Voting

In one neighborhood of the city, Latinos worry about immigration and urban problems but may soon be grouped in with suburban voters.

Collin County is moving to hand-marked ballots to comply with President Trump's executive order. Citizens Defending Freedom has pushed for hand-written ballots for years.

New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens, but in minuscule numbers and not in any coordinated way.

Most of those voters are in Harris County, home to Houston. Noncitizen voting is illegal and documented instances are rare.

A small group of Tarrant County residents challenged more than 15,000 voter registrations last year. A new software could help the county keep ahead of those challenges, the elections administrator said.

In addition to Dallas, several smaller cities in Dallas County filled city council seats, including a Garland mayor.

Garland voters will decide between former City Council members Dylan Hedrick and Deborah Morris in this weekend's runoff election.

Voters will decide city council runoff races from the May local elections in several cities in which no candidate got more than half of the votes.

Several residents, led by a former advisory board member removed for her social media posts, are launching a recall effort against Place 3 City Council member Paula Garcia, who has not responded to the effort.

A total of 42,353 Denton County voters cast a ballot in the joint election on May 3 this year. Denton County has 614,020 registered voters, putting turnout at just 6.9%.

The Texas House is considering a bill to abolish May elections, which have the lowest turnout of any election.

In a county of 1.28 million registered voters, 4.95%, or about 63,000 people, have voted early, either in person or by mail, ahead of the May 3 election.