HOUSTON — Saturday, Could 7 election is Election Day in Texas.

Listed here are a few issues you must know.

No. 1 – There are two proposed amendments to the Texas Structure. The primary would enable the state legislature to scale back the property tax restrict on the properties of aged or disabled residents. The second would improve the homestead exemption for varsity district property taxes from $25,000 to $40,000.

No. 2 – There is a particular election to fill the Texas Home District 147 seat that was vacated when Garnet Coleman retired. Democrats Danielle Keys Bess and Jolanda Jones are on the poll.

Earlier than heading to the polls, ensure you’re registered!  There’s a straightforward option to examine on the Texas Secretary of State’s web site.

Harris County makes it simple to seek out your voting location.  Not solely that, they let wait occasions for every of them. This is a map you need to use to seek out out the place to vote and the way lengthy it will take you.

The State of Texas additionally makes it simple to seek out your voting location, wherever you might be within the state.  This is the place you will discover that info.

You possibly can see the amendments and the candidates on the Could 7 ballots by checking this web page on the state’s election website.  Be sure you’re wanting on the Could 7 election info. 

You’ll need an appropriate type of identification to vote. Based on VoteTexas.gov, these are the suitable types of ID:

• Texas Driver License issued by the Texas Division of Public Security (DPS)
• Texas Election Identification Certificates issued by DPS
• Texas Private Identification Card issued by DPS
• Texas Handgun License issued by DPS
• United States Navy Identification Card containing the individual’s {photograph}
• United States Citizenship Certificates containing the individual’s {photograph}
• United States Passport (ebook or card)

If you haven’t any of the above-listed types of ID and might’t get one, you possibly can convey one of many following in an effort to request a “Affordable Obstacle Declaration:”

• Copy or unique of a authorities doc that reveals the voter’s identify and an handle, together with the voter’s voter registration certificates
• Copy of or unique present utility invoice
• Copy of or unique financial institution assertion
• Copy of or unique authorities examine
• Copy of or unique paycheck
• Copy of or unique of (a) a licensed home (from a U.S. state or territory) delivery certificates or (b) a doc confirming delivery admissible in a courtroom of regulation which establishes the voter’s identification (which can embody a international delivery doc)

This info is from VoteTexas.gov. At voting areas, you’re not allowed to make use of wi-fi units or digital/mechanical units to report sound or photographs inside 100 ft of voting stations.

Right here’s what you must NOT use at voting areas.

• Cell telephones
• Digital camera
• Pill computer systems
• Laptop computer pc
• Sound recorder

Every other gadget that may talk wirelessly or report sound/photographs.

You’re additionally not speculated to put on clothes associated to a candidate, measure or political social gathering that’s on the present poll. You possibly can, nevertheless, put on one thing associated to a candidate, measure or political social gathering that’s NOT on the poll.

What are Texas’ propositions 1 and a couple of?