A vote by Republican grassroots activists in Gillespie County to hand-count ballots during the next primary election prompted a change in the Central Texas county’s GOP leadership. Tuesday night, Bruce Campbell was elected chairman of the Gillespie County Republican...
On the anniversary of Texas’ most infamous stolen election, citizens in a North Texas county called for changes they believe will make their local elections more secure—including a return to hand-counted paper ballots. August 28, 2023, marked the 75th anniversary of...
Harris County’s embattled Elections Administrator, Clifford Tatum, will soon be out of a job due to a new law passed by the Texas Legislature that abolishes his appointed position and returns election duties in the state’s most populous county to two elected...
A federal judge ruled that Texas election officials cannot reject mail-in ballots with wrong or missing identification numbers. U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez found that the voter ID requirement violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Rodriguez agreed with the...
After a Travis County judge temporarily blocked election security legislation from going into effect, the office of the Texas Attorney General has filed an appeal. Travis County’s 250th State District Judge, Democrat Karin Crump, ordered a temporary injunction against...
New documents filed by Harris County Judge candidate Alexandra Mealer claim that 32,000 “likely illegal ballots” were counted in her contested November 2022 election—more than her opponent Lina Hidalgo’s margin of victory. Mealer, a Republican, lost her race against...
Williamson County Elections Administrator Chris Davis resigned Wednesday following an hours-long closed meeting of the county’s Election Commission. The five-member commission voted unanimously to accept Davis’ resignation. No reason was given for why Davis resigned...
A voting rights trial is underway now in Galveston County that could impact redistricting across Texas and beyond. Following the 2020 census, Galveston’s Republican-led county government redrew its four commissioner precincts in a way that makes it less likely the...
Three Houston mayoral candidates—U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, State Sen. John Whitmire, and local attorney Lee Kaplan—illicitly accepted campaign funds during a period prohibited by city law. Houston campaign finance law dictates that after the city awards a...
A former Republican candidate is calling on the Texas secretary of state to take a more active role in Harris County elections following the botched 2022 season. The widespread voting issues in the 2022 Harris County November election led Republican Alexandra Del...
A new court ruling says the Biden administration has disregarded the First Amendment, after pressing social media companies to censor conservative views. Federal Judge Terry Doughty of the Federal District Court of Louisiana issued a broad preliminary injunction...
In an attempt to block new legislation, Harris County is suing Texas in order to halt an election security measure from going into effect. Until 2020, Harris County elections were administered by the county clerk. Then, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and the...
In a move that has ignited a firestorm of controversy, Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a measure aimed at expanding the voting rights of disabled Texans. The measure’s vague wording would have put the election system at more risk of malfeasance. The veto of House Bill...
As Gov. Greg Abbott finishes signing legislation from the regular 88th Legislative Session, he approved two Republican-backed measures to reform elections in response to Harris County’s chaotic 2022 election. Authored by State Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R–Houston), the...
Tarrant County has hired Clint Ludwig as the new elections administrator for the county. Ludwig has worked as chief deputy of the Tarrant County Clerk’s office for the past six years, overseeing technology transitions. He’s also a decorated U.S. Marine Corps combat...
Federal officials have agreed to meet with Democrat representatives in North Texas over claims that elected Republicans are threatening minorities’ voting rights. U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey (D–Fort Worth) sent a letter in May asking the U.S. Department of Justice to...
The Texas Attorney General’s Office is once again investigating voter fraud in South Texas. Project Red TX, an organization that recruits and supports Republican candidates for local- and county-level political offices, revealed Thursday that Attorney General Ken...
Election integrity advocates chalked up a handful of wins during the state’s regular legislative session. Now, with an unknown number of special sessions yet to come, more progress is possible this year—if Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and grassroots conservatives can...
Republican legislation inspired by a series of election fiascos in Harris County is drawing threats of lawsuits from local Democrat officials—before it’s even been signed into law. Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee announced Wednesday the county plans to...
As the end of the legislative session looms in the coming days, a proposed constitutional amendment requiring a person to be a U.S. citizen to vote in Texas elections has died in the House. Senate Joint Resolution 35 by Brian Birdwell (R–Granbury) would have amended...
