To get on the ballot in 2026, either petition initiative would need to get nearly 450,000 signatures from registered voters.

Texas, which has more than 18 million registered voters, is one of only eight states without online voter registration. Its ...

Getting both measures to the ballot could be difficult because of laws around signing the same petition twice.

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To fulfill public-records requests and protect voters, county clerks have to redact ID numbers from tens of thousands of ballots, one by one.

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