Dallas judge dismisses GOP lawsuit to take Dems off of ballot (TX)

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BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 04/23/18 06:21 PM EDT

... The case, which was brought by the Dallas County Republican Party, aimed to remove over 80 local Democrats from the November ballot.

Dallas Republicans cited the Democrats' county chair Carol Donovan not signing the candidates' ballot applications prior to submitting them ...

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/384504-dallas-judge-dismisses-gop-lawsuit-to-take-dems-off-of-ballot

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1. Judge dismisses Dallas Republicans' lawsuit to kick Democrats off the November ballot

BY EMMA PLATOFF
APRIL 23, 2018 2 PM

... The Dallas County Republican Party sued in January, alleging that Carol Donovan, the Democrats’ county chair, did not sign the candidates’ ballot applications before submitting them, as required by law. But State District Judge Eric Moyé ruled Monday that Dallas County Republican Party Chairwoman Missy Shorey did not have standing to bring the lawsuit, handing Donovan and the Democrats a win.

Democrats dismissed the lawsuit as a partisan attack, saying Republicans aimed to win in court because they knew they could not win at the ballot box. And some criticized the lawsuit — whose Democratic targets were largely minorities — as an attempt to disenfranchise voters of color.

“This frivolous lawsuit was a thinly veiled attempt by the Dallas County Republican Party to take away the ability of minority voters in Dallas County to elect the candidates of their choice,” said state Rep. Eric Johnson, a black Dallas Democrat who would have been excluded from the ballot had Republicans prevailed in the lawsuit. "The Republican Party seems to be doing everything in its power to show minority voters that it has little regard for them at the national, state, and now local level” ...

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/04/23/dallas-texas-republican-lawsuit-kick-democrats-off-ballot-dismissed/

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2. Train gathers steam. More coal please....okay....make it diesel....er...well....solar....:))

[Leith]

3. rethugs Can't Win on Their Ideas or in a Fair Election

The only thing they have left is their bag'o'dirty tricks.

But, as the judge said, rethugs have no standing to bring the suit. As Col. Klink used to say...

Dissssmisssssed!

[Stallion]

4. Since All Dallas County Judges are Democrats I'm Not Surprised

...seems kind of like a hail-Mary unless they have intended to appeal to the more conservative appellate courts