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 ...
Have you registered to vote yet? If not, time is of the essence! Monday, Oct. 5, is the last day to register to vote in the state of Texas to be eligible to vote in ...
Northeast El Paso City Council candidate Shawnson “Shawn” Nixon was arrested Friday on charges that he issued bad checks to fund his campaign, police said in a text to the media. He was taken into ...
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. Shawnson Nixon, 21, has ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...