Senate Hearing on Monday to Expand Countywide Polling Places - Very Bad Idea

by: LubbockDem

Fri Apr 13, 2007 at 10:12 PM CDT

Lubbock County was the only county to conduct the pilot program in November 2006.

The results of the pilot were crystal clear, but totally excluded from the Secretary of State's report to the legislature. The results?

Overall voting declined by 3.6%
Voting in the top 10 minority precincts declined 25.7%
There was no cost savings.
There was no influx of first-time voters.

I was part of the group that implemented this pilot. It failed miserably, but the Lubbock County Elections office and Secretary of State's office have continued to be cheerleaders for this bad policy. They have both submitted reports that are absent of any negative results.

I'll be at the hearing and hope that the Senators will listen.
Hope that some of you who care about voting for all Texans can join me.

You can download the full report at: http://www.tdw.org/S...

College Students May See Relief

by: LubbockDem

Wed Jan 17, 2007 at 10:09 PM CST

The Texas Reps who chose to vote AGAINST the bill (and Texas students) are: Hensarling, Barton, Culberson, Brady, Conaway, Granger, Thornberry, Neugebauer, Marchant, Burgess, Carter and Sessions. Sam Johnson didn't bother to vote at all.

If we can get Texas students to vote against these reps who vote against them, there will be no "safe" Republican districts in the state.

Source: H.R. 5 (Roll call vote 32).

TX-19 Ricketts endorsed by Star-Telegram and Esquire

by: LubbockDem

Mon Oct 16, 2006 at 04:01 PM CDT