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In Texas, registered voters can challenge other voter registrations. That's resulted in thousands of challenges, creating extra work for election officials.

Tarrant County commissioner Gary Fickes requested a special meeting to rescind his vote cast at a previous meeting which would have allowed voter registration to take place inside county buildings.

An update of Tarrant County's Election Integrity Task Force on Tuesday reported 82 voter fraud complaints. But no cases have been filed in 15 months.

Mason gained national attention after she was convicted for voting while under supervised release for felony tax fraud. She said she didn’t know she was ineligible to vote.

Tarrant County’s Election Integrity Task Force formed in February. The county can’t say how many tickets have been issued due to task force investigations.

Latinos in Texas have eclipsed non-Hispanic whites as the dominant ethnic group in the state, but the group's political power has yet to catch up.

A new GOP-backed state law requires Texas to create its own version of a cross-check program or find a vendor that doesn’t cost more than $100,000.

Texas is on its way to being the latest — and largest — state to leave a bipartisan data sharing partnership that states across the country use to cross check their voter rolls.

The lawsuit, which a judge has combined with a similar suit by Latino and Black voters, will go to trial at the end of September, too late to affect this year’s midterm elections.

Democrats in Texas feel they have a real chance of winning several big elections in November, including the governor’s race. But delegates want stronger, more cohesive messaging.

Mason said she didn’t know she was ineligible to vote when she cast a provisional ballot in 2016, but she was sentenced to five years. Now, the Court of Criminal Appeals says an appellate court that affirmed her conviction must look again at the evidence of Mason’s intent.