Among the questions lawmakers asked at the hearing: What effect is AI having on elections?
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Among the questions lawmakers asked at the hearing: What effect is AI having on elections?
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As I wrote a few days ago for @votebeat.org (link in next post), restrictions on mail-in ballots are not currently in the SAVE America Act.
(as far as I know, numbers four and five aren't, either, but I didn't write about that)
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To identify noncitizen voters, a Maricopa County official used a database with a pretty spotty track record.
Texas had its primary election yesterday, March 3. Here's what happened in Dallas and in two other counties where Republicans decided to hand-count their ballots. 🧵
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And Editorial Director @jessicahuseman.bsky.social went to Gillespie County to observe Republicans hand counting their ballots. Despite fewer ballots to count than in 2024, they still took nearly as long — sending their report to the Secretary of State after 5 a.m.
www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
Texas reporter @nataliaecm.bsky.social went to Eastland County, Texas to watch Republicans hand count their primary ballots. The counting was still ongoing on Wednesday morning, more than 12 hours after polls closed.
www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
Dallas (and Williamson) had switched to precinct-level voting for Election Day. This caused confusion and frustration for hundreds of voters who showed up to the wrong polling place.
Read more in our collaboration with Dallas Free Press's Camilo Diaz Jr.:
www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
Texas had its primary election yesterday, March 3. Here's what happened in Dallas and in two other counties where Republicans decided to hand-count their ballots. 🧵
Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary.
More from the Dallas Free Press and Votebeat:
www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
Our reporter @nataliaecm.bsky.social is in Eastland County, TX, where Republicans insisted on hand-counting their primary ballots—and, as a result, are *still counting.* www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
The county party chose to tally GOP primary ballots by hand this year, delaying results and causing logistical headaches for election administrators
Check out @jessicahuseman.bsky.social's dispatch from Gillespie County, Texas here: www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
I stayed up all night (and I’m still awake) in Gillespie County as workers counted paper ballots by hand in 13 precincts — and county officials worked to turn those tallies into official results. Here’s how it went: www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
Election workers once again gathered in Gillespie County to count Republican primary votes by hand. County election officials did not send their report to the Secretary of State’s Office until after 5 a.m. Whether the results are accurate may not be clear for days.
www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
When Gillespie County Republicans hand-counted the 2024 primary, it took all night and led to several errors. That didn’t stop them from doing it again in 2026.
With 41% of the vote reporting on the GOP side, it's John Cornyn 43%, Ken Paxton 40%, Wesley Hunt 13%. Lots of Hunt voters seem to have switched to Cornyn or Paxton in the last minute as it was clear in polling that they were the frontrunners. #TXsen
With an estimated 44% of the vote reporting in the #TXsen Democratic primary, James Talarico leads Jasmine Crockett 53–46%.
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Confused voters at the wrong voting locations in Dallas and Eastland. Delayed primary results in Williamson. Conflicting court orders.
@jessicahuseman.bsky.social @nataliaecm.bsky.social and Dallas Free Press have you covered tonight, with more to come from @votebeat.org
A tweet from Eleanor Klibanoff saying, "The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily BLOCKED a Dallas judge’s order to keep the polls open til 9, ordering the county to separate out votes from people who were not in line at 7pm. Not a final ruling, but will create chaos in getting results from Dallas County"
Wow. If any races in Dallas County are super tight, this will be a huge legal fight as thousands of votes hang in purgatory.
Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary.
www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
Republicans’ decision to shake up polling locations led to mass confusion in the Texas primary election.
AP call: Trever Nehls has won the GOP primary in #TX22, a safely Republican seat. He'll almost certainly become the first person to succeed his twin (Rep. Troy Nehls) in the House of Representatives.
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It's Election Day in Texas and some counties could be slower to report results.
Those include Gillespie and Eastland where results are likely to take longer because Republicans are counting their ballots by hand.
Here's what to expect:
www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
Texans can expect to see some unofficial results in the primary election not long after 7 p.m. But knowing the official outcome will take longer.
You can follow election results as they come in here:
A judge has ordered Dallas County polling places to stay open until 9pm CT for the *Democratic primary only.*