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Tag: harris votes

Election 2020

4 Ongoing Legal Battles That Could Make It Harder To Vote In Texas

Elizabeth Trovall

Posted on October 26, 2020 · Local elections officials, voting rights advocates and Texas Republicans are entangled in multiple legal battles that impact access to the ballot.

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Election 2020

Undecided Latina Voters In Texas Weigh Their Options Ahead Of 2020 Election

Elizabeth Trovall

Posted on October 21, 2020 · Millions of Texas voters have set early voting records at polling locations throughout the state. Despite fervent early turnout, some remain undecided about who they’ll choose for president.

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Elections

12 Reasons It’s Harder To Vote In Harris County

Elizabeth Trovall

Posted on May 22, 2019 · Texas ranks 44th nationwide in registering eligible voters and Harris County lags behind those registration rates by 5-12%. That and other research show a pattern of poor civic engagement -- and policies that make it harder to vote locally and statewide.

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Texas judge blocks state’s pre-Roe ban, allows some abortions to continue

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, The Texas Newsroom

Posted on June 28, 2022 · The 1925 law at the core of the case was in effect until the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. It made performing an abortion punishable by up to five years in prison.

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How a Harris County ‘jury appreciation week’ event led to a murder mistrial

Paul DeBenedetto

Posted on June 22, 2022 · A defense attorney argued speakers made prejudicial statements to the jurors, which included comments about seeking “justice” for families of violent crime victims.

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Chronicling a crisis in American democracy (June 16, 2022)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on June 16, 2022 · On Thursday's show: New York Times correspondent Jonathan Martin discusses his book, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future. And we visit Juneteenth historical sites in Galveston.

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Jan. 6 hearings, and a billion-dollar bond proposal from Harris County (June 15, 2022)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on June 15, 2022 · On Wednesday's show: In a double dose of our weekly political roundup, we recap the Jan. 6 hearings and find out why county leaders are proposing a billion-dollar bond package. And we visit Harris County’s Emergency Operations Center at Houston TranStar.

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