Even though voters elected 2 commissioners from each party, in 2025 O'Hare led a mid-decade vote to redraw the Commissioner District lines. The new lines were drawn to give O'Hare's party a decisive 3 to 1 advantage, substantially reducing the power of Democratic votes in the county. "This is about Republican versus Democrat, period," he told WFAA, Dallas's ABC station.
The redistricting caused public outcry: more than 200 people signed up to speak, most of them against it. Two months later, in August 2025, O'Hare and the Republican commissioners voted to cut Election Day polling places from 331 to 216 and nearly half of early voting sites. In September 2026, they cut again: this November's midterm will have 224 Election Day sites, down from 316 in the 2022 midterm. They said it would save money and make elections more efficient. They also cut free bus rides to the polls for low-income residents, with O'Hare saying, "I don't believe it's the county government's responsibility to try to get more people out to the polls."
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O'Hare’s take on Texas values
In September 2026 he voted to cut polling sites by 92 from the 2022 midterms, and in 2025 he pushed a redrawn county precinct map that two lawsuits say is racial gerrymandering; he also launched a county 'election integrity task force' in 2023 despite rare fraud cases. [Texas Tribune, Sep 1 2026; Fort Worth Report, 2026 and Feb 8 2023]