Posted on · A five-month investigation by Houston Public Media found there were problems with Harris County’s elections that stretched over multiple years under the leadership of both parties, but little evidence that those problems may have tilted election outcomes.
Posted on · Republicans are seeking fresh elections in nearly two dozen contests, alleging Election Day woes cost them thousands of votes, but a surge in Democratic registration and long-term demographic trends provide simpler explanations for GOP losses.
Posted on · The post-election analysis by the Harris County Elections Administrator’s Office could not yet determine whether alleged paper ballot shortages had kept people from voting, as the Harris County Republican Party has charged.
Posted on · Houston-area Republicans Mike May and Erin Lunceford, who both lost their races on Nov. 8, are asking for the results to be invalidated and for new elections to be held.
Posted on · Ogg reportedly asked state authorities for assistance in an email Monday, the same day the governor called for an investigation and the Harris County Republican Party sued the county's elections administrator.
Posted on · The county missed about 6,000 Democratic and 4,000 Republican votes.
Posted on · The physician and conservative activist has long had an outsized influence on local and state Republican politics – funded in large part by GOP candidates and officeholders
Posted on · “It’s curious to me why the Secretary of State started enforcing this law once I took office and not before."
Posted on · The Houston Chronicle reports complaints against Woodfill accuse him of taking money from clients’ trust accounts.
Posted on · Republicans say the registration challenges were nonpartisan, but some of those who were challenged feel otherwise.
Posted on · Democrats and Republicans voted in roughly equal numbers over the first six days of early polling. But for the GOP, that amounted to only an 11 percent increase over four years ago
Posted on · Three years ago, opposition to President Barack Obama boosted Republican voter turnout. GOP officeholders elected then are up for reelection with Donald Trump in the White House.
Posted on · From the lowest voter turnout in more than 20 years, to The Heights ending it's old prohibition policies -- our panel of non-experts discusses The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly of this week’s news.