Posted on · The Election Administrator’s Office reported that 19% of the ballots in the March primaries were rejected due to Senate Bill 1 compared to 0.3% in the 2018 primary election.
Posted on · Danielle Keys Bess referenced unproven "rumors of mail-in ballot harvesting" in her demand, prompting her opponent Jolanda Jones to criticize her as going "full Trump."
Posted on · Bun B and Kan Franklin, lead singer of The Suffers, have joined together to throw a drive-in concert at NRG Park, and your voting questions answered by the experts.
Posted on · Local elections officials, voting rights advocates and Texas Republicans are entangled in multiple legal battles that impact access to the ballot.
Posted on · The state is continuing to fight a Travis County district court's ruling that overrode Gov. Greg Abbott's order limiting counties to one absentee ballot drop-off location.
Posted on · The federal appellate court had halted a lower court's ruling to allow multiple mail-in ballot drop-off locations across the state.
Posted on · On Friday's Houston Matters: The latest on reopening bars, what you need to know before heading to the polls, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week’s news, and the 25th anniversary of Wishbone.
Posted on · Harris County, the state’s most populous and a major Democratic stronghold, had designated a dozen locations where voters could deliver their own ballots — and already began collecting them this week.
Posted on · State district judge R.K. Sandill rejected the state's request for a temporary injunction to bar Harris County from pursuing its mailing plan.
Posted on · The Texas Democratic Party had challenged the state's age limits on voting by mail, arguing that they violated the 26th Amendment's protections against voting restrictions that discriminate based on age.
Posted on · Paxton told Houston Matters host Craig Cohen that the Harris County Clerk cannot mass mail vote-by-mail applications on his own initiative.
Posted on · At issue: whether election officials in Harris County and elsewhere broke the law by telling voters fear of contracting COVID-19 was a valid reason for requesting an absentee ballot.
Posted on · In their suit, a group of Texas voters and civic organizations claim that four Texas absentee voting rules are unconstitutional during a public health crisis.
Posted on · The move comes as many counties, including Harris County, prepare for an expected massive increase in absentee ballot requests due to the coronavirus pandemic
Posted on · Concerns abound that fear of the disease could depress voter turnout or prompt election workers to stay home, experts say.