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EXCLUSIVE: Harris County, TX, November 5, 2024 Election Early Voter Variables

Methodology: 1) Purchase Voter Registration Roll; 2) Download PUBLIC voter rosters from County Elections website; 3) Upload files to ACCESS; 4) Conduct pertinent queries; 5) Use Excel pivot tables to shape data; 6) Analyze

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The Presidency, Aging and the Electorate

A survey conducted by NBC News in the Spring of 2023 found that “Substantial majorities” of Americans did not want President Joe Biden nor former President Donald Trump to seek reelection in 2024. The candidates’ performance in the initial presidential debate of the...

Spotlighted Chart

The charts show the percent each known generation, Greatest, Silent, Boomers, GenX, Millennials and GenZ totaled of the registered voters among the general population (slide 1), the Spanish-surname registered voters (slide 2), Asian-surname registered voters (slide 3) and none-Spanish-nor-Asian-surname registered voters (slide 4) as of July during the 2012 to 2024 presidential election years in Harris County, TX.

“Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive. -Frida Kahlo, Artist

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“The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist

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OTHER PERSPECTIVES

In-the-News

Pronouncements Diminishing the Hispanic Electorate Persist

Pronouncements Diminishing the Hispanic Electorate Persist

The assertion, “Less than half of eligible Latinos are registered to vote,” appearing in a major newspaper story, “As Hispanics become Texas’ largest demographic group, their political clout lags,” is not supported by Census Bureau data or an analysis of Harris County...

“In 12 years of working for Republican county clerks and two years for Democrats, I was part of election teams that conducted 86 successful elections. But the public should know that “successful” isn’t the same thing as “flawless.”  –

(D) Teneshia Hudspeth, Harris County Clerk , TX

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ELECTIONS AND VOTER PARTICIPATION

VOTING REPORTS

Early voters central to growing Latino vote

Early voters central to growing Latino vote

https://www.hectordeleon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Early-Voters-Key-to-Growing-Latino-Vote.pdf Prior to the 2016 Presidential election, the majority of Spanish-surname voters cast their ballots on Election Day. In 2016, compared to 2012, the Spanish-surname early...

2020 ELECTION

A Look at the Vote in the 2008 to 2020 Harris County (TX) Primary Elections

A Look at the Vote in the 2008 to 2020 Harris County (TX) Primary Elections

This is one of twelve tables reviewing Harris County Primary Elections voting data from 2008 to 2020. A-look-at-Harris-County-TX-Primary-Elections_2008-2020Download THE OBJECTIVE The objective of this presentation is to answer the following questions about the #HarrisCounty Democratic Party and Republican Party #primaryelections since 2008: • How...

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ARE HARRIS COUNTY REGISTERED VOTER POPULATION CHANGES IN 10-YEARS EXPLAINED BY 2020 CENSUS? WILL CHANGES MANIFEST IN 2022 PRIMARY ELECTIONS?

ARE HARRIS COUNTY REGISTERED VOTER POPULATION CHANGES IN 10-YEARS EXPLAINED BY 2020 CENSUS? WILL CHANGES MANIFEST IN 2022 PRIMARY ELECTIONS?

Comparison_2011vs2021_HarrisCntyRegV_w-Census2020Demographics-1Download OBJECTIVE This analysis measures the changes in the registered voter population in cities and unincorporated areas in Harris County at a ten year interval and examines if the changes are explained by 2020 Census. It combines Census population data with voter registration data...

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“The devil has power in his gift. And, if men have power, it has been given to them by the devil, NOT by God, because God does not traffic in power…”  -Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist and caustic social critic

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Charts

Who VOTED? City of Houston November 7, 2023 Election

11-7-2023-vs-11-3-2015_by-Zip_V2Download A comparison of the 2015 November City of Houston Election results with the 2023 November results within Harris County indicate the following: In 19 zip code areas where the "White alone" population is 60% or more and the rest...

2023 Houston Mayoral Election (Harris County Voting Precincts))

“Devils, rebels or angels, poets or peddlers, princes or pawnbrokers, we really are not so bad, after all. At least we are interesting.”  

-Anita Brenner, Mexican born avant–garde artists

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“There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.”

-Richard Rodriguez, American writer, author of Hunger of Memory

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LOOKING INWARD

CULTURE

THE CHALLENGE of repeating a successful speaking performance

THE CHALLENGE of repeating a successful speaking performance

How can I match what I did previously? This is a question public speakers face regularly. Repeating a successful performance presents a challenge because factors that impact communication change from moment-to-moment. Good speakers must be ready to adapt to fluid...

Exhorting Students to be Attentive

Exhorting Students to be Attentive

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I am very appreciative for the invitation. I am honored to be here but a bit apprehensive about speaking. You see every time I am asked to speak to teenagers I think about my years as a teen. And I think about the...

Dealing with death during the Holidays

Dealing with death during the Holidays

Jose Guadalupe de Leon (father) Hector de Leon (son) Several minutes before the clock hit the twenty-fourth hour, thirty-two days after Thanksgiving, fifteen days after his 70th birthday, two days after Christmas, four days before the new year, in 1999, my father took...

LESSONS THAT OUTLIVE A PROFESSOR: Political theory shaped mind, life

LESSONS THAT OUTLIVE A PROFESSOR: Political theory shaped mind, life

Lessons That Outlive a Professor_HoustonChronicle_7-23-2006 (This essay has been edited since it appeared in the Houston Chronicle Editorials on July 21, 2006.) My favorite professor died in 2006. His name was Ross Lence. He taught political theory at the University...

Volunteerism and Loyalty defined Rafael Palafox, aka Señor NALEO

Volunteerism and Loyalty defined Rafael Palafox, aka Señor NALEO

A wrinkled fading black and white copy of Rafael Palafox’s Certificate of Naturalization shows he was 24-days short of his sixty-eighth birthday when he suddenly passed away. I found it in my mail basket. It was made to serve as “In Case of an Emergency”...

For an immigrant child, the meaning of home

For an immigrant child, the meaning of home

In the fall of 2014, as the number of unaccompanied children illegally crossing into the United States surged, there were calls to quickly send them home. I began to think about the idea of home and what it means from the immigrant child perspective. I asked, "If I...

NUESTROS PADRES NUNCA DEJAN DE EXISTIR

NUESTROS PADRES NUNCA DEJAN DE EXISTIR

Cuando perdí a mi padre estaba terriblemente conmovido. Sentí que una parte de mí murio. Me sentía muy vulnerable y muy mortal. Se sentía como si tenía cinco años y estaba perdido en un lugar publico. Sin el escudo contra mis temores, mi sensación de seguridad...

MY MOTHER, MY HERO: MI MADRE, MI HÉROE

MY MOTHER, MY HERO: MI MADRE, MI HÉROE

A mother is the one constant in the life of most children. The moment my mother died compelled me to reflect on this reality. Until the age of 10, I lived with my mother in Mexico while my father lived in the USA. Once I reached adulthood, the circumstances of...

Mi Madre, Mi Héroe

Mi Madre, Mi Héroe

Para la mayoría de niños su madre es lo único constante en sus vidas. El momento en que murió mi madre me hizo reflexionar sobre esta realidad. Hasta la edad de 10 años yo vivía con mi madre en México mientras mi padre vivía en los EE.UU. Una vez que llegué...

MEMOIR: AN EXISTENCE THAT IS A DREAMLIKE MEMORY

STARK ENVIROMENT

STARK ENVIROMENT

Small dust remolinos (whirlwind) were ordinary sights during the hottest months of the year. That is one of the lingering memories of Albercones, the last of a handful of ranchos (rural communities) where my mother worked as a teacher and where I lived...

“The odds are great. But my spirit is strong. My faith unbreakable. My blood is pure. I shall endure. I will endure.” -Rodolfo Gonzales,  Mexican-American boxer, poet, political organizer, and activist

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