Voting rights organizers say they are stepping up efforts to counter what they call voter intimidation and attempts to criminalize their members and volunteers.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has aggressively filed charges accusing volunteers, candidates and voters of election fraud. But the cases rarely go to trial.
Among Texas women and Texas Black voters, Harris leads by 50% and 77%, respectively. Meanwhile, likely Latino voters in Texas are almost evenly split: 47% say they’d vote for Trump, while 46% favored Harris. Trump solidly holds his lead with white voters (57%) and men (56%), according to the survey.
A district judge has ruled that the Austin City Council violated the Texas Open Meetings Act when it placed 13 city charter amendments on the Nov. 5 general election ballot.According to a report from KVUE's media partners at the Austin American-Statesman,
A Latino voting organization is calling on the DOJ to investigate a series of raids held across Texas last week as part an ongoing election fraud investigation.
No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994. But the margin between Republicans and Democrats in recent years has been narrowing.
Former Bexar County Democratic Party Chairman Manuel Medina, Democratic Texas House District 80 candidate Cecilia Castellano, and 87-year-old LULAC member Lidia Martinez saw their homes searched.
According to the state, Harris County's 2021-2022 election cycle was impacted by insufficient training, ballot paper shortages and equipment failures.
The oldest and largest Latino civil rights group has asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for the home searches connected his voter fraud probe. In a letter sent Monday to the DOJ’s civil rights division,
The Director of Elections for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office was invited to testify Monday during the Texas House Elections Committee hearing.
The raid appears to be part of a broader investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s election integrity unit. The unit has targeted elderly, Latino Democratic volunteers and multiple Democratic politicians in what critics say is an attempt to intimidate Latino voters weeks before an election.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNTexas will send inspectors to monitor 2024 elections in Harris CountyAn audit by the Texas Secretary of State’s Office found improved elections procedures, but the office is sending monitors because of past problems.
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