Editorial: Call off the Dogs in the Texas Election Contest

[gmoses]

Texas Civil Rights Review Editorial

After two months of investigation, knocking on 170 doors, serving folks with orders to divulge their votes, swearing them to oath under penalty of law, and chewing over everything with the finest teeth that money can buy, the ousted opponent of newly elected Texas State Representative Hubert Vo now claims loudly to have “irrefutable proof” that Vo actually lost the election by “at least five votes.”

The conclusion is announced with fanfare and jubilation, because if it stands the test of a legislative hearing, it will unseat an immigrant legislator in Texas who represents for the first time in more then 30 years an actual increase of Democrats in the statehouse.

Never mind Vo’s detailed reading of the same evidence, showing once again that he won the election by some 30 votes. What’s sad about the contest that heads into hearing Thursday morning is that so many voters have been put through so much for so little result. Even the opposition camp admits that their best-case evidence fails to support claims of “widespread fraud” that they were slinging last month.

Instead of grand voter theft, the Republican strike team presents us with a tawdry series of common error and low-level cheating worthy of a robust election among free peoples. Nearly half of ballots alleged to be illegal involve 154 folks who registered one place but moved to another. That’s 154 folks out of 41,000 who might have gone back to their old neighborhoods to vote.

http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/

[rogerashton]

1. We will never again have an election genuinely decided by the voters. n/t

[sonias]

2. Not one damn inch

We aren't giving up one damn inch to the democracy killers who disenfranchised millions of Texas voters.

January 27th folks, he have to draw the line and fight. No more stolen elections by the repukes and certainly not by a House vote.
:mad:

Sonia

[ChicanoPwr]

3. When we say election fraud...

we are tin foil hat conspiracy theoriest and we have to fight tooth and nice to get a fucking hearing, nice huh. :tinfoilhat:

But when they say election fraud, poof, they get one. HMMMM... how fair is that? BASTARDS!!!!!!!:mad:

[Melissa G]

4. Kickin for Greg's great story

http://www.counterpunch.com/moses01312005.html
So Many Watching, So Little Seen
The Real Scandals of the Texas Election
By GREG MOSES

In live internet broadcasts last week, a Master of Discovery appointed by the Texas Legislature to investigate allegations of a stolen election in West Houston indeed found some 'fact patterns' that looked scandalous, but you can't tell it by reading any press reports. The hearing was supposed to look for evidence of voter fraud committed by Democratic voters. Instead, every time one of these curious patterns emerged, it was a hint of possible fraud not by Democratic voters, but against them.

[sonias]

5. Yes kicking for that story link - A must read

That story is indeed making the rounds. It's even linked on the Texas Democratic Party home page http://www.txdemocrats.org/ as well as several blogs including The Burnt Orange Report http://www.burntorangereport.com/

Way to go Greg!!

Sonia