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.

An expanded post-election hand count and an added $14,000 cost for special ballot paper won’t make voting more secure, but they may appease skeptics — for now.

Votec, one of only three companies approved to manage voter registration data, is facing a financial squeeze and asking counties for a 35% surcharge.

The mistakes didn’t affect the outcome, but they highlighted vulnerabilities of a process that proponents are hailing as a model.

Experts say speed of Gillespie hand count raises questions about its accuracy

Election officials, Republican party workers pull all-nighter to report results in Texas county’s hand-counted primary.

For a long time, I didn’t want to think or talk about elections or politics. That changed four years ago.

Jim Riley says he won’t give in to demands from Gillespie County's voter fraud activists.

My first two registration applications seemingly disappeared. Here’s what I had to do to get on the roll in time for the 2024 primary.

A new law aimed to increase voting access in rural counties. In South Texas it’s having the opposite effect.

The law, passed unanimously by Republicans, requires counties that offer countywide voting to increase the number of locations — a nearly impossible challenge in some areas.