Dec 6, 2016 | Campaign News
Runoffs: Early voting in person is ongoing in some jurisdictions holding runoff elections on Saturday (or other dates) and has ended in others. Runoffs were required for some city, school district and other local district offices for which no candidate received a...
Oct 25, 2016 | Campaign News
PRES: The Dallas Morning News’s Jamie Lonegrove tweeted total campaign contributions to presidential nominees from Texas in the last three election cycles. He determined that Hillary Clinton’s $18.3M is almost equal to Barack Obama’s 2012 efforts ($18.6M) and ahead of...
Oct 11, 2016 | Campaign News
Campaign Finance. Today was the deadline for 30-day-out campaign finance reports from candidates for statewide, legislative and other state and local offices for which reports must be filed. We expect most of these reports will be available online from the Texas...
Sep 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
TLR Endorsements: The Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC announced its endorsements for the general election. All but one of the endorsed candidates are Republicans, and all but one of them running for statewide or legislative office have a Democratic opponent and are...
Sep 19, 2016 | Ads, Campaign News
Voter ID: U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos sided with the Voter ID suit plaintiffs who argued that state election officials were misleading voters about court-ordered remedies to the Voter ID law. She ordered the state to accurately describe the procedures a...
Aug 22, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter ID: In a filing, the state informed the federal judge overseeing the ongoing Voter ID litigation that it will “seek Supreme Court review of the Fifth Circuit’s opinion.” Further, the state argued that the district court should not go forward with “further...
Aug 4, 2016 | Campaign News
HD92: The League of Women Voters hosted a candidate forum tonight at the Hurst Public Library. Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R-Bedford), his Democratic challenger Kim Leach, and Green Party candidate Travis Christal participated. Videos posted to social media showed it to...
Jul 28, 2016 | Campaign News
Updated to correct an error in the date of the HD146 precinct chairs’ meeting. HD120 open: As of 3 p.m. today, no one had used the court-ordered “reasonable impediment affidavit” because they lacked required photo identification during the first four days of...
Jul 27, 2016 | Campaign News
HD120 open: A total of 36 people voted in person today in the HD120 special runoff election between independent Laura Thompson and Democrat Lou Miller, bringing the three-day total to 119. The total does not include ballots by mail, of which there are likely to be...
Jul 21, 2016 | Campaign News
Voter Fraud Investigation. The Secretary of State’s Director of Elections has asked the Attorney General for “assistance in reviewing allegations of criminal activity in Hill County elections.” A complaint filed by Philip Harris of Direct Action Texas alleges that as...
Jun 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Citizens of the United Kingdom yesterday voted in a national referendum on Thursday to determine the country’s future with the European Union. As of the time of this writing, the election is too close to call [Update: Leave 52%, Remain 48% with turnout north of 70%]....
May 9, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC open: The Dallas Morning News made no endorsement in the Republican runoff between former Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Center) and Gary Gates. The paper endorsed Grady Yarbrough in the Democratic runoff. SD24 open: The Dawn Buckingham campaign released a new radio ad...
