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Many of the amendments are designed to bring the charter in line with state laws. Author: Scott Eslinger (12NewsNow) Updated: 1:36 PM CDT April 27, 2021 BEAUMONT, Texas — Voters in the City of Beaumont wont only be voting on a new mayor and in five city council races in the May 1 election. The City of Beaumont has 16 propositions to make 16 amendments to the citys charter. You wont see the city campaigning for any of the amendments as state law doesnt allow an...

Unsecured voting machines found during campaign event in Shallowater Voting machines found unsecured in Shallowater By Blair Sabol | April 23, 2021 at 8:58 PM CDT - Updated April 23 at 10:58 PM SHALLOWATER, Texas (KCBD) - Alderman David Brugel hosted a campaign event at the Shallowater Community Center last Friday, a place that is also used as an early voting location. During the event at the Center, also known as The Clubhouse, several voting machines lay behind an unsecured door. County ...

Critics said they find it “unbelievable” Republican lawmakers would adopt a bill to make it less safe to vote during the pandemic. Demonstrators stand across the street from the federal courthouse in Houston, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, before a hearing in federal court involving drive-thru ballots cast in Harris County. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — Texas state Republican lawmakers Wednesday advanced a bill that would bar drive-thru voting, legislation critics say is aimed a...

Here’s how Texas elections would change, and become more restrictive, under the bill Texas Republicans are pushing Texas Tribune Updated:  Tags:  Like Republicans across the country, Texas lawmakers are pushing to enact sweeping changes to state voting laws, including new restrictions on how and when voters can cast ballots. At the forefront of that campaign is Senate Bill 7, a legislative priority for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick that has already passed the Senate and awaits action in the House. T...

April 19, 2021 at 1:33 p.m. In drafting SB 7, Senate Republicans made clear some of its proposed restrictions are meant as a response to voting initiatives implemented by Harris County for the 2020 election, but the proposed new restrictions would apply across the state. Regulating voting hours Currently, counties with a population of 100,000 or more must provide at least 12 hours of early voting each weekday of the last week of early voting. In Texas, the early voting period usually...

Heres how Texas elections would change under the bill Republicans are pushing Chron 1 hr ago © Ken Herman, TNS Like Republicans across the country, Texas lawmakers are pushing to enact sweeping changes to state voting laws, including new restrictions on how and when voters can cast ballots. At the forefront of that campaign is Senate Bill 7, a legislative priority for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick that has already passed the Senate and awaits action in the House. The wide-ranging legislation touc...

Fact-checking Texas Republicans claims around state voting laws CNN 4 hrs ago By Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam and Samara Lipman, CNN © JUSTIN HAMEL/AFP/AFP via Getty Images TOPSHOT - A woman casts her ballot in the 2020 general election inside the Basset Place Mall in El Paso, Texas on November 3, 2020. - The US started voting Tuesday in an election amounting to a referendum on Donald Trumps uniquely brash and bruising presidency, which Democratic opponent and frontrunn...

Fact-checking Texas Republicans’ attacks on Harris County voting procedures The Texas Senate passed new voting legislation on April 1. As the bill goes through the state House, corporations like Dell Technologies and American Airlines — both based in Texas — have started advocating against it, arguing that it restricts voter access. To justify many of the changes in the law, Texas Republicans are pointing to 2020 election practices in Harris County, which includes Houston, arguing that th...

Grieder: GOP’s lurch to belligerent populism should have voters on edge By Erica Grieder, Staff writer There was a time when business leaders held real, and sometimes critical, influence over the Republican Party of Texas. It would be hard to argue that time is over, given that state leaders continue to treat the private sector with mysterious deference when it comes to, for example, reforming the state’s power sector in the wake of the winter freeze that left millions witho...