The Texas attorney general filed a similar lawsuit earlier this week against Bexar County, which includes San Antonio.
The move escalates a brewing fight with Republicans over initiatives to proactively send applications to unregistered voters.
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.
The Texas attorney general filed a similar lawsuit earlier this week against Bexar County, which includes San Antonio.
The move escalates a brewing fight with Republicans over initiatives to proactively send applications to unregistered voters.
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.
The Texas attorney general’s office said it’s investigating vote harvesting. Activists called it “intimidation.” No charges have been filed.
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office launched an investigation into an allegedly improper voter registration effort.
Texas Secretary of State’s Office will send election inspectors to Harris County, the state’s most populous, in November.
State and federal laws protect voters from being improperly removed from the rolls if someone questions their eligibility.
Laura Pressley claims to have found a way to link voters to their ballots. But she won’t make it public, and experts says her proposed solution could make things worse.
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.
The action comes after Votebeat and The Texas Tribune confirmed that some voters’ choices can later be identified through legally available records.
‘What we're seeing right now is that conflict between transparency and secrecy.’
The public has wide access to a trove of records that, in some cases, can be used to figure out exactly how someone voted. Election administrators want that fixed.
The decision is unlikely to affect cases the judge has overseen, but nobody knows for sure.
Forms related to address changes and ID can trip up voters — and workers — at the polling place.
Gillespie County documents show election worker expenses for the primary more than doubled from 2020. And they’re likely to grow.
Right-wing challengers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ into their complaints about how elections are conducted.