Following a State District Court ruling, the Texas Supreme Court blocked Harris County Clerk Hollins’ plan to send unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to every voter.
Harris County's election budget will increase nearly seven fold to provide vote-by-mail applications to all voters, drive-thru voting, new outreach, and extra COVID-19 safety precautions for this year.
A two-year investigation uncovered an alleged ballot harvesting scheme in which people with prior forgery convictions picked up batches of mail-in ballots and a number of voted ballots were marked identically.
An advisory from Attorney General Ken Paxton says only those who have contracted coronavirus would be eligible to use mail-in ballots.
Following last week's breaking news that "last in line voter" Hervis Rogers was ineligible to vote due to parole for felony burglary, an official complaint has been filed with the Texas Secretary of State.
National media outlets were quick to seize on Hervis Rogers' story about his hours-long wait-time in Harris County on Tuesday night. New information shows he was ineligible to vote under Texas law.
Harris County commissioners met yesterday with County Clerk Diane Trautman concerning reports of early voting irregularities and possible integrity issues at polling locations.
On the first day of early voting, onsite poll workers in Harris County did not have updated voter registration information and some registered voters were left out of the available database.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and attorney Tony Buzbee are headed for a mayoral runoff in December as county clerk Diane Trautman struggles to provide election results.
Harris County is moving forward with plans to place a polling location inside the county's jail for pretrial defendants to have ballot access.
