Natalia Contreras
Reporter at Votebeat
Reporter asking all the questions about voting and election administration in Texas for @VotebeatUS | bilingüe 🇲🇽 | she/her
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2 weeks ago |
tdtnews.com | Natalia Contreras
Democratic lawmakers and Texas voters spent nearly four hours at a legislative hearing Thursday demanding to know how a GOP-backed bill to require citizenship proof from voters would work, and warning that it could disenfranchise eligible Texans. Houston voter Jacqueline Altman told members of the House Election Committee that it recently took her two days to obtain a copy of her birth certificate from the county, a process that required her to miss work to sit in county offices.
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2 weeks ago |
krgv.com | Natalia Contreras
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletters here. Before the 2024 election, two Texas counties mailed out voter registration forms to hundreds of thousands of residents, unsolicited.
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2 weeks ago |
krgv.com | Natalia Contreras
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletters here.
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2 weeks ago |
tdtnews.com | Natalia Contreras
Before the 2024 election, two Texas counties mailed out voter registration forms to hundreds of thousands of residents, unsolicited. Only a small share were returned, but the move sparked a backlash from some Republican lawmakers who said the mailings could make it easier for ineligible people to register and cast ballots. Now, bills moving through the Texas Legislature would bar counties from sending out voter registration forms to people who didn’t request them.
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2 weeks ago |
texastribune.org | Natalia Contreras
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletters here.
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Maybe MAYBE we could have a #txlege that meets annually instead of every other year 🤷🏽♀️
One of the worst things about the Texas Legislature is how members make regular citizens — whose input they ostensibly want — wait hours and hours, sometimes well past midnight, to testify before committees. Good read here by @alereports ⬇️ https://t.co/EtHcjc6M0j
RT @lmcgaughy: Over more than a decade covering the #txlege, I’ve seen this so many times. Regular people taking off work, getting a sitte…
RT @levinecarrie: I don't have an Illinois reporter for @VotebeatUS (yet), but I kinda want to know if the new pope is a UOCAVA voter?
