TEXAS NEWS SPOTLIGHT

NO SUCCESSOR NAMED AS TEXAS ELECTIONS CHIEF PREPARES TO LEAVE Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson is scheduled to leave office Friday, July 17, and as of press time Tuesday, July 14, Gov. Greg Abbott had not publicly announced a successor.

Nelson announced June 2 that she would step down after three and a half years leading the agency. Her departure places a change at the top of the state's electi…