Natalia Contreras

Natalia Contreras

Reporter, Votebeat Texas

Natalia Contreras has covered a range of topics as a community journalist including local government, public safety, immigration, and social issues. Natalia comes to Votebeat from the Austin American-Statesman, where her reporting focused on impacts of government policies on communities of color. Natalia previously reported for the Indianapolis Star, where she helped launch the first Spanish-language newsletter, and at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Natalia was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas.

The plan calls for the county to identify eligible voters and send them registration forms. GOP officials say it’s an end-run around state law.

Experts caution against concluding that the totals are a sign of widespread illegal voting.

Coming upgrades would allow counties to do without outside vendors, officials say.

Texas Secretary of State’s Office will send election inspectors to Harris County, the state’s most populous, in November.

After ‘activist rulemaking’ in Georgia, experts are still confident officials can thwart local efforts to interfere with finalizing presidential results.

State and federal laws protect voters from being improperly removed from the rolls if someone questions their eligibility.

The burden will fall on local election officials to determine which records they’re obligated to release or redact.

The request to the U.S. Department of Justice comes after Texas undermined ballot secrecy in the name of election transparency.

Registered voters in 96 Texas counties cast ballots at vote centers on election day. Scrapping that option could have costly implications.