Questions tagged [texas]
Questions relating to the government or politics of Texas, a state of the United States
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Can Democratic politicians vote in Texas while they're arrested?
Texas governor Greg Abbott has said that the Democrat politicians who refuse to allow a quorum to be formed, thereby blocking legislation, will be arrested. But can the Democratic politicians form a ...
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Why didn't Texas Democrats leave the U.S. entirely instead of heading to the nation's capital?
As many of you are aware, Texas Democrats left the state of Texas in order to deny Republicans a quorum, and an order was put out for state police to arrest them. As such, they fled to the nation's ...
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Why doesn't the Texas legislature nuke the quorum?
The GOP-controlled Texas Legislature finds itself unable to pass a voting bill due to State Democrats refusing to participate in the meetings, leading the state to lack a quorum. The GOP has made ...
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Could Texas Democrats be punished for walking out?
The Texas Democrats in the Legislature chose to unite and leave the capitol. The decision was announced an hour before posting.
Could Texas Democrats be held legally liable when they return?
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Why hasn't Texas become a Democratic stronghold the way California has despite similar demographic characteristics?
Texas and California have somewhat similar demographic characteristics. They have:
A large Hispanic population
Younger than average populations
White individuals only make up slightly under 1 out of ...
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Understanding Texas legislative process
If a Bill passes the Senate in Texas, does that mean it becomes law as the next step?
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Which generating units did the DOE authorize to operate at maximum capacity in Texas?
Although Texas' ERCOT is not subject to FERC regulations, there are apparently emergency DOE orders that apply to some Texas generating facilities nonetheless:
Under FPA section 202(c) during the ...
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What does the Texas Reliability Entity do exactly? Can it enforce NERC standards in Texas?
Following the 2005 EPAct, the NERC is authorized to set mandatory reliability standards for power companies subject to FERC's jurisdiction.
Texas's ERCOT is itself not subject to FERC regs, but NERC ...
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What does Texas gain from keeping its electrical grid independent?
A recent article by the Texas Tribune explains why Texas has its own electrical grid:
The Texas Interconnected System — which for a long time was actually operated by two discrete entities, one for ...
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What was the Democratic vote increase from 2012 to 2020 in Texas?
I want to see an image of raw Democratic vote increase from 2012 to 2020 for president. I want it to by % and not just vote numbers so it's not biased towards larger counties. Biggest decrease (...
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Did the Supreme Court have a time limit on responding to Texas v Pennsylvania et. al?
In the lawsuit filed by Texas against Pennsylvania and other states, SCOTUS did request the defendants to respond by December 10, 2020, but they did not say until December 11 that they were not going ...
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Have Texas voters ever selected a Democrat for President?
This last American election gave me the impression that Texas voters were awfully close to electing a liberal, which is something to me that would be incredible.
Apparently Biden got 46% of the vote ...
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Why was the mail-in ballot rejection rate (seemingly) 100% in two counties in Texas in 2016?
ABC has a fairly detailed analysis of mail-in ballot rejection rated in the 2016 and 2018 elections. A couple of Texas counties stand out on the map they show as having 100% rejection rate, namely Val ...
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What were the 2020 Presidential Results in TX-15 specifically?
I am interested in the 2020 presidential election by congressional district. I am particularly interested in the 15th district of Texas. This is a South Texas district where the Democrat won by 3 ...
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Why did South Texas shift towards the Republicans?
The results of the 2020 US election are coming into focus, and, broadly speaking, there remains a large gap between how racial/linguistic groups vote. The Republicans ran a distinctly racist white-...
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What was attributed to Trump's narrower margin of victory in Texas compared to Romney?
Romney won Texas by 16 points in 2012. Trump won Texas by 9 points in 2016. Both candidates got more votes though Clinton got more of an increase.
Did Clinton come closer to winning it because of ...
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How could people in Texas erroneously vote when they were ineligible?
There are people in Texas who were ineligible to vote but erroneously voted and therefore were jailed for voter fraud:
You’re right, there are really strict punitive criminal measures to try to ...
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When are the results for Texas's early primaries published? [closed]
I live in Texas. I just voted in the primary. When are these results published? Do they get published daily? Do they get published before the primary at all? Do we wait until the primary results to ...
