On Sunday, January 21, the Texas Republican Party filed a lawsuit in state court to remove 128 Democrats from the Democratic primary ballot in Dallas County. See this story. The Republican Party says there is a paperwork flaw with the filings. The case is Dallas County Republican Party v Dallas County Democratic Party, Dallas District Court, DC-18-821. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
The United Coalition welcomes the new Candidate for Vice President of the United States (November 2020) BJ Jordan [Dallas Cowboys].
The United Coalition has been using the pure proportional representation (PT) voting system for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PR works fine.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
What New Age paperwork *requirement* means any thing any more ???
Being a citizen, an Elector-Voter, a candidate, an officer, etc, etc. ???
More and more excuses to be LAWLESS — which leads, of course, to guess what —
T-y-r-a-n-n-y
The court petition is available from this article;
http://keranews.org/post/dallas-county-republicans-file-lawsuit-throw-128-democrats-primary-ballot
The applications are at the end.
The article is misleading in that it refers to petitions. While judicial candidates for primary nomination in Dallas County are required to include petitions, the issue is the applications for the primary ballot (the applications for judicial candidates have a space for indicating the number of petition sheets, which the applications do have marked in).
In Texas, primary candidates for county and precinct offices, and district offices located in a single county file with the party county chair.
The issue is whether Dallas County Chair Carol Donovan properly accepted the applications, by signing them. The first twenty five applications in early November have a very neat signature, and it happens that one of them is Carol Donovan’s own application to run for Party County Chair, which is also signed before her as candidate. That signature is notarized, which would require Donovan to appear before the notary and sign the application after proving identity.
The rest of the applications have a scribbled signature, and there are other differences.
When accepting the applications, Donovan is a state actor and exercising a ministerial duty. I expect all the candidates will be able to sue Dallas County Democratic Party and Carol Donovan, just the same as if they were filing with a state official and the state official bungled the application.
Probably nothing will come of it unless it turns out someone like Clay Jenkins or John Wiley Price ordered someone else to sign the applications, or that the filing fees were embezzled.
Some curiosities are that both candidates in the dispute where one candidate filled in a misleading statement that was read to voters, and may have disenfranchised Republican, Libertarian, and Green voters, may have their applications invalidated. In addition, a challenger to Donovan for Democratic Chair may have had his application invalidated.