Harris County Again Amends Election Law, Keeps Polls Open Two Hours

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Harris county, whose unilateral election law changes in 2020 prompted the state legislature to pass laws creating uniform election law across the state, is again making changes to its local election laws. It is unclear whether they received State sanction to do this.

Yesterday, one of the final days of early voting, Harris County election officials kept the polls open until 10 p.m., two hours after they were scheduled to close. The change was announced on Twitter and other venues by local media. The Harris county election office announced that nearly 75,000 people had voted on the second to last day of early voting.

The Harris County election office is still under investigation for election irregularities in 2020. It's supervisor of elections resigned in 2021 from the scandal-plagued office. The county is the third largest in the entire nation, and is a heavily Democratic enclave.

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Texas Democrats Want Federal Monitors During Election

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With Democrats panicking just days before what is expected to be a Republican tsunami at the polls, they’re pulling out every device in their bag of tricks to stave it off.

In Texas, this effort may take the form of direct intervention in the election by the now hyper-weaponized Biden Justice Department in Harris County, America’s third-largest county, which is home to Houston, America’s fourth-largest city. There, the Justice Department has been asked by the local Democratic machine to intervene in the November election by sending federal monitors. 

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GOP Congressional Candidate Witnesses O'Rourke Violating Election Law At Polling Place

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Republican Candidate For Congress #MonicaDeLaCruz (@monica4congress) Caught @BetoORourke Red-Handed Illegally Electioneering At A Polling Location In #SanJuan #Texas inside the restricted polling markers outside a polling place in front of the San Juan public library. 

A video posted on Twitter showed De La Cruz angrily denouncing O'Rourke's speech inside the restricted zone to an unidentified person on the telephone, and to polling site officials.

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Former Democrat Candidate Defeated In a South Texas Border Election Mocks "Uneducated" Hispanic Voters

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A former Democrat candidate had said that Hispanics are voting for Republicans like @CasandraLGarcia, @monica4congress, and @MayraFlores2022 because they're "uneducated."

That's a quote from former Democratic candidate Dan Sanchez, who was defeated by Republican Flores in a special election earlier this year in a South Texas District that is heavily Hispanic.

The quote, from an unattributed article posted on Twitter, had Sanchez quoted as saying that Flores, "was appealing to the Hispanic, uneducated voter because she was from Mexico. And she was quote-unquote, the American dream," said Sanchez.

Flores, in a Fox News interview said she believes voters chose her because “I’m one of them and I’m also standing up for our values. God, family, our community. That’s who we are in South Texas. We’re all about hard work.”

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Abbott And O'Rourke Both Express Support For Gambling

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With support from both sides of the political spectrum, there is a good chance that legalize gambling could be coming to Texas.  

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic opponent, Beto O’Rourke, are willing to talk about bringing limited gambling in Texas. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, and Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor Mike Collier have expressed reservations — though Collier’s team vowed the candidate would let bills move through the process if elected. Any expansion of gambling would have to go to voters for approval as a constitutional amendment.

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Election Is Over For Unopposed Candidates

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The election is already over — before a single vote was cast — for a third of the Legislature and several hundred candidates for judge, district attorney, county commissioner and justice of the peace, among other positions up for election.

Due to a new state law, Texas Secretary of State John Scott issued a letter Sept. 8 saying that officials listed in an appendix, including 10 candidates for state Senate and 58 candidates for the Texas House, “are hereby declared elected” because they do not have an opponent.

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Democrat Land Commissioner Candidate Kleberg Ouraises Republican Buckingham

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While no Texas Democrat has won statewide office since 1994, Texas Land commissioner candidate Jay Kleberg had nearly 1.5 times as much campaign cash on hand than his Republican opponent, Dawn Buckingham at the end of September, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed Tuesday. He had more than $860,000 in his campaign coffers, compared to her $600,000.

But Kleberg admits he’s facing an uphill battle in a state where Republicans control all statewide offices and both legislative chambers. The land commissioner's office is an open seat this year, because the incumbent, George P. Bush, ran for attorney general, but lost in the primary against the incumbent, Ken Paxton in March.

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Abbott Widens Lead Over Democrat O'Rourke In Latest Polling

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Gov. Greg Abbott leads Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke by 11 percentage points with two days until early voting starts for the election, according to a new poll from the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.

It is one of the wider advantages that Abbott has registered with likely voters in public polling. Abbott had a smaller 5-point advantage in the last UT poll, which was done around early September, though that was among registered voters. After Labor Day, pollsters tend to switch from registered-voter samples to likely-voter samples.

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Texas House Candidate Faces November Trial For Auto Theft

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Johnny Arredondo, the Republican nominee for Texas House District 124, is facing a November trial on charges of felony theft of a vehicle, according to court documents.

Arredondo allegedly stole a truck from his sister, Alicia Arredondo, in November 2021 and operated it without her permission, according to the indictment.

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Border Congressman Warns: "No End In Sight" To Immigration Crisis

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Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican who represents a district in Texas that spans more than 800 miles along the border, warned that the surge of illegal immigrants crossing into the US won't stop until Congress takes action. 

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South Texas Republicans Out raising Democrats

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The three GOP candidates raked in a combined $4.3 million over the past three months, while their Democratic competitors got $2.4 million together, according to new campaign-finance filings.

Two of the Democrats — incumbents Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez — still ended the period with more on cash on hand than their challengers, though Gonzalez had only a slight edge.

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