/tags/voting-rights Voting Rights en-US Copyright Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:00:00 GMT /government/2024-09-25/voter-registration-challenges-texas-tarrant-dallas-collin-denton In Texas, registered voters can challenge other voter registrations. That's resulted in thousands of challenges, creating extra work for election officials. Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:00:00 GMT /government/2024-09-25/voter-registration-challenges-texas-tarrant-dallas-collin-denton Miranda Suarez, Caroline Love /government/2024-09-12/tarrant-county-commissioners-reverse-course-rejecting-voter-registration-in-county-buildings 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. Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:47:15 GMT /government/2024-09-12/tarrant-county-commissioners-reverse-course-rejecting-voter-registration-in-county-buildings Megan Cardona /news/2024-06-05/tarrant-county-election-integrity-task-force-reports-82-voter-fraud-complaints-no-cases-filed 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. Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT /news/2024-06-05/tarrant-county-election-integrity-task-force-reports-82-voter-fraud-complaints-no-cases-filed Emmanuel Rivas Valenzuela /2024-03-29/texas-appeals-court-overturns-crystal-masons-conviction-5-year-sentence-for-illegal-voting 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. Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:16:04 GMT /2024-03-29/texas-appeals-court-overturns-crystal-masons-conviction-5-year-sentence-for-illegal-voting Karen Brooks Harper | The Texas Tribune /news/2023-10-24/whos-been-punished-for-election-violations-in-tarrant-county-officials-dont-know 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. Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:58:10 GMT /news/2023-10-24/whos-been-punished-for-election-violations-in-tarrant-county-officials-dont-know Miranda Suarez /politics/2023-08-15/latinos-are-the-biggest-ethnic-group-in-texas-but-their-political-power-lags-behind 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. Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:09:03 GMT /politics/2023-08-15/latinos-are-the-biggest-ethnic-group-in-texas-but-their-political-power-lags-behind Ashley Lopez /news/2023-07-24/texas-begins-withdrawal-from-multistate-partnership-to-clean-voter-rolls 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. Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:56:49 GMT /news/2023-07-24/texas-begins-withdrawal-from-multistate-partnership-to-clean-voter-rolls Natalia Contreras, Votebeat and The Texas Tribune /news/2023-05-30/is-texas-next-up-lawmakers-clear-the-way-for-the-state-to-leave-voter-data-group-eric 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. Tue, 30 May 2023 16:51:34 GMT /news/2023-05-30/is-texas-next-up-lawmakers-clear-the-way-for-the-state-to-leave-voter-data-group-eric Ashley Lopez /government/2023-05-16/tarrant-county-democrats-ask-feds-to-investigate-ohares-actions-citing-voting-rights Tue, 16 May 2023 14:28:38 GMT /government/2023-05-16/tarrant-county-democrats-ask-feds-to-investigate-ohares-actions-citing-voting-rights Rachel Behrndt | Fort Worth Report, Emily Wolf | Fort Worth Report /politics/2022-08-30/asian-american-and-pacific-islander-voters-are-preparing-to-sue-texas-for-alleged-discrimination-in 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. Tue, 30 Aug 2022 15:30:00 GMT /politics/2022-08-30/asian-american-and-pacific-islander-voters-are-preparing-to-sue-texas-for-alleged-discrimination-in Andrew Schneider