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Gothmog

(182,128 posts)
8. No ruling yet but this article is interesting
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 03:20 PM
Aug 2012

The judge has not issued a stay yet and a ruling is expected soon. The ABC station has a good article on the hear and it is clear that the GOP election administrator is not a happy camper http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus&id=8766634

For two hours on Wednesday, the state's attorney general office pleaded with judge to turn his decision over. He didn't seem inclined to do so but it'll take a day or two before he makes a ruling.

On Wednesday, on the way out of the hearing, we wanted to talk to Keith Ingram, the secretary of state's director of elections No one knows the issues better than him but he wasn't talking.

"You're the director of elections, right?" we asked Ingram.

"Right," he replied.

"So you do know more about the law than your spokesman, right?" we asked.

"You're going to talk to my spokesman," he said.

"You just won't talk to us about it," we said.

"They have consistently the lowest voter turnout of all the states. Something's gotta be done about it," attorney for Project Vote Chad Dunn said. "Our legislature doesn't look for solutions to that problem, they look for more obstacles for the ballot box."

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Good. Celebrate2012Victory Aug 2012 #1
In Texas NoPasaran Aug 2012 #2
For Texas? Gothmog Aug 2012 #3
Victory for Voter Registration in Texas sonias Aug 2012 #4
Awesome! onestepforward Aug 2012 #5
Hearing today on Stay of Decision Gothmog Aug 2012 #6
TX Redistricting had a bit on it sonias Aug 2012 #7
No ruling yet but this article is interesting Gothmog Aug 2012 #8
Request for Stay was denied Gothmog Aug 2012 #9
Well it's a victory for now! sonias Aug 2012 #10
Judge refuses to lift ban on Texas voter laws sonias Aug 2012 #11
Fifth Cir. to hear appeal on Stay on Sept 6 Gothmog Aug 2012 #12
As an attorney from the Harris County Attorney's Office said yesterday thevoiceofreason Aug 2012 #13
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