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FEATURED PERSPECTIVES
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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Dissent and the American Struggle Between Good and Evil
“Do you say that it is always good to be a non-conformist because you believe that, almost necessarily, the establishment, the institutions, are going to embody that which is the worst, rather than the best, of humankind? That, under the circumstances, almost...
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 diez años yo vivía con mi madre en México mientras mi padre…
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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
“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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Perspective Op_Ed in Houston Chronicle (12/2/2007)
Minority votes tell a story for Houston
Perspective Op_Ed Houston Chronicle (3/30/06)
After the marching's done Hispanics must go vote
Perspective quoted in Houston Chronicle (9/23/01)
Group hopes to mobilize Houston's Hispanics to vote
Perspective quoted in THE ATLANTIC (10/20/15)
Will Houston Elect Its First Latino Mayor? A homegrown son thinks he can bring all Houstonians to the ballot box and make history.
“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
ELECTIONS AND VOTER PARTICIPATION
RECENT REPORTS
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VOTING REPORTS
WHO VOTES, WHY AND DOES IT REALLY MATTER? Profiling the Harris County electorate and change in the nation’s third largest political jurisdiction
These charts and tables were compiled to present at the Rice University Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies lecture series entitled Inside the 2016 Elections: Who Votes, Why and Does it Really Matter? CLICK...
Age Profile of Early Voters By Personal Appearance: Harris County, TX, March 1, 2016, Primary Elections
Age Profile of Early Voters By Personal Appearance: Harris County, TX, March 1, 2016, Primary Elections The objective of these charts is to provide data that show how much of the vote various categories of age groups constituted of the total Early Vote in the March 1,...
MARCH 1, 2016, PRIMARY ELECTIONS PRIMER: Harris County, Texas USA
ABOUT THE MARCH 1, 2016, PRIMARY ELECTIONS PRIMER: Harris County View PowerPoint by CLICKING HERE:MARCH 1_2016-PRIMARY_ELECTIONS_PRIMER - Harris County ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOAL OF THIS...
Turnout for City of Houston, November 5, 2013, Election, by Zip Code Area
The intent of this spreadsheet is to provide the participation rate in the City of Houston's November 5, 2013, Election, by zip code area. For this reason, it only includes zip code areas that showed registered voters and voters during this election cycle. Any...
HARRIS COUNTY FEMALE VOTE IN NOVEMBER ELECTIONS: Overall Turnout and by Age Group
These charts pertaining the female vote in Harris County elections were prepared for the May 22, 2015 Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Women's Leadership Conference. click HERE HARRIS COUNTY FEMALE VOTE
HOUSTON VOTER PROFILE: What does the electorate look like today? What effect might it have on the 2015 Mayoral Election
This statistical profile of the population, voting age population citizen voting age population and registered voters for Blacks, Asians, Hispanics and Whites in the City of Houston is based on the author’s tabulations of the Census Bureau’s 2000, 2010 and 2013 Census...
UNDERSTANDING VOTER TURNOUT: Who’s Voting and Who’s Not Voting in the Nation’s 3rd Largest County
This presentation provides charts created using official election results and U.S. Census demographic data for Harris County, Texas. The charts provide a look at voter turnout by household income, Spanish-surnamed voters, voting age population, race and ethnicity of...
PARTISAN VOTE DISTRIBUTION IN 2014 MIDTERM ELECTION: Voting in City of Houston Council Districts and more
After even-number year elections in which County, State and Federal Elections are held, politicos wonder how votes were distributed within and outside the City of Houston. This presentation endeavors to answer the question by providing charts displaying the...
Understanding Latino Political Empowerment
The objective of this presentation is to provide context to the discussion of Hispanic electoral empowerment. See Here
Estimated 2008 Vote in City of Houston
The following table provides a glimpse of how the make-up of the electorate impacts the distribution of votes in Harris County. See Here
2020 ELECTION
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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
Charts
25 ZIP CODE AREAS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTERS IN THE 2022 HARRIS COUNTY (TX) DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PRIMARY ELECTIONS
These zip code areas produced 52% of all Republican Primary voters. These zip code areas produced 39% of all Democratic Primary voters. ABOUT The objective of this presentation is to examined what zip code areas in Harris County produced the highest number of voters...
November 2, 2021 – JOINT GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS -Harris County Unofficial Early Voting Totals for Period of Oct. 18-22 by COLLEGE District
11-2-2021-Election-Unofficial-StatsDownload This table will be updated at intervals until the end of the early voting period for the November 2, Election. The statistics are based on the Early Voting and Mail Ballot Rosters posted on the Elections website during the...
How did Houston’s Demographics change from 2010 to 2020, according to Census Redistricting Data?
2010-vs-2020-COH-Council-Districts-Demographics-1Download ABOUT This is an apples-to-apples comparison of the 2010 and 2020 demographics for the City of Houston. The 2010 statistics come from the April 11, 2011, City of Houston Revised Redistricting Plan which was...
Voter Turnout Rates of 18-24-year-old Electorate: 2012-2019 Municipal, #Midterms and #Presidential Elections
Five Takeaways from Comparing the #Top10 #Harris_County (TX) ZipCodes with HIGHEST and LOWEST #VoterTurnout in #2016election.
FIVE TAKEAWAYS Here are five takeaways from comparing the #Top10 #Harris_County (TX) ZipCodes with HIGHEST and LOWEST #VoterTurnout in #2016election: • The ten Zip Codes with the highest voter turnout account for a larger share of the vote than the percent of...
1st-Day Early Voting By Personal Appearance Totals in Harris County, TX Midterm and Presidential Elections 2006-2018
After SHATTERING the #midterm first-day #earlyvoting mark, #HarrisCntyTX #voters topped first-day early vote highs set in the historic 2008 and 2012 #PresidentialElections when Barrack Obama was on the ballot. Still, Harris County voters...
Voting Method Voters in Different Age Groups Chose to Cast Ballot in Recent Midterm and Presidential Elections: Mail, Early, Election Day
CLICK HERE 2010-2012-2014-2016 ELECTIONS_ Age Group-Vote Type This presentation provides voting information by age group for the recent midterm and presidential elections. Providing insight about who votes and the method use to cast a ballot is critical to...
Voter Registration and Voting by Age Group: Harris county (TX) 2014, 2015 and 2016 November Elections
Voter participation is highest in presidential election years, followed by midterm election years. Municipal election years attract the least number of voters. While the intrinsic reasons for the year-to-year fluctuation of voter turnout are difficult to know, there...
Harris County, TX ESTIMATED Voter Registration Roll Comparison: July 2014 vs July 2018
NOTE: The estimated Spanish-surnamed registered voters in the following tables were produced by performing queries using two different Spanish-surnamed lists. The number of Spanish surnames on the list use to conduct the query impacts the total of...
POLITICAL PERIODIC TABLE FOR TEXAS: Citizen Voting Age Population is key to understanding election results
Click HERE Political Periodic Table for TX Does the Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) in a political jurisdiction predict the outcome of an election? If so, what is the combination of White, Black, Hispanic and Asian CVAP that would turn a Red political...
ESTIMATED CITIZEN VOTING AGE POPULATION AND ESTIMATED REGISTERED VOTERS BY ETHNICITY IN INCORPORATED CITIES AND UNINCORPORATED HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS
HARRIS COUNTY (TX) VOTER REGISTRATION ROLL BY ZIP CODE AND “ACTIVE” OR “SUSPENSE” VOTER STATUS (Source: Official Harris County Voter Records as of June 1, 2018)
This is a product of the Hector de Leon Perspective. It is based on queries performed using US Census Bureau surnamed lists on the Countywide Voter Registration Roll obtained from the Office of Harris County (Texas) Tax Assessor Collector and Voter Registrar. Click...
2018 Harris County, TX May Primary Runoff Electorate By Age Group (EXCLUDING Election Day Voters)
NOTE: During the May 22 election cycle in Harris County, TX, sixty-six (66) percent of the vote was cast before Election Day. And of those voters, a little over half cast their ballot by mail. Given that ninety-nine (99) percent of the persons voting by mail in the...
Voter Turnout for 2006, 2010 and 2014 Democratic and Republican Primary Runoff Elections, Harris Cnty TX
A Glimpse into the Age and Gender of Early Voters in the 2018 Primary Elections in Harris County, TX
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
“There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.”
-Richard Rodriguez, American writer, author of Hunger of Memory
LOOKING INWARD
CULTURE
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MEMOIR: AN EXISTENCE THAT IS A DREAMLIKE MEMORY
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“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