El Paso election administrators are rejecting a higher number of absentee voter applications than in previous years because of new statewide voting restrictions. El Paso County Elections Administrator Lisa Wise said her office rejected 7% ...
Buoyed by years of fundraising and sizable donations from several El Paso business leaders, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has built a strong donation base in the hometown of his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke. Abbott, Texas’ ...
Divisions among Texas House Democrats were clear in recent campaign contributions to the two candidates running for East El Paso’s House District 79. State Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez, who is vying to unseat Rep. Art ...
As the primary election nears for El Paso County Commissioners Court seats, Precinct 2 challenger Judy Gutierrez leads incumbent David Stout in fundraising efforts with heavy law enforcement union support. Campaign finance reports for the ...
By Patrick Svitek/The Texas Tribune Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke raised $7.2 million in the first 46 days of his campaign, while Republican incumbent Greg Abbott raked in $18.9 million over the last six months ...
Beto O’Rourke invoked his hometown underdogs Saturday afternoon at his first El Paso campaign event since announcing his run for governor. He spoke of El Paso’s political, civil rights and sports figures who challenged the ...
UPDATE: 8:20 a.m. Jan. 8: The 8th Court of Appeals issued an order late Friday dismissing Rep. Art Fierro’s request for a writ of mandamus to remove Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez from the March 1 ...
The two El Paso County commissioner seats up for reelection in 2022 have drawn a variety of candidates. El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego will not face a challenger in the March Democratic primary election, ...
The City of El Paso’s Districting Commission, tasked with recommending new voting districts for city representatives that will stay in place for the next decade, is aiming to increase public participation in the process as ...
Candidate filings for the March 2022 Democratic and Republican primaries closed Monday and El Paso voters will see a few competitive local races for county commissioner and Texas House seats. The March 1 primaries also ...
El Pasoans who cast votes in 2022 will be rewarded with a unique sticker designed by Layla M. Gonzalez, a seventh-grader from Jose J. Alderete Middle School. Alderette Middle School is in the Canutillo Independent ...
Update 6:20 p.m. Nov. 3: This story has been updated to include coment from city Rep. Isabel Salcido. Former Democratic state Rep. Joe Pickett is challenging incumbent city Rep. Isabel Salcido in the November 2022 ...
Updated Nov. 3 10:30 a.m.: This story has been corrected to clarify that the Socorro City Council races will go to a runoff. Texas voters overwhelmingly approved changes to the state’s constitution Tuesday, according to ...
Updated 11:04 a.m. Nov 2: This story has been updated with comment from state Rep. Lina Ortega, D-El Paso, who is endorsing Ordaz Perez. State Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez, D-El Paso, announced Monday she is ...
Early voting begins next week for the Nov. 2 uniform election. It’s an off-year for many political offices, but voters will be asked to weigh in on eight statewide ballot measures. Some El Paso County ...
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar is teaming up with the Texas Democratic Party on an ambitious voter registration push ahead of next year’s state and federal elections to help combat what she said is an attempt ...
After being just shy of avoiding a runoff last month, Israel Irrobali comfortably won the race Saturday for the District 5 seat on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees. He received 62% ...
The El Paso County Commissioners Court and the El Paso City Council are gearing up for the decennial task of redistricting political boundaries based on U.S. Census data — a move that could impact who ...
In 2018, faced with intense criticism, the El Paso Border Patrol sector scrapped a “crowd control exercise” that was planned next to the Chihuahuita neighborhood on Nov. 6 — Election Day. The exercise was planned ...
Northeast El Paso residents have a second opportunity to vote for their representative for the District 5 seat on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees. Candidates Cordia “Vanessa” Betts and Israel Irrobali ...
One El Paso ISD school board incumbent was defeated Saturday and another re-elected. District 3 incumbent Josh Acevedo was re-elected to a spot on the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees while District ...
By Kaitlyn Urenda-Culpepper Leslie Hoard is running to represent El Paso families on the El Paso Independent School District school board. Her views and behaviors do not befit anyone who should seek to hold public ...
At the height of the fall coronavirus case surge, a now-candidate seeking to represent Central El Paso families on the EPISD school board called into question the efficacy of face masks. “The masks are not ...
Four seats are up for grabs on both the El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees and the Socorro Independent School District Board of Trustees. Trustees play an important role in school districts. They ...
Since January, $61,000 in campaign contributions has flowed into the El Paso and Socorro school board races, finance reports filed last week show. More than half of that funding comes from special interest groups rather ...
El Paso and Socorro independent school districts each have four school board seats up for grabs this spring. El Pasoans wanting to participate in the May 1 election have until Thursday, April 1 to register ...
Voters living within the Ysleta school district boundaries won’t cast a ballot this spring to fill four seats on the seven-member school board. On Wednesday, the Ysleta Independent School District Board of Trustees canceled its ...
El Paso Independent School District trustees on Tuesday narrowly rejected a move to switch school board elections from majority to plurality vote. The change would have done away with runoff elections, which trustees Daniel Call ...
Former El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser was returned to office Saturday, trouncing the man who succeeded him in 2017, Dee Margo. Leeser picked up more than 79% of the 53,929 votes cast in the runoff ...
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By David Marcus On Nov. 2, Texas voters will be asked to vote on Proposition 3, which would prohibit state and local governments from adopting any measures that limit religious services held by a religious ...