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On June 16, 2024, Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old American girl, was sexually assaulted and killed in North Houston, Texas, United States. The case attracted national attention, as two illegal immigrants from Venezuela were charged with her murder. [ 1 ]
A 25-year extension of the VRA is signed by President Ronald Reagan. [31] 1983. Texas repeals the lifelong prohibition against voters with felony convictions and institutes a five year waiting period after completing a sentence to vote. [63] 1985. Texas changes the five year waiting period to two years for people with felony convictions. [63] 1986
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
According to the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, to be eligible to register to vote in Texas a person must: Be a U.S. citizen. Be a resident of the county where they’re registering.
The move to lower the voting age has been given a fresh push by the activism of teenagers across the country after the Parkland high school shooting.
Cecilia Castellano awoke to the sound of her doorbell in the early hours of Aug. 20. The South Texas sky outside her Atascosa County home was still dark, but as she emerged from her bedroom ...
A common slogan of proponents of lowering the voting age was "old enough to fight, old enough to vote". [2] Determined to get around inaction on the issue, congressional allies included a provision for the 18-year-old vote in a 1970 bill that extended the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court subsequently held in the case of Oregon v.
[2] [5] Outreach efforts by Young Voters for the President have been credited with helping Nixon capture 48 percent of 18 to 24 year-old voters, and 52 percent of under 30 voters, in the 1972 presidential contest. [1] [6] Nixon ultimately won that election with roughly 61-percent of the popular vote and 97-percent of the electoral vote. [7]