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Related: About this forumX-post from GD: Dallas County Republicans file lawsuit to kick 128 Democrats off election ballot
Thanks to RandySF for the original thread:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210129006
Dallas County Republicans have filed a lawsuit to have 128 Democrats kicked off the March 6 primary ballot.
The lawsuit, filed in Dallas County late Friday, contends that Dallas County Democratic Party Chairman Carol Donovan didn't sign the petitions of 128 Democratic Party candidates before sending them to the Texas Secretary of State's office, as required by law.
"The Election Code says the chairman, and nobody else, has to sign them," said Elizabeth Alvarez Bingham, a lawyer for the Dallas County Republican Party. "Carol Donovan is the chair. She was supposed to sign them. She didn't do it."
The news stunned some Democrats after a lawyer for their party notified them of the lawsuit Sunday afternoon.
"We have assembled a legal team of Dallas' best and brightest Democratic election law attorneys," Donovan said late Sunday in a news release. "Though we are taking this case seriously, the Republican Party's lawsuit is not supported by Texas law. We will fight to ensure that all Democratic voters in Dallas County can participate in a fair Primary election."
"This is just Republican shenanigans," said state Sen. Royce West, one of the names Republicans want tossed off the ballot. "Republicans are trying to drive a wedge in the Democratic Party because they can't be competitive in the county."
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/01/21/dallas-county-republicans-file-lawsuit-kick-128-democrats-election-ballot
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X-post from GD: Dallas County Republicans file lawsuit to kick 128 Democrats off election ballot (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jan 2018
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Demtexan
(1,588 posts)1. Dallas is blue.
Look out for more crap like this to happen in other places.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)2. Juanita Jean-UPDATE: Dallas Republicans Playing Games
From Juanita Jean http://juanitajean.com/update-dallas-republicans-playing-games/
Well, our buddy Glen Maxey who probably wrote the law and who can read writing put the answer on Facebook.
Here ya go, straight from Glen
Here ya go, straight from Glen
Hear about that frivilous lawsuit filed by the Dallas Republicans? (See I put frivoulous lawsuit and filed by Republicans in the same sentence: Pigs do fly!) They claim the Democratic Chair didnt sign candidate applications. Oh, my. Theres a blank right there on the form for the Chair to sign their name. Oh, but the Chair didnt sign them, the Primary Director did. What a travesty! Oh, my! We can knock 128 Democrats off the ballot because these crazy Democrats didnt follow the law!
HOWEVER, right next to the signature blank on the SOS prescribed application is a cite of the Texas Election Code. Sec. 1.007. And that little gem says ANY employee of an authority can accept a filing for the authority (i.e. the Chair).
As Emily Litella would say: NEVERMIND.Sec. 1.007 DELIVERING, SUBMITTING, AND FILING DOCUMENTS. (a) When this code provides for the delivery, submission, or filing of an application, notice, report, or other document or paper with an authority having administrative responsibility under this code, a delivery, submission, or filing iwith an employee of the authority at the authoritys usual place for conducting official business constitutes filing with the authority.