Two rival budget proposals offer a starting point for debate between the two chambers on public school funding and property tax relief. Source: Texas House and Senate about $3 billion apart on public education spending | The Texas Tribune

The proposed budget would increase state funds for education by about 17 percent but cut funding for health and human services by about 3 percent. Source: Texas House proposes massive increase for public school funding | The Texas Tribune

Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), testified before the House Judiciary Committee today about H.R.1, the For the People Act, a comprehensive package of democracy reforms, and the beginning of a

We’re well on our way to getting them.  They’ll be used the first time in Nov 2019. Grayson County citizens attended an ES&S demo of their new Express Vote election machine in January, 2019. You mark your choices on a

Note from Barb: Cities and companies that keep their Windows OS up to date are safe. Plus, don’t click on a link in an email from someone you don’t know. Source: In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks

Unlike a pen or stylus and a paper ballot, there’s no physical connection between a voting touchscreen or electronic button and the hardware that records the vote. The vote is instead transmitted by software. And software has flaws that could

The eyes of Texas – and election watchers across the nation – were upon Denton County as it launched all-paper voting on a brand-new system. Read the case study.

Any new voting system should conform to the following principles: 1. It should use human-readable marks on paper as the official record of voter preferences and as the official medium to store votes. More: Verified Voting Foundation: Principles for New

The Grayson County Democratic Party meetsevery fourth Thursday at Grandy’s  MAP February 28, 2019 5:30 socialize, optional dutch dinner; 6:00 meeting.New friends always welcome! Wheelchair accessible.

‘‘The incorrect assertion that voting machines or voting systems can’t be hacked by remote attackers because they are ‘not connected to the internet’ is not just wrong, it’s damaging,’’ says Susan Greenhalgh, a spokeswoman for the National Election Defense Coalition,

WHILE RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE operations in the 2016 US presidential elections focused on misinformation and targeted hacking, officials have scrambled ever since to shore up the nation’s vulnerable election infrastructure. New research, though, shows they haven’t done nearly enough, particularly when it comes