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How Early Voting Changes Elections With more and more people choosing to vote early instead of on Election Day — it raises Some philosophical questions about how we vote. Do people who vote early have the same set of facts as those who vote on Election Day? And will the boost to early voting change the way politicians campaign for votes? |
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With Presidency Decided, Lawmakers Face Policy Hurdles What does four more years of an Obama White House mean for the policy issues facing the overwhelmingly conservative Texas Legislature — and the interest groups and constituents who guide the political process? |
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Former Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia Joins State Senate Race Former Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia says she'll run for the state Senate seat left open after the death of Mario Gallegos last month. She says she's ready for a new challenge. |
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Superintendent And Principals Discuss Passage Of HISD Bond Proposal At his monthly meeting with school principals, HISD Superintendent Terry Grier discussed the next step after voters approved the $1.9 billion dollar bond proposal. The money will be used to rebuild or renovate 38 schools across the district. |
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What Cruz's Senate Victory Means For Texas, The Senate, And The Tea Party Most of the U.S House and Senate candidates who lined up with the Tea Party did not win their races last night. Two notable exceptions were Michele Bachmann in Minnesota — and Ted Cruz here in Texas. So what does Cruz's victory means for the state, the Senate, and for the Tea Party. |
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Sullivan Cautiously Claims Victory In County Tax Office Race After a nail-biter of an election night, Houston City Councilman Mike Sullivan says he's cautiously declaring victory in the race to be Harris County's next tax assessor-collector. |
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Houston Mayor Celebrates Passage Of $410 Million Bonds Now that houston voters have authorized the city to take out more than $400 million dollars in bonds for various improvements — Houston Mayor Annise Parker says she's ready to get to work on various city-wide improvements to parks — libraries — public safety and affordable housing. |
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Alvarado Expected To Formally Announce Run for Gallegos' Senate Seat State Representative and former Houston City Councilwoman Carol Alvarado is expected to formally announce next week that she'll run for the state Senate seat left open after the death of Mario Gallegos. |
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Tea Party Darling Ted Cruz Is New US Senator Tea Party-backed Republican Ted Cruz has won the race for Texas' open U.S. Senate seat. He beat former Democratic state Representative Paul Sadler to succeed retiring Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. |
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UH Students Watch Election Results Roll In Hundreds of University of Houston students watched the election results come in last night. Many of them were first-time voters, and most of them were only watching the results of the presidential election. |
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A referendum on whether METRO should continue to share its transit tax revenues passed by almost a 4 to 1 margin. The agency will continue to divert revenue to Harris County, Houston and other municipalities, which can then use the money for roads and bridges. |
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HISD Gets $1.9 Billion Bond Approved The city has been flooded by signs, billboards and TV ads asking for a "yes" vote on the Houston Independent School District's bond proposal. Yesterday voters approved that bond and now HISD will receive 1.9 billion dollars to improve 38 schools. |
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Harris County's Next DA: Republican Mike Anderson Republican Mike Anderson is the projected winner of the Harris County District Attorney's race. |
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Galveston County Polling Locations To Remain Open Until 8:45 PM Galveston voters have a couple extra hours to cast their ballots this evening. State District Judge John Ellisor ordered that polling locations stay open until 8:54 p.m. because of a problem with voting machines this morning. Galveston County Clerk Dwight Sullivan says machines weren't calibrated early enough this morning. |
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Congresswoman Tells Harris County Voters Not To Be Intimidated Houston congresswoman says Harris County residents need to speak up if they feel they're being kept from voting. |
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Tomorrow Voters To Decide On Texas' Largest Bond Proposal Houston voters will head to the polls tomorrow to make the final decision on HISD's nearly 1.9 billion dollar bond proposal. It would help the district rebuild or renovate dozens of schools. |
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METRO Referendum Could Confuse Voters One of the closest local races on the ballot tomorrow isn't between two candidates. It's the METRO referendum — which asks voters to decide whether the transit agency should reauthorize a revenue-sharing plan with area municipalities. |
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Early Voting Popularity Rises With New Record In Harris County Early voting set a new record in Harris County. More than three-quarters-of-a-million voters cast ballots either in person or by mail by Friday night's deadline. It appears the increasing popularity of early voting is here to stay. |
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What Does It Mean To Be An Independent Voter In Texas? Independent voters outnumber those who call themselves Democrats or Republicans. But what, exactly, is an independent voter? And what sort of influence, if any, do independents really have in Texas? |
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Voting With Just a Little Bit of Information Most people don't know all of the judicial candidates on the ballot, so they vote for the party, even when there is other information that might sway them. |
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Little Competition but Big Differences in U.S. Senate Race A relatively quiet race has helped mask the stark differences between Democrat Paul Sadler and Republican Ted Cruz in the race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. |
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Texas Early Voting Ends Tonight It's the last day of early voting in Texas. Harris County has 37 early voting locations that will be open until 7 p.m. tonight. |
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Early Voters: HISD Bond Proposal, Yes or No? Tomorrow is the final day you can early vote for the Houston Independent School District's bond proposal. It's a $1.9 billion dollar plan to replace, rebuild or renovate 38 schools. Two opposing Political Action Committees have been fighting to get your vote. So which one is winning and how are people voting. |
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Houston High School Students Appeal To Voters To Approve Bond Issue Students are rallying support for a $1.9 billion dollar bond issue that would rebuild and renovate 28 Houston high schools. |
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Preview Of Harris County Attorney's Race The Harris County Attorney hopes to hang on to his job as he faces a challenge from a former state lawmaker. |
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Poll: Lower Confidence Among Black Voters On Certain Voting Matters A new KUHF/KHOU poll shows that black voters aren't as confident as other voters that their vote will be counted accurately. KUHF's Shomial Ahmad went out to talk to African-American voters. |
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Sandy Could Both Benefit And Hurt Presidential Candidates As areas of the northeast begin to evaluate the scope of damage left in Sandy's wake, the two presidential candidates are still waiting to see how they should proceed in a crucial campaign week. One Houston political observer says Sandy could both benefit and hurt President Obama. |
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Preview Of Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Race Following the defeat of incubant Tax Assessor-Collector Don Sumners in the Republican primary, Harris County voters will now elect a new person for the job. A longtime district courts staffer is now vying for the post against a Houston city councilman. |
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Poll Shows Most Houstonians Optimistic About City's Direction And Financial Future Most Houstonians questioned in a new KUHF/KHOU poll are optimistic both about the direction the city's heading in and how their financial situation will fare in the next twelve months. KUHF's Shomial Ahmad went to an early voting location in southwest Houston to see what voters thought. |
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Appointed Commissioner Running To Keep His Job A year after being appointed to finish the term of Harris County Commissioner Eversole, Jack Cagle is running for the job outright. This race is to head the largest precinct in Harris County. |
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Preview Of The Harris County District Attorney's Race A KUHF-KHOU poll shows a close race for Harris County District Attorney. Results show Republican Mike Anderson leading Democrat Lloyd Oliver 41 to 36 percent. Nineteen percent say they're still undecided. The election pits a longtime defense attorney against a career prosecutor and judge. |
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Harris County Sheriff Faces Republican Challenger This Election Adrian Garcia wants to return as Harris County sheriff, but the incumbent Democrat is being challenged by Republican Louis Guthrie. Take a look at both candidates vying for the top law enforcement office in the county. |
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Texas Voters Say 'Obamacare' Influencing Their Vote With Election Day looming, voters say the economy and budget deficit are still their top priorities. But health care is not far behind. In many polls, voters rate the Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as "Obamacare" — as the fourth most important issue in the presidential race. |
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What Does It Take To Be A Poll Watcher? Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says if international election observers get too close to the polls on Election Day, they could end up in jail. So just what are the qualifications to be a poll watcher? |
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HISD's Bond Proposal Receives More Endorsement HISD's 1.9 billion dollar bond proposal got more support from African American elected officials, and alumni and parents of one of the high schools scheduled for replacement. |
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The Future Of Mario Gallegos' Senate Seat The passing of State Senator Mario Gallegos leaves a lot of questions about who will represent Senate District 6 in the future. Gallegos is expected to win re-election because it's too late to remove his name from the ballot |
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If you've made your decision on the race for president, you can cast your ballot as early as today. Early voting begins this morning. |
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At Budget Meetings, Policy Decisions Few Voters Notice A couple of key "process" decisions — adopting an official prediction of how much the economy and population will grow, and deciding how big a patch to put on the current state budget — could limit state spending for the next two years. |
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Harris County Treasurer Adds More Opposition To HISD Bond Proposal Days after initial opposition to HISD's nearly $2 billion bond proposal, Harris County Treasurer Orlando Sanchez says he will not support the measure. |
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KUHF Conversations: US Senate Candidate Ted Cruz (R) In the second of a two-part series of conversations with the candidates for U.S. Senate, Republican Ted Cruz explains to Morning Edition host David Pitman his ideas to reduce federal spending and the size of government — and whether Cruz sees President Obama as more of an opponent than the other candidate in the Senate race, Democrat Paul Sadler. |
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What Makes A Voter An 'Undecided' Voter? Tonight's town-hall-style presidential debate will feature an audience of "undecided" voters. But, how, exactly, can a voter still be "undecided" near the end of a presidential campaign that has lasted two years? |
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HISD Officials Show Off Crumbling Schools Houston Independent School District officials are trying to drum up support for their bond proposal by taking people on tours of aging schools in the district. |
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LULAC Sues Harris County Over Tainted Voter Rolls LULAC, the League of United Latin American citizens and a number of Houston residents have filed a federal lawsuit against the Harris County voter registrar Don Sumners. The suit alleges the county knowingly rejects more voter registration applications than other counties in Texas. |
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Why Voters Need To Read The Whole Ballot Today in our ongoing election coverage, we look at a problem that could come up if people vote straight party ticket on the ballot. Voters might miss a number of important elections. |
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Voter Registration Deadline Draws Near Tomorrow is the deadline for Texas voters to make sure they're registered to cast a ballot in next month's election. Harris County elections officials say they've been deluged with voter registration forms in recent days. |
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Houston Council District E is a Unique Race on the Ballot Houston Council District E wasn't supposed to come up for grabs for another two years. But sitting Councilmember Mike Sullivan is running for Harris County Tax Assessor — and turned in his resignation early so the city wouldn't have to pay for a special election. |
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Poll Finds Many Voters Unsure About Upcoming Elections With tonight's debate between President Obama and Governor Romney, a new poll finds the Governor with a 20 point lead over the President in Texas. That's not a big surprise in a solidly-red state. But the same poll also finds many voters haven't made up their minds in the race for U.S. Senate, and they're not so sure right now about backing Governor Rick Perry for another term. |
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Early Voting Encouraged As Precincts Change Billboards are up across Harris County encouraging people to vote early. Local officials say the reminder is more important this year because of redistricting. |
