In less than two months, Houston residents will begin voting to elect their new mayor. But that election will no longer happen under the authority of Harris County elections officers.
Texas will shut down the election office in heavily Democratic Harris County on Friday after the state’s Supreme Court denied an emergency injunction on a law passed by state Republican leaders that requires Texas counties with 3.5 million people or more to abolish their county elections administrators.
Harris County, home to Houston and its current mayor, Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, is the only county in the state with more than 3.5 million people.
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