City of Brownsville Proposition I (Charter Amendment: Audit and Oversight Committee Authority to Engage External Auditors)
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
Gives Brownsville's Audit and Oversight Committee direct authority over outside auditors. The amendment to Article V, Section 28(A) would let the committee hire and fire external auditors and advisors as it needs them, and make it responsible for approving the services those firms perform and the fees they are paid.
A YES vote means
The audit committee, not city administration alone, controls which outside auditors work for the city and what they are paid to do.
A NO vote means
Hiring outside auditors and approving their fees stays with the existing city process, and the committee keeps only its current responsibilities.
Source: brownsvilletx.portal.civicclerk.com