{"id":34758,"date":"2025-11-04T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/34758\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:38:18","slug":"central-texas-votes-on-state-amendments-local-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/34758\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Texas votes on state amendments, local races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 It\u2019s Election Day in Texas. Texans will head to the polls on Tuesday to vote on an assortment of local races and 17 proposed amendments to the Texas state constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/texas-voters-decide-17-amendments-141842293.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Texas\u2019 proposed amendments,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas\u2019 proposed amendments,<\/a> 10 of 17, focus on tax policy, including Proposition 13. Prop 13 would lower property taxes by raising the homestead exemption in the state from $100,000 to $140,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Polls close at 7 p.m. in Texas. Follow along below as this live blog will be updated with new Election Day information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Election day resources:<\/p>\n<p>Live blog<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 It\u2019s Election Day in Texas. Texans will head to the polls on Tuesday to vote&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6513,21984,8073,27,29,28,21983],"class_list":{"0":"post-34758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-election-day","9":"tag-proposed-amendments","10":"tag-proposition-13","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-texas-state-constitution"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}