El Paso’s 2020 election’s early voting season closes today in the midst of a devastating pandemic. More than 204,000 El Pasoans have voted so far, a record by far. If 14,000 people vote today, El ...
El Pasoans still holding mail ballots for Tuesday’s election should bring them to the County Courthouse rather than entrusting them to the Postal Service, El Paso’s top election official said. “I would say Downtown is ...
Historically, El Paso young adults have not turned up at the polls as much as older age groups. But this year, some of El Paso’s young voters say that’s going to change. In El Paso ...
Despite the worst COVID-19 outbreak among major U.S. cities, El Paso is poised to shatter turnout records as we head into the last week of early voting. Almost 165,000 El Pasoans cast absentee and early ...
Tito Anchondo met with President Donald Trump in the days after his brother and sister-in-law were killed in the Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart. The president and first lady Melania ...
El Paso likely will shatter election turnout records this year, due in large part to an influx of early voters who didn’t cast ballots in the 2016 presidential race. Isabelle Chavira of Central El Paso ...
NOTE: This story has been updated to include early votes cast through Sunday, Oct. 18. A massive influx of new voters is driving El Paso to a likely record turnout in the Nov. 3 general ...
El Paso County’s record-shattering first-day turnout included more than 4,200 people who registered to vote after the last presidential election, according to an El Paso Matters analysis of county voting records. El Pasoans who registered ...
El Paso County shattered records on Tuesday for the first day of early voting, according to preliminary numbers from the El Paso County Elections Office. Almost 19,000 people voted in person in the county on ...
El Paso Matters will be providing demographic updates of the county’s voting patterns through the election season. We’ll start with a look at who is eligible to vote in the election. El Paso’s youngest and ...
In addition to having an additional week for early voting, so three weeks instead of two, what else should voters know? We will have 35 (early voting) locations across the county. We were going to ...
The candidates in the District 4 City Council race may have differing opinions on the issues, but they agree on one thing. The biggest challenge their district faces is it’s undeserved bad reputation among the ...
The El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization and Border Interfaith hosted a virtual accountability session in October with candidates for El Paso mayor and City Council. The church-based groups take a different approach than most other ...
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By Melissa Martinez The “American Dream” is something I know a little bit about. As an immigrant who came to this country as a small child, my parents made sacrifices to provide a better future ...