Corrections to Our Day One Early Voting Report

After reviewing the early voting turnout numbers posted by the Secretary of State today, we re-examined several numbers we reported last night and realized that we made some mistakes. We obtain same-day voter counts and, in some cases, rosters from county elections...

Campaign News for November 2

Correction: On Tuesday, we erroneously reported that San Antonio business consultant Fernando Padron ran in the 2016 Democratic primary for Bexar Co. tax assessor-collector. He actually ran in the Republican primary. We regret the error and have updated the post and...

Election News for October 5

Correction: In yesterday’s report, we erroneously identified the Williamson County Judge as former Rep. Dan Gattis (R-Georgetown). Judge Dan A. Gattis is of course the father of former Rep. Gattis. We regret the error. AG: The office of Kaufman Co. District Attorney...

Correction: Redistricting Ruling

In yesterday’s post about the redistricting ruling, we inadvertently left HD117, represented by Rep. Philip Cortez (D-San Antonio), and Harris Co. at large off the list of districts found to have defects. We regret the error and apologize for any confusion it caused....

Correction: Cash on Hand

Yesterday, we reported that Sen. John Whitmire (D-Houston) had the third-highest cash-on-hand figure in the state. We overlooked Speaker Joe Straus’s (R-San Antonio) $10.4M on hand, which makes Whitmire’s $8.0M the fourth-highest, trailing Gov. Greg Abbott ($34.4M),...

Correction: House Campaign Finance Update

We realized that we erroneously used Jeff Judson’s January semiannual, rather than his 30-day-out report, in our original analysis of House 30-day-out campaign finance reports. This led us to report erroneously that Judson had out-raised Speaker Joe Straus for...