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Staff shortages in multiple Texas counties in Texas meant that voters of one party couldn’t vote at a particular site, at least temporarily. Fact-check: Why some voters faced challenges voting ...
The 1903 law [2] allowed parties to restrict who could vote in their primaries, paving the way to exclude African-American voters from Democratic Party primaries. [3] A poll tax had been established in 1902 and both laws disenfranchised African Americans. The Terrell Law was named for Alexander W. Terrell. [4] The law was revised in 1905–1906 ...
Houston dentist Lonnie E. Smith casts his ballot in the 1944 Texas Democratic primary election (July 22, 1944) Lonnie E. Smith, a black dentist from the Fifth Ward area of Houston [1] and a voter in Harris County, Texas, sued county election official S. S. Allwright for the right to vote in a primary election being conducted by the Democratic Party.
Find sample ballots for Republican and Democratic candidates here. What's on the Super Tuesday primary ballot? All Texas candidates running can be found here. These are the races included on the ...
In Brazos County, Texas, suspicions about elections burst into the open last fall, just weeks after a visit from an out-of-state group calling for ballots to be hand-counted. "Everything seems great.
The uncommitted share exceeded that against Barack Obama in 2012, the most recent prior re-election campaign of a Democratic president (though in 2012 it was a caucus rather than a primary). [24] In Minnesota, uncommitted received an even larger share of the vote, at 18.9%, while Biden was cut short to 70.6%.
Tuesday marks the first day of early voting in Texas for primary elections to decide candidates for the President of the United States, the U.S. Senate, all 38 Texas U.S. representatives, local ...
The case was the third in a series of Court decisions known as the "Texas primary cases". [1] In Nixon v. Herndon (1927), [2] Lawrence A. Nixon sued for damages under federal civil rights laws after being denied a ballot in a Democratic party primary election on the basis of race.