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Matters of election administration and ease of voting during an ongoing pandemic were heavily litigated in Texas in 2020. Harris County, the most populous one in Texas, spearheaded a number of innovative approaches and was the focal point of several legal challenges. For the 2020 elections, Harris County Commissioners approved a budget of $33 million, higher than the $4 million budget for the ...
Nine of the 10 drive-thru polling sites in Texas' Harris County were shut down on Election Day following a series of legal challenges by a Republican group seeking to throw out nearly 127,000 ...
Ultimately, Harris County recorded roughly 1.4 million early votes in the 2020 presidential election — the highest number in its history. [27][28] This was the first year that drive-thru voting and 24-hour voting sites were options for voters in a presidential election in the county. [29]
Teneshia Hudspeth, the Harris County Clerk in charge of local elections, told county commissioners in January that the county must now add more than 100 polling places compared to the number in ...
The 2020 Texas House of Representatives elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Texas voters elected state representatives in all 150 of the state house's districts. Primary elections were held in March 2020. [1] The winners of this election served in the 87th Texas Legislature. Two seats changed hands, both in Harris County, one Democratic flip and one Republican ...
The 2020 election was famously marred with accusations of malfeasance, and my prominent people are watching polling places with a keen eye.
After a federal court in Houston ruled Texas' congressional redistricting practices as unconstitutional in Bush v. Martin, effective with the 1966 elections, Harris County was split between three congressional districts. In addition to the existing 8th and 22nd districts, a new 7th district was created on the west side of Houston and Harris County.
Bexar County elections officials believe the baseline should be the number of polling places open previously. The Chronicle reported that Bexar County opened 302 polling places in 2018 and 2020.