A surge in young voters propelled El Paso to a record-shattering turnout in the 2020 presidential election, an El Paso Matters analysis of county voting data shows. Despite being engulfed by the worst COVID-19 outbreak ...
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar was elected to a second term in Congress last week with 64% of the vote. Her win wasn’t a surprise — Democrats have controlled Texas’ 16th Congressional District seat since 1965. ...
Women were first able to vote in a presidential election 100 years ago, although initially this right was only extended to white women. A century later, El Paso women are showing up in massive numbers ...
State Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, filed paperwork on Election Day seeking to be Texas’ next speaker of the House of Representatives. If he is selected by House colleagues, Moody would be the first Latino ...
As more than 220,000 El Pasoans went to vote early in recent weeks, one woman had to sit on the sidelines. Martha, a Mexican immigrant in the process of applying for U.S. citizenship, could not ...
El Paso Matters journalists are documenting developments during this historic day. Check back frequently for updates. Wednesday, Nov. 4, 8 a.m. El Paso sets voting record More than 256,000 votes have been counted in El ...
Financial backers of the six candidates vying for mayor have pumped close to $1 million into their campaigns since Tuesday’s race started in spring 2019. Incumbent Dee Margo, former Mayor Oscar Leeser and political newcomers ...
At a time when a global pandemic has shifted the traditional campaigning efforts for candidates, the Internet has become an invaluable source for campaigns. City Council District 7 candidate Aaron Montes, a former reporter for ...
Younger and infrequent voters drove El Paso’s record-shattering early voting turnout, an El Paso Matters analysis shows. El Paso Matters modeling shows that by the times polls close on Tuesday, somewhere between 280,000 and 300,000 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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