Waiting for final results from Houston and Harris County has become an unwelcome Texas political ritual. The county’s sheer size is part of the problem, but so is party squabbling over counting procedures.

The Harris County Elections Process is in the spotlight again after a last-minute change was announced days before a primary run-off election.

Harris County Election officials held logic and accuracy testing Monday for the May 7 elections.

The resignation of Harris County’s Elections Administrator isn’t stopping the criticism over last week’s primary. Now, there are claims that the cameras watching the votes being counted were turned off.

The Harris County Republican party is holding a press conference Wednesday to call for an independent elections overseer following the resignation of Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria.

Here are things to know for Wednesday, March 9:

A bi-partisan lawsuit was filed Monday against the Harris County Elections Administrator.

Republicans are suing and Democrats want a full review after Harris County missed deadlines to have its votes tallied and failed to count 10,000 ballots in its initial returns.

Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria submitted her resignation during Commissioners Court on Tuesday.

The Harris County Republican Party announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria during a press conference Monday afternoon.

The office of Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria announced an oversight of approximately 10,000 mail-in ballots not added into March 1′s election count.

Harris County Republican leadership said the primary election problems were due to a variety of issues related to voting machines, training, and incorrect ballots.

Harris County Republican Party Chairman Cindy Siegel is joining Texas State Senator Paul Bettencourt, HCRP Legal Counsel Steve Mitby and the Party’s Legal Team to discuss the widespread problems and legal action addressing what they claim is a failure of Election Administrator Isabel Longoria to properly manage the primary election.

Harris County election officials won’t have primary election results by the statutory deadline due to damaged ballots, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s office.

Early voting in the first primary of the 2022 midterm elections is starting in Texas.

The challenged provision makes it a state jail felony for election officials to “solicit the submission” of an application to vote by mail if the voter did not request it.

With the March 1 Primary Election about six weeks away, now is a good time to check the status of your mail-in ballot application.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo responded Friday to the Texas secretary of state’s audit of the county’s election results, saying it’s been 11 months after the 2020 elections and officials have found no evidence of widespread election fraud.

HOUSTON – Harris County has some new voting machines. Isabel Longoria, the county’s elections administrator, introduced the new machines to the public Wednesday. They’re touch-screen voting systems. Longoria said the technology allows you to pick your language and your font size, and it also creates a paper trail. Longoria said the first election on these machines will be May 1.

Moreover, a request for comment from the Harris County Attorney’s Office was not returned Tuesday. They are listed in sections 31.031(d) and 31.032(c) of the Texas Election Code. The letter states the following:“As per Director Ingram’s letter, the Secretary of State received documentation from the Harris County Clerk’s office on July 28, 2020. Longoria did address county commissioners during Tuesday’s meeting, however, to give an update on the Dec. 12 runoff elections. During that update, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo vowed to support Longoria on whatever she needed to run an election without errors.

HOUSTON – On Sunday, about 100 County Clerk’s Office staff members worked to process about 400 presiding election judges. We have over 800 Election Day voting centers,” Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins said. Workers made sure election judges had their list of voters for each precinct and other items they need to process voters on Election Day. “We give them essentially the control boards that they’ll be using to check in voters on election days, but we don’t have those machines yet. He said there will be over 11,000 workers on Election Day to make sure all votes get counted.