AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — More than 70,000 Houston-area voters have cast their ballots from their vehicles and thousands more will do so after the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday denied a bid from Republicans to shut down drive-thru voting.In what critics said was a cynical attempt to suppress turnout in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County the day before the Oct. 13 start of early voting, the Republican Party of Texas filed a lawsuit trying to stop the county from giving all registered voters the option of casting their ballots curbside or in drive-thru booths.Harris County’s 34-year-old...…AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — More than 70,000 Houston-area voters have cast their ballots from their vehicles and thousands more will do so after the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday denied a bid from Republicans to shut down drive-thru voting.In what critics said was a cynical attempt to suppress turnout in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County the day before the Oct. 13 start of early voting, the Republican Party of Texas filed a lawsuit trying to stop the county from giving all registered voters the option of casting their ballots curbside or in drive-thru booths.Harris County’s 34-year-old...WW…

HOUSTON (CN) — The elections chief of Texas’ biggest county Friday moved closer to his goal of sending absentee ballot applications to all its registered voters when an appellate court approved the plan.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, sued Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins, a Democrat, on Aug. 31, seeking an injunction to block Hollins from sending the applications to the county’s 2.4 million registered voters.The litigation is one of voting-related lawsuits pending in courts across the U.S. And it is not over as Paxton will undoubtedly appeal to the Texas Supreme...…HOUSTON (CN) — The elections chief of Texas’ biggest county Friday moved closer to his goal of sending absentee ballot applications to all its registered voters when an appellate court approved the plan.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, sued Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins, a Democrat, on Aug. 31, seeking an injunction to block Hollins from sending the applications to the county’s 2.4 million registered voters.The litigation is one of voting-related lawsuits pending in courts across the U.S. And it is not over as Paxton will undoubtedly appeal to the Texas Supreme...WW…

HOUSTON (CN) — A Mexican woman sued prison contractor CoreCivic on Wednesday, claiming a man in street clothes beat and raped her in its Houston detention center and she gave birth to his daughter after she was deported. After a three-month incarceration at the Houston Processing Center, Jane Doe was set to be sent back to Mexico on June 2, 2018, she says in her filed in Houston.The Houston site is one of eight CoreCivic prisons where the company houses undocumented immigrants under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“We are subject to multiple levels of oversight,...…HOUSTON (CN) — A Mexican woman sued prison contractor CoreCivic on Wednesday, claiming a man in street clothes beat and raped her in its Houston detention center and she gave birth to his daughter after she was deported. After a three-month incarceration at the Houston Processing Center, Jane Doe was set to be sent back to Mexico on June 2, 2018, she says in her filed in Houston.The Houston site is one of eight CoreCivic prisons where the company houses undocumented immigrants under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“We are subject to multiple levels of oversight,...WW…