When it comes to campaigning during COVID-19, necessity breeds invention. For some of El Paso’s mayoral candidates, this has certainly been the case, as they have embraced new and unconventional methods of voter outreach. For ...
A security company and a temporary employment agency say El Paso City Council candidate Shawn Nixon owes them more than $280,000 from bad checks and unpaid invoices from this summer. Nixon’s campaign has faced repeated ...
An El Paso City Council candidate has been funding his campaign with thousands of dollars worth of bounced checks and wage theft, according to several police reports filed in recent weeks. Shawnason Nixon, 21, has ...
By Carlos Gallinar Under the El Paso Municipal Charter, city elections are non-partisan. This means that City Council elections cannot be done through a party primary system, similar to other elections that are held in ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden is a near-lock to carry El Paso in November, but President Donald Trump has a substantial fundraising advantage in the Sun City, according to Federal Election Commission records. Trump has ...
The El Paso County Republican Party posted a photo of new state party Chairman Allen West with El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen and other law-enforcement officials gathered close together and without face coverings on ...
For the first time in a generation, national Democrats are targeting a general election presidential television advertisement at an El Paso audience. The Democratic National Committee on Friday began running an ad called “Wolves,” aimed ...
The runoff race to determine who will preside over the 388th District Court, which has the power to determine outcomes in cases such as divorces, child custody and protective orders, has been wrought with negativity. ...
The nationwide calls for criminal justice reform are having little if any impact on the Democratic runoff race for El Paso’s next district attorney. The two candidates, Yvonne Rosales and James Montoya, say they’ve been ...
The El Paso County Elections office has undertaken significant steps to promote safety during upcoming local elections, including added precautions for COVID-19 prevention. Competing statewide rulings regarding voting by mail and conflict over mail-in ballot ...
A cross-section of faith-based leaders provided a peace-filled presence between two divergent groups during competing protests last week about policing in Downtown El Paso. Faith Peace Keepers were present as several hundred protesters calling for ...
Angela Kocherga interviewed Ron Stallworth about the current state of policing in the wake of global protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Stallworth is a law enforcement veteran and author of “Black ...
Hundreds of protesters marched through Downtown El Paso Wednesday evening in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, denouncing police brutality and calling for the defunding of the El Paso Police Department. A second smaller demonstration, located ...
El Paso City Council members engaged in a heated debate Monday over police reform and the use of force by police officers at a May 31 protest. Some council members and El Paso residents suggested ...
More than 30 El Paso physicians took the knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds Friday morning, the length of time that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee onto the neck of George ...
El Paso primary election voters were older this year than in the last presidential primaries four years ago, an El Paso Matters analysis of county voting records shows. The median age of El Paso voters ...
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won El Paso County in the Super Tuesday Democratic primary, but former Vice President Joe Biden made a late surge after gaining endorsements from prominent Democrats in El Paso and across ...
El Paso is showing signs of partisan realignment since the election of President Trump, according to an El Paso Matters analysis of early voting data for Tuesday’s primary elections. Early voting ran Feb. 18-28. The ...
On a sunny, breezy day, Taylor Sanchez knocks on doors in a neighborhood on El Paso’s west side, campaigning for presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. Most of those answering the door have seen the flood of ...
Early voting in the March 3 Texas primary elections is underway and continues through Friday, Feb. 28. El Paso Matters is tracking the demographic profile of El Paso voters and will update the turnout details ...
Early voting in the March 3 Texas primary elections is underway and continues through Friday, Feb. 28. El Paso Matters is tracking the demographic profile of El Paso voters and will update the turnout details ...
Early voting in the March 3 Texas primary elections is underway and continues through Feb. 28. El Paso Matters is tracking the demographic profile of El Paso voters and will update the turnout details as ...
In the first five days of early voting, El Paso Republicans and Democrats have both doubled their turnout at the same point of the 2016 primaries. But while most people casting Democratic votes also participated ...
Early voting in the March 3 Texas primary elections is underway and continues through Feb. 28. El Paso Matters is tracking the demographic profile of voters and will update the turnout details as data becomes ...
Throughout the early voting period, El Paso Matters is providing updates on who is voting in the March 3 Democratic and Republican primaries. El Paso County Elections Administrator Lisa Wise is predicting a possible record ...
Claudia Ordaz Perez and Elisa Tamayo, candidates running in the March 3 Democratic primary for the Texas House District 76 seat, will talk about education issues at a candidate forum Tuesday in the Bel Air High ...
Democrat Mike Bloomberg has spent more than $1.3 million in television advertising in El Paso in an effort to woo voters to his Democratic presidential campaign. That money has bought him more than 8,100 ad ...
Your guide for the March 3 2020 Republican and Democratic primary elections in El Paso County. It includes: How candidates in contested primary races responded to our questionnaires on key issues Where to find sample ...
The Feb. 7 90-count federal indictment in the Walmart shooting will inject a new issue into the race to succeed El Paso District Attorney Jaime Esparza. The federal indictment accuses the alleged gunman with hate ...
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- Where to find sample ballots
- Voting locations and methods
- Important dates
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By Carmen E. Rodríguez Many El Pasoans who have not had run-ins with the police may think local protests against our El Paso Police Department are unwarranted and that protestors are trying to address problems ...