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It’s Election Day! Harris County voters can find information about polling locations with estimated wait times, ballot measures, and voter identification requirements on the Harris County Elections Department website. Your voice matters. Make it count!
Read moreIn honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library is proud to feature a special traveling exhibit: 100 Years After the Indian Citizenship Act: The Continuing Struggle to Guarantee Voting Rights to Native Americans.
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Election Day is still a few weeks away, but you can cast your ballot today. Early voting in Texas runs from October 21, 2024 to November 1, 2024. Election Day is November 5, 2024. The Harris County Attorney Conference Center is an early voting center and will be an Election Day voting site.
The Harris County Attorney Conference Center is on 1019 Congress St, Houston TX, 77002. Voting is downstairs, at the basement level. Upon entering the building, there will be election workers in the lobby, ready to assist you.
For more election information, please visit harrisvotes.com and check out our blog, Your Guide to the General/Presidential Election 2024. Happy voting!
The Friday after Thanksgiving is National Native American Heritage Day, although it is perhaps more commonly thought of as Black Friday, a coincidence that some have rebuked, as it links a reverent celebration of Native peoples and culture with the start of the holiday shopping season and the busiest most consumer-driven day of the year. Some have suggested alternatives to the rampant consumerism of the day: acknowledge native land, explore the many digital exhibits available online at the National Museum of the American Indian, or lift up indigenous voices by learning more about the continuing struggle to give Native Americans equal access at the ballot box. Review the links provided within.
Read moreWednesday, October 26, is Vote Early Day! We at the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library are official partners in this annual non-partisan effort. Our goal in joining up with this worthy cause is to encourage early voting and to ensure that busy schedules, Election Day lines, or last minute problems won’t stop you from sharing your voice. Included in this post are links to the information and resources you need to be informed about where, when, and how to cast your ballot and be counted in Harris County.
Read moreWhat’s behind the name? “Ex Libris Juris” is Latin for “from the books of law” and much of the information here will relate to the legal information collected and curated by the Law Library. Additionally, “Ex Libris” has long appeared on bookplates – labels appearing inside the front cover of books – and has acquired the connoted meaning “from the library of” to show ownership of the book. Using this connotation, the phrase becomes “from the library of law” and better describes the posts about digital resources, event announcements, and research tips that will regularly appear here.
