – Last Day of Early Voting by Personal Appearance
May 5 – Last Day to Receive Ballot by Mail

The Smith County Elections Office’s YouTube Channel will begin live streaming the voted ballots when they are delivered to office in their ballot boxes the evening of May 3, 2025, and will continue to do so 24-hours-a-day until after the votes are canvassed. This is being done to comply with Section 127.1232(b) of the Texas Election Code.

Voting Locations and Times

Early Voting

Early Voting Locations Open Every Day During Early Voting

Heritage Building: 1900 Bellwood Road, Tyler, TX 75701
Lindale Kinzie Community Center: 912 Mt. Sylvan St., Lindale, TX 75771
Main Location The HUB: 304 E. Ferguson Street, Tyler, TX 75702
Whitehouse Methodist Church: 405 W. Main Street, Whitehouse, TX 75791
Winona Community Center: 520 Dallas St., Winona, TX 75792

Dates and Hours

Tuesday – Friday, April 22 – 25 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Monday – Tuesday, April 28 – 29 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Election Day Vote Centers

May 3, 2025 from 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Bullard Southern Baptist Church: 716 N. Houston St., Bullard, TX 75757
Cameron J Jarvis Library: 102 S. Georgia St., Troup, TX 75789
Crossbrand Cowboy Church: 11915 FM 2015, Tyler, TX 75708
Glass Recreation Center: 501 W. 32nd St., Tyler, TX 75702
Heritage Building: 1900 Bellwood Rd., Tyler, TX 75701
Hideaway Member Services Building: 101 Hide-A-Way Ln, Hideaway, TX 75771
Main Location The HUB: 304 E. Ferguson St., Tyler, TX 75702
Jones-Boshears Elementary School: 3450 Chandler Hwy, Tyler, TX 75702
Lanes Chapel Methodist Church: Family Center: 8720 Old Jacksonville Hwy, Tyler, TX 75703
Lindale Kinzie Community Center: 912 Mt. Sylvan St., Lindale, TX 75771
St. Louis Baptist Church: 4000 Frankston Hwy., Tyler, TX 75701
Tyler Fire Department #2: 5505 Old Bullard Rd., Tyler, TX 75703
Whitehouse Methodist Church: 405 W. Main St., Whitehouse, TX 75791
Winona Community Center: 520 Dallas St., Winona, TX 75792

OUR CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES

ECONOMICS

Seven in 10 Texans say they are more worried about finances than they were a year ago and 87% said increased prices have had an impact on their household situation, according to a UT Tyler survey. Rising gas prices, increasing energy costs, lack of available rental properties, and higher grocery bills are extremely troubling to Texans. They are stressed about the economy, cutting back on spending and placing the blame on the policies of President Joe Biden.

FAMILY

Our Texas Constitution, supported by 76% of Texas voters, defines marriage as between one man and one woman. Despite this overwhelming support, efforts to radically change the definition of marriage continue to grow. Activists judges, out of touch elected officials, and unaccountable bureaucrats seek to undermine the clear will of the people and subvert the Texas Constitution. From advocates of homosexual marriage waging war on marriage to public policy that implicitly encourages divorce, the family is under attack on all fronts. Radical groups in Texas are working to drastically undermine the value of marriage and the family by banning public schools from teaching true abstinence education and promoting drug-based sex education that effectively encourages dangerous sexual activity outside of marriage.

FAITH & FREEDOM

Texas progressives attacked religious freedom and the role churches play in creating a “safety net” that government never could—by feeding both the body and the soul. For the principles of limited government and a republican government to succeed, morality must be part of the equation. John Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the second president of the United States, recognized this fact when he wrote to the Massachusetts Militia in 1798: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Or as Benjamin Franklin wrote: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” Progressivism is a master that restricts freedom; conservatism seeks to expand freedom, which can be expanded only if a society is virtuous.

IMMIGRATION

Texan voter’s #1 issue was concerning our porous Texas border. Since the start of Fiscal Year 2021 in October, approximately 900,000 migrants have avoided detection when crossing illegally into the U.S. says the Department of Homeland Security. Half-a-million of those so-called ‘getaways’ happened since October 1, 2022 – and there are still three months left in the fiscal year. Meanwhile, nearly 1.75 million migrants have had run-ins with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the southern border so far in Fiscal Year 2022 – the most of any previous year at this point. Having an open border leads to an influx of deadly drugs coming into the country, undocumented, and thus unidentifiable, sex trafficked women and children, international terrorists and increased gang and drug related criminals. This is taxing on our Texas economy, our society, our schools, our health systems and our city and county law enforcement.