Texas decertified a widely used electronic pollbook after problems in November. Will a fix arrive in time for the next election?

President Donald Trump pardoned nearly 1,500 people who were convicted of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Some of those included high-profile North Texans.

Sixty Texas counties are scrambling to replace an important piece of voting equipment after the electronic poll books used to check in voters at the poll were decertified. In December 2024, the state decertified a poll book from the company Election Systems & Software that was widely used across Texas because thousands of voters in

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The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.

The State Bar of Texas will not mover forward with it's case against Attorney General Ken Paxton after the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of the assistant attorney general in a similar case last month.

None of the candidates selected so far interviews are from Bexar County, though several election department staffers applied.

The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.

A healthy democracy has free and fair elections, robust civil liberties, multiparty competition and minimal corruption. Does Texas qualify?

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