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He is known for overseeing the 2020 United States presidential election in Harris County; many of his policies received resistance from state Republican officials. [ 1 ] In February 2022, he announced a candidacy in the 2023 Houston mayoral election but withdrew in April 2023 to run for city controller.
Harris County, the most populous one in Texas, spearheaded a number of innovative approaches and was the focal point of several legal challenges. For the 2020 elections, Harris County Commissioners approved a budget of $33 million, higher than the $4 million budget for the 2016 United States presidential election.
Menefee defeated three-term incumbent Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan and another challenger in the March 2020 Texas Democratic Primary Election, and won the November 2020 General Election. [7] He took office in January, 2021. He was the youngest, and first African American to serve as Harris County Attorney. [8]
After the 2022 elections, Republican lawmakers effectively dismantled Harris County's elections office and turned the job back over to the county tax assessor and county clerk, which are both ...
Shaking up elections in Texas' largest county, the GOP-controlled Legislature on Tuesday approved abolishing a position in Harris County that oversees more than 2 million voters around Houston ...
A second Texas audit in as many years of elections in Harris County, the third-most populous county in the U.S., called for improvements but does not suggest that race outcomes in 2022 were ...
The politics of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas are complex and constantly shifting in part because the city is one of the fastest growing major cities in the United States and is the largest without zoning laws. Houston was founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837. The city is the county seat of Harris County.
The Texas Legislature advanced a bill that would allow the secretary of state to redo Harris County elections, which has been dogged by claims of election mismanagement.