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A federal appeals court has upheld Texas’ requirement that potential voters must list their identification information in their application for a mail-in ballot.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/voting/2025/08/06/528026/federal-appeals-court-sides-with-texas-on-id-requirements-for-voting-by-mail/

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More than a dozen Texas counties are fighting a push by some Republican state lawmakers to get rid of a program that allows voters to cast their ballots at any county polling location on Election Day.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/voting/2025/02/03/512772/some-texas-lawmakers-want-to-ban-countywide-voting-on-election-day-as-local-officials-push-back/

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Online voting guide, GoVoteTexas.org, is now available in three additional languages — Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi — which respectively, are the third, fourth and seventh top used languages in Houston. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/voting/2024/10/24/503997/voting-guide-now-available-in-vietnamese-mandarin-chinese-hindi/

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