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Home Page    Editorial Page   County Clerk                                                      Ernest Henslee
4/13/2006  I do not know if Lorie Moose knows it or not, but this election seems to have been tainted.  I would suspect that someone out there knows about it, especially since we know for sure that some ballots were shredded that were supposed to be nursing home ballots.  We are not sure who took the ballots there to get them voted, and whether it was an election official or not, or if the ballots had been voted or not.  One gentleman had to take his mother's aunt who is in her 90's to the City Hall, and while there got a citation for electioneering at a polling place.  He just happened to be a strong supporter of Mr. Abbott's and I know that he was not stupid enough to do something like that.  This was pure harassment, because he forgot that he had a couple of stick on signs on his truck supporting Abbott.  Doesn't one of the "Good Ole Boys" have better things to do than harass Abbott's supporters?  Why don't you get out and bust some drug dealers, I mean this county is rampant with drugs, and the "Good Ole Boys" have the time to lurk around city hall and harass a law abiding citizen who works for a living and is trying to get his relative to the polls to vote!!!!

Another instance we found an aunt of the opposition worked in one of the polling locations.  Read 32.054 of the Election Code, I believe and you will see that it is illegal for this to happen.  In the last election, Conway had his secretary working in a polling place, which is illegal also.  Hell in this Corrupt County it is nothing to steal an election.  Remember "Anything and Everything"  I can guarantee you won't find any Abbott employees or relatives working in the polling places.   This place is like living in a 3rd. World dictatorship, and the law enforcement being the military.  I guess they won't rest till they get all 1162 of us. Duh, 3 down, and 1,159 to go.  Here is the law, but in this place who in hell is going to enforce it!!!  We might as well have not even wasted the money to pay for an election, if it isn't going to be a fair one and from what we are hearing and finding out it wasn't....

§ 32.054. INELIGIBILITY OF EMPLOYEE OR RELATIVE OF
CANDIDATE. (a) A person is ineligible to serve as an election
judge or clerk in an election if the person is employed by or
related within the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, as
determined under Chapter 573, Government Code, to an opposed
candidate for a public office or the party office of county chair in
the election. For purposes of this subsection, a candidate whose
name appears on the ballot is not considered to be opposed by a
write-in candidate other than a declared write-in candidate under
Chapter 146.
(b) For purposes of this section, a person is employed by a
candidate if:
(1) the candidate is an owner or officer of a business
entity by which the person is employed;
(2) the candidate is an officer of a governmental
department or agency by which the person is employed; or
(3) the person is under the candidate's supervision in
public or private employment.
(c) In this section, "candidate" means a person who has
taken affirmative action, as described by the law regulating
political funds and campaigns, for the purpose of gaining
nomination or election.

 
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