Articles Posted in the 2008 Texas Elections Category
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Judge Rules Democratic Party Suit Over iVotronic Voting System Has Merit
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis ruled that a lawsuit filed by the Texas Democratic Party and two Dallas County voters regarding the manner in which the county’s iVotronic voting system counts straight ticket ballots had merit and should be decided by a three-judge panel.
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Latino Voters Suit Over Democratic Primary Reinstated
A lawsuit filed by Hispanic primary voters against the Texas Democratic Party alleging that the presidential delegate allocation system discriminated against Hispanics has been reinstated by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. A federal district judge dismissed the suit last year. Upon review of that decision, the appeals court ruled that the case should have [...]
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TX HD 11: Walker Will Contest Defeat By Hopson On House Floor
UPDATE: 2:09 p.m.: A copy of the election challenge filed with the Secretary of State by Walker is here (.pdf). UPDATE, 1:50 p.m.: We have obtained from the Texas Secretary of State’s Office a copy of the Election Challenge filed by Walker. We’re scanning it into a .pdf and will be posting a link shortly. [...]
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TX HD 105: Texas Democratic Party Drops Federal Voting Rights Lawsuit
The Texas Democratic Party has withdrawn a request for a restraining order against Dallas County elections officials over contested votes in the House District 105 race. The move clears the last barrier for elections officials to certify the race, declare incumbent State Rep. Linda Harper Brown (R-Irving) the winner, and cement a narrow 76-74 majority [...]
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TX SD 17: Huffman Thinks Schools Have All The Money They Need
It should come as no surprise that Joan Hoffman, who is running against Chris Bell in the runoff for the open seat in Senate District 17, doesn’t seem to have a clue about substantive matters of public policy. As noted in the TV commercial above, Huffman didn’t know how to fix the school funding problem, [...]
