EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Primary is March 1 and ABC-7 has you covered. Here are a few things you need to know before you hit the polls. Election Day will be Tuesday, March 1, 2022 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. There are more than 130 sites for you to chose from. Click
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Tuesday, March 1st is Texas primary election day. This year’s primary election will determine which candidates from the Democrat and Republican parties will move forward to November’s election. However, since there is no presidential race at stake, primary races like this year’s usually have lower voter turnout than a general election.
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EL PASO, Texas — Two out of five members of the El Paso County Commissioners Court face challengers during the March 1 primary election. County Commissioners make policy and budget decisions for county government. County Commissioner for Pct. 2, David Stout, faces challenges from Judy Gutierrez and Carlos Soto. Gutierrez is a former city employee,
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By Eric Bradner, CNN More than an hour after Beto O’Rourke had wrapped up a town hall meeting at Prairie View A&M University, three female students who had waited in a selfie line were trying to teach the former congressman a TikTok dance. O’Rourke, the favorite for the Democratic nod in Tuesday’s primary to take
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s your voice, your vote. ABC-7 hosted a debate for County Commissioner’s Precinct 4 democratic primary. The three Democratic candidates include incumbent Carl Robinson, Dorothy “Sissy” Byrd and Sergio Coronado. Candidates were given the opportunity to explain what makes them the best fit for the job. They were also able to
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas – Republican candidates for Texas attorney general debated live in Austin Thursday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will not be part of the debate after declining the invite. The debate featured: Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, R-Austin U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman, R-Houston
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EL PASO, Texas — The race is on for the county commissioner of precinct 2 and all three of the candidates on many big topics. The county commissioner is one of five members of commissioners court which makes policy-making and budget decisions for county government. This year there are three people running for the seat,
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – El Paso County elections administrator Lisa Wise says that as of February 16th, almost half of the mail ballots sent to voters were rejected under the new changes to the voter election code. “Of the 4,892 mailed out, 355 out of the 727 ballots returned have been rejected so far. That
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico – Santa Teresa High School classes were led by a lawyer in the state’s Attorney General’s Office and a water purification specialist dressed in their U.S. Army uniforms. They are part of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s initiative to relieve the current shortage of substitutes in the state’s classrooms. Gadsden
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso State Representative Evelina “Lina” Ortega will be inducted into the Texas Legal Legends. Texas Legal Legends is a project of the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. It memorializes the stories of legendary lawyers who have practiced in Texas. The induction ceremony will take place Thursday, Feb.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Early voting for the Texas primary began on Monday and there are several big races. The most notable is the race for governor. “This is going to be a fairly expensive and expansive campaign,” said Dr. Richard Pineda, director of the Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies at UTEP. Incumbent Greg
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EL PASO, Texas – Early voting starts Monday. ABC-7 Xtra Sunday edition examines one race that pits two states representatives against each other. The 2020 census led to the redrawing of Texas district maps, eliminating District 76. Claudia Ordaz-Perez held the District 76 seat. But she is now running to represent District 79, currently held by
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Millions of Texans were without power for days after a devastating winter storm in February 2021. According to the University of Houston, the storm caused roughly $295 billion in damage. It is estimated that almost 250 Texans died in the disaster, while experts believe the toll is much higher. Rhonda Boyce lives with her daughter
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EL PASO, Texas — A large number of El Paso county vote-by-mail voters are seeing their application returned to them with a rejection notice as the March primary election gets ever closer. “It’s definitely too high of a rejection rate when normally we wouldn’t have that,” Lisa Wise, the county’s elections administrator, explained. Wise looked
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By Sarah Fortinsky Former President Donald Trump in a statement Sunday said he wanted then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election, repeating the false claim that Pence had the power to do so and slamming recent bipartisan efforts to reform the Electoral Count Act. Trump falsely claimed that a bipartisan group of
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El Paso election administrators are rejecting a higher number of absentee voter applications than in previous years because of new statewide voting restrictions.El Paso County Elections Administrator Lisa Wise said her office rejected 7% of 2,400 mail-in vote applications received for the March 1 primary election as of Friday. The majority of those 166 rejections
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By Jason Morris and Sara Murray, CNN An Atlanta-area district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump‘s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia will be allowed to seat a special grand jury this spring. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis requested last week to seat a special grand jury starting May 2. Fulton
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Barely started down the path toward the first elections conducted under voting restrictions enacted last year by Republican lawmakers, Texas voters and local election officials have found themselves enveloped in a fog of errors, delays and miscommunications as they navigate new rules for casting votes by mail. Only a small slice of the state’s electorate
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Money is pouring fast into the Texas governor’s race headlined by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Democrat Beto O’Rourke. Both reported massive early fundraising hauls Monday that puts the campaign on an accelerated track to become one of the nation’s most expensive in 2022. O’Rourke
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EL PASO, Texas — Registered voters can expect to see their new Voter Registration Certificates in their mailboxes soon. The El Paso County Elections Department says the cards are blue and are valid from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. Those registered voters who do not receive their new certificate should call the El
Continue Reading CNN By Maegan Vazquez, Clare Foran and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday marked the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection by forcefully calling out former President Donald Trump for attempting to undo American democracy, saying such an insurrection must never happen again. In a speech that lasted just under 30 minutes,
Continue Reading CNN By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent President Joe Biden is planning to deliver a speech on voting rights during a visit to Atlanta next week, officials say, traveling to the cradle of the civil rights movement to shine a brighter light on election reform in advance of the national holiday celebrating the life
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed legislation to redraw election boundaries for seats in the New Mexico House of Representatives. The Democrat signed the measure Wednesday, calling it a “sound map that is representative and respectful of New Mexico’s varied communities of interest.” Republicans disagree. They have argued that the
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Advocates are renewing their push for legislation that would abolish life without parole for juveniles sentenced as adults in New Mexico. The proposed “Second Chance” bill would make juveniles sentenced as adults eligible for parole after serving 15 years in prison. Denali Wilson is an attorney with the American Civil Liberties
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WASHINGTON, DC — Commanders will no longer be involved in military sexual harassment or sexual assault investigations under a new federal law named for a murdered Fort Hood soldier that goes into effect on Jan. 1. Provisions of the “I Am Vanessa Guillén Act” were included in the $770 billion National Defense Authorization Act that was signed
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State officials say new rules governing the manufacture, sale and transport of recreational marijuana in New Mexico are now in effect. The New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department’s Cannabis Control Division made the announcement Tuesday. Officials say the rules allow the division to continue streamlining the process for cannabis businesses
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — With authorities logging more than a dozen DWI arrests in the Albuquerque area since Christmas Eve, there are more calls for New Mexico to crack down on repeat offenders. Albuquerque television station KOB-TV reports that many of the cases over the past year involve first time offenses. But officers have seen
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas board has withdrawn a unanimous pardon recommendation for George Floyd over a 2004 drug arrest in Houston. The Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles says it had identified “procedural errors” in how pardons were issued this year. The same board in October had
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed emergency legislation to tweak New Mexico’s new law on medical malpractice to head off a possible loss of insurance coverage for some health care providers. Lujan Grisham’s office said she signed the legislation Wednesday and appreciated that the Legislature acted on the issue during
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A congressional committee has launched an investigation into the promoter of the Astroworld music festival in Houston, in which 10 people were killed during a massive crowd surge. The House Oversight and Reform Committee sent a letter Wednesday to Live Nation’s president and CEO, Michael Rapino,
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