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  1. 5 Nov 2020

    Texas allows counties to start processing mail-in ballots before Election Day. Republicans in Pennsylvania complicated proposals to allow for that. Pennsylvania also allows anyone to vote by mail. Texas does not.

    Texas swiftly processed more than 11 million votes & quickly announced winners across 2 time zones.
 To ensure transparency we allow poll watchers from each party to participate in the voting & tally processes. What is happening in some states undermines trust in elections.
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  2. 5 Nov 2020

    Texas turnout hit 66% of registered voters — not a record but 6.6. percentage points higher than 2016:

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    4 Nov 2020

    It’s also interesting/predictable that the immediate pundit obsession was with what happened with Latinos in Florida 🤷🏻‍♀️ over what Latinos helped pulled off in Arizona.

    It was just last week that I wrote that the "Latino vote" was about electoral strategy, not to be confused with Latino *voters.*
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  4. 3 Nov 2020

    Y'all, shout out to voters

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  5. 2 Nov 2020

    Texas voters (Rs & Ds) were ready to jump into this litigation after using drive-thru voting. Take a moment to consider how those voters — on the eve of an election — have had to fight to have their votes counted after participating in the democratic process we revere.

    Breaking: A federal judge rejected a request by a conservative activist and three Republican candidates to toss out nearly 127,000 votes cast at drive-thru polling sites in Harris County, Texas’ most populous, and largely Democratic, county.
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  6. 30 Oct 2020

    With a longer early voting period, voters who applied by the deadline but weren’t in the system when voting began could also be among those provisional voters.

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  7. 30 Oct 2020

    Finally, Texas' lack of online voter registration may also be seen among provisional voters. Counties have to manually process applications/wait for state approval. That work isn't always finished by the start of early voting.

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  8. 30 Oct 2020

    *Reminder: Provisional voters could include an untold number of voters who requested a mail-in ballot but didn’t surrender it upon voting in person (or never received it).* Texas didn't expand mail-in voting during the pandemic, but counties have seen an increase in requests.

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  9. 30 Oct 2020

    After that, county voter registrars & ballot boards still have room to, respectively, review provisional ballots (by Nov. 10) & count late arriving ballots and provisionals (by Nov. 16). Boards don't have to wait until then to finish their work but they could.

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  10. 30 Oct 2020

    After in-person voting ends on Nov. 3, Texas law allows domestic mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they come in by Nov. 4. The last day to receive overseas & military mail-in ballots is Nov. 9.

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  11. 30 Oct 2020

    Now that vote counting and how long it will go on after Nov. 3 has your attention, here is a Texas rundown of *state-mandated* deadlines and issues to consider:

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    18 Sep 2020

    TEXANS WE HAVE A VOTER GUIDE FOR YOU 📢 (and we really mean "for you" — you can enter your address to customize the guide for you)

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  13. 14 Sep 2020

    If your application for a mail-in ballot comes in after 9/1, the county must mail out your ballot within seven days of accepting your application. Deadline to request mail-in ballots in Texas is Oct. 23. But USPS recommends requesting them sooner.

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  14. 14 Sep 2020

    Mail-in ballots for overseas voters going out 9/19. In Tarrant, ballots for domestic voters will start going out 9/25 (If your app to vote by mail is in before 9/19, your ballot must go out by 10/3. Most counties I’ve talked to are striving for last week of Sept)

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    We started public test today, here's what that means.
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  15. 11 Sep 2020

    Texas judge has rejected 's request to block Harris County from sending out applications for mail-in ballots to all 2.4 million registered voters in the county:

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  16. 10 Sep 2020

    A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the Texas Democratic Party's effort to expand eligibility for voting by mail to voters under the age of 65 based on the 26th Amendment:

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  17. 9 Sep 2020

    During court hearing over voting by mail applications, offers sobering note for November: W/o straight-ticket voting, his office estimates it could take 12-20 mins for each voter to vote the whole ballot. Harris County has the longest ballot in Texas, he says.

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  18. 8 Sep 2020

    A federal judge ruled Texas' process for rejecting mail-in ballots based on a signature mismatch “plainly violates certain voters’ constitutional rights” & must be corrected ahead of November:

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  19. 8 Sep 2020

    That feeling when does not allow for online voter registration:

    We're teaming up with to bring voter registration to the September 15 from 6-8pm CT! This drive-through event will let future voters register safely and easily in time for the October 5 registration deadline. See you there! MORE:
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  20. 5 Sep 2020

    You also have 30 days left to update your address if you’ve moved. Confirm your address is correct here: (Also, do your local elections office a favor and just confirm your registration in general)

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