City Stole County Seat
August 20, 2026
Ysleta residents remembered the 1883 transfer of the El Paso County seat as the “big swindle,” when El Paso won the election and shifted the county seat from Ysleta, helping launch the city’s boom. The vote was widely regarded as manipulated: El Paso reportedly cast far more ballots than its…
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