City of Brownsville Proposition B (Charter Amendment: Moral Turpitude Determination for Non-Felony Convictions)
Brownsville city, Texas
My vote power
High
Election date
November 3, 2026
How do we calculate my vote power?
What goes into the rating: Representation: how much weight one vote carries here compared with a statewide vote — the smaller the district, the more each vote counts. Decisiveness: how likely this race is to be close, based on past results or current analyst ratings, plus the number of candidates.
Representation: High · 73 out of 100
This district is a small slice of its state, so each vote here carries much more weight than a vote in a statewide race. About 189,177 people live here.
Show the representation math
score = 50 + 50 × ln(state population ÷ this district's) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50 + 50 × ln(30,188,424 ÷ 189,177) ÷ ln(50,000) = 73.44, measured against a statewide vote in TX (grades: 66+ high, 33+ normal, otherwise low; a statewide race is the 50 baseline)
High representation → My vote power: High.
Ballot Measure
Supports: Anti-Corruption
Creates an automatic recall process in the Brownsville City Charter for a mayor or commissioner convicted of a crime that is not a felony and not a Class C misdemeanor. The city attorney would have to ask a Cameron County district court to decide whether the crime involved moral turpitude, meaning dishonest or immoral conduct, and if the judge says it did, the City Commission must call a recall election at the next date allowed by state law without any recall petition being gathered.
A YES vote means
A mid-level criminal conviction can trigger a court review and, if the judge finds moral turpitude, voters get a recall election on that officeholder without residents having to collect the recall signatures the charter now requires.
A NO vote means
Removing an officeholder convicted of such a crime still requires the existing certified recall petition signed by voters, and no court review is triggered automatically.
Source: brownsvilletx.portal.civicclerk.com