Today’s federal court order enjoins State Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office from enforcing the new state election code that makes it a felony to possess another person’s ballot. The intent of the law is to prevent mass voter fraud where unvoted mail-in ballots are collected and voted en masse by a third party in order to commit voter fraud. Unsurprisingly, the democrats are complaining. I’m trying to find out who the federal judge was and who appointed him/her. I suspect that information will be quite enlightening.
Abbott’s office is filing an immediate appeal.
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Oh and who is surprised that the demonrats are bitching about this? …….. crickets in the background.
First again? O.K., so what this is saying, is that I can’t mail my mom’s ballot for her, in a LOCKED mailbox? Dang, I’m a lawbreaker! Call me a rebel!
Dang it! Sekund!
All I know is I want a cupon for Phat-Ho’s Chicken and Ribs…… ‘Cuz that ain’t illegal.
#2, actually that would be “felon”. Yes, the law is not flexible enough to allow that sort of thing. Perhaps if an education campaign had been undertaken to educate people who may inadvertently committing felonies, things would be different. or if some sort of waiver signed by the voter was acceptable. but the intent is to shut down groups like ACORN that collect unvoted mail in ballots and vote them en masse illegally.
It’s a Clinton appointee, T. John Ward.
http://www.lonestarproject.net/files/FindingsofFactandConclusionofLaw.pdf
This judge seems to think his opinion on ballot security should supersede the opinion of the duly elected representatives of the state of Texas. That, my friends, is called legislating from the bench.
And it’s an illustration of why the executive matters, at the federal or the state level.
Do you kids really want Kinky Friedman or Chris Bell making appointments in the state of Texas because you’re mad about no appraisal cap tightening? Something more to consider…
Thanks Kev. And you make an excellent point about appointments. And even if they get tossed out during the next election cycle those judges usually become “visiting judges”. they NEVER LEAVE THE SYSTEM. They keep turning up like bad pennies, screwing up the justice system everywhere they go. Every time a duly elected judge goes on vacation (or just does not want his name attached to a controversial ruling) a “visiting judge” is brought in to do the honors. Jokes on you voters, you just thought you had the last laugh!
#5:
Hmmm, I was not aware of that, but makes sense. The problem is, is that my mom (89) can’t make it to the polls and thanks to LST angels, she has a ballot mailed to her. I mail it for her, because she never mails anything from her mailbox (thanks to theft from her mailbox). So mailing the ballot for her would make me a felon? Darn the bad apples who make us good apples feel rotten.
Kevin
I’m not a “kid” thank you very much. I’ll vote for whomever or whatever I please. No one, including you (dr or no dr), will take that from me! .
#9 Comment deleted by LST. Thank you ever so much!
Stop your flaming and I will stop my deleting. You are welcome.
The Moderator
Moderator,
Sorry I said anything LIKE THIS!
#6 Kevin (Dr. Whited)
What if I’m ok with Carole Strayhorn making these appointments?
Moderator
I am sorry! Didn’t know that conservative viewpoints were slammed here and that only liberal viewpoints were “counted” I’m not flaming anyone and if I disagree with a poster (dr. whatever), I guess I’m a flamer and troll! News to me!
And I deleted nothing but your flaming parts. Not your “conservative view points”.
The Moderator
#13
Care to share about the “flaming parts”? It sounds a little kinky to me, but not in the gubernatorial way…
Wow, Dr. Whited is quite the agitator lately. I don’t think his use of ‘kids’ is exactly condescending myself, but hey.
And what the heck? Since when is it such a bad thing for one conservative to challenge another on points such as this? Nobody’s telling anybody that they can’t vote for Kinky or whoever. This is only a debate, and I thought it was all about getting everyone to think…
#15
Sorry, I still can’t stop thinking about the “flaming parts” referenced in post #13.
This is a family website, can’t have no flaming parts here…
DAMN!
I’ll just have to keep ‘em all to myself.
What about parts that just smolder? Are they acceptable?
Let’s move the discussion of flaming parts to the open comments and return this thread to what ever it was before the parts were flamed.
The Golden Rule of Flaming:
May your flames be witty, insulting,
interesting, paradoxical, funny, illogical,
caustic, sarcastic, even inconsistent -
but never, ever, let them be boring.
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Very well…Democrats are whiny babies whenever they think their ability to infringe on the validity of the voting process is interrupted.
Neo #9 & #13
I concur with Neo completely!! For Kevin to gloss over the Guv’s dispicable record by saying,’wer’re mad about no appraisal cap tightening? Hey Kev, you convienietly forgot the borders, the tax increase, the TransTex sellout, his inept administration, and the deplorable way the LST people we’re treated at the convention???
I’m with Neo, I will vote as I DAMN well please! It will probably be for Republican judges, but not for Perry, Dewnothing, and KayBaby, for me.
You might remind them, they have to EARN votes, those sellouts!
The GOP would do better with less name calling of it’s supporters, and more time in trying to adhere to the principles for which they we’re elected. They seem to have forgotten, and hold their constituents in the same thinly vieled contempt as the Dims.
Got news for what passes for GOP ‘leadership’,
if they get voted out by disgusted supporters, it’s their OWN fault, not the voters!!!
Hey dummies, “a federal judge” did this, if Rorschach is right. He is there forever, and has nothing to do with Perry etc…
#23, yes this was a federal judge and he is appointed for life. I was trying to draw an analogy concerning judgeships in Texas. Judges are elected in Texas, but when a judge steps down/dies/is indited/etc. an appointment is made to fill out the term until an election is held. The Governor makes those appointments. Once the guy gets appointed, he qualifies to serve as a visiting judge anywhere else in the state, even in courts he is not qualified to try a case in were he serving as a lawyer in the case, such as probate and family law etc. as I understand the system (Neo might be able to clarify points for me.). those bad pennies never go away.
Do you really want to trust that sort of power to Chris Bell? I’m not prepared to do so myself.
Doesn’t every organization have a way to “kick out” member who don’t follow the rules set down. Can’t we “Kick out” Republicans who don’t follow the party platform. And I don’t just me “unelect” then, or defeat them in the primaries.
Bascially kick the out of the republican party, and make it KNOWN to everyone. “Rep. Mr. Smith has been kicked out of the Republican party. He will no longer receive support or monies from the Local/State/National Republican Party.”
See how many of them stray from the party platform ( and NOT just the party “line” because we know THAT doesn’t follow the platform…), because it would be a killer for their political carreer.
When the voting process, the outlet and mechanism of change of a free democratic citizenry, is so corrupted, what options are left?
Screw the federal court. Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
25: This is why I would love to have closed primaries, where you have to declare your party affiliation sometime in early February for the March primary season.
It still may not stop all the RINOs, but I think it would do a great deal to curb them when you can’t just come off the street and blow up a party’s primary.