AUSTIN — Texas Secretary of State John Scott todayreleased the second installment of ‘SOS 101,’a series of videos educating voters about election administration in Texas ahead of the November 8, 2022 General Election. In the video, Secretary Scott provides an overview of voting systems in Texa...
For example, there’s no way we could afford a school nurse at each building like we have today. We’d be lucky to have one nurse for all four buildings in the district – elementary schools, middle schools and the high school. If a student feels sick, there’s not much I could do...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has vetoed a bipartisan bill, House Bill 3159, that aimed to expand vote-by-mail access for individuals with disabilities, particularly those who are blind or paralyzed and require assistance marking their ballots. Advocates argue that the veto is a setback ...
Austin, Texas, 26 July, 1918. These rules clarified that only white men and women would be allowed to vote in the first Democratic primary to follow the passage of Women's Suffrage, despite the thousands of women of color who had registered to vote for this election in Texas. ...
If you’re picking up your necessaries anyway, take the extra hour, stand in line, and vote early, because election day is going to be a monstrous nightmare of lines and breaking systems and Texas has really gone out of its way to close the voting sites more convenient for the people ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The possibility of Texas Democrats staging a second walkout to again stop one of America’s most restrictive new voting measures grew louder Saturday, as hundreds of people waited hours to rail against the GOP’s plan in the largest turnout this year at th...
John Scott: I don’t think there is anything we are going to find in our audit of the 2020 election that would have changed anything about it. Joe Biden won the election back then and he still would have won the election, and Donald Trump won the state of Texas and I don’t think...
Susan A. MacmanusJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.National Civic ReviewBullock, Charles S., III and Susan A. MacManus. 1990. "Voting Patterns in a Tri-Ethnic Community: Conflict or Cohesion? The Case of Austin, Texas, 1975-1985." National Civic Review 79:5-22....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats sued Texas elections officials Thursday in an effort to stop a new ban on straight-ticket voting in 2020, claiming that long lines on Super Tuesday hinted at problems to come in November.
Before being sidelined with an oblique injury, Joey Gallo was in the midst of a breakout campaign that had him in the MVP hunt, thanks in large part to a .276 batting average -- 63 points above his career mark -- to go with the power we've come to expect from the Texas slugger. ...