Fact checks of public claims by Harris County officials and candidates, from both parties, held to the same evidentiary standard. Every check cites a primary source. Claims we cannot source get no verdict rather than a guess.
The Houston Defender obtained the registrar’s records. More than 319,000 Harris County registrations are in suspense. The county has the number and has not published it.
The registrar says roughly 300,000. The Texas Secretary of State’s March 2026 file says 198,369. The gap is 101,631, and only one of the two numbers has a document behind it.
HIT Strategies surveyed 600 likely voters for the Plummer campaign in mid August. The Sanchez campaign answered with a number backed by no poll at all.
Texas law lets a county levy a tax only when at least four of five Commissioners Court members are present. Exactly four were on September 17.