primary elections

Texas voters will return to the polls this week to decide several high-profile runoff races, including contests for U.S. Senate, state attorney general and lieutenant governor.

Four candidates are set to make their case to voters in primary runoff elections for Texas Attorney General.

The request piggybacks off a ruling late last month that the requirement in Colorado law that 75% of the party’s central committee must support opting out of the primaries before it can happen “constitutes a severe burden on the major parties’ right to association and is therefore unconstitutional”

The survey findings released Monday come just eight days before the start of early voting.

Critics of a proposed constitutional amendment that could open the state's primary elections have asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to toss it out.

A proposed state constitutional amendment would require Kansas Supreme Court justices to be elected rather than appointed by the governor.

Abbott endorsed the primary opponents of Texas Republican House incumbents who voted against his proposal last year to allow taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuition of students.

Oklahomans went to the polls on Super Tuesday to choose their party nominees for president, while some voters had county proposals to vote on.

Nearly one in five state representatives could be newbies when the Texas Legislature meets next in January.

Thanks to Michelle Hoggatt, Co-President of the Amarillo League of Women Voters, for stopping by High Plains Morning this week. She shared a rundown of what citizens can expect at the upcoming Candidates Forum taking place Thursday night, Feb. 15th at Happy State Bank's Virgil Patterson Auditorium (7th & Taylor). Doors open at 5:30p CT, and the forum begins at 6p.