There are approximately eight lawsuits against the Texas U.S. House and state legislative district boundaries, mostly in federal court. But from the filings so far, it appears the plaintiffs will not seek a postponement of the March 2022 primary. Instead, if they prevail, they will probably depend on past Texas precedents when the boundaries of many districts changed after that year’s primary was over. In those cases, the primary results for the districts whose boundaries changed were set aside. Instead, candidate filing re-opened in those districts, and the winners were determined in November as though they were special elections. In Texas special elections, there are no party nominees. Everyone runs in the election, and if no one gets 50%, there is a run-off.
In 1996 in Texas, 13 of the U.S. House districts (out of 30 districts) used the special election procedures. The boundaries of the 1990’s districts had been changed after the 1996 primary by a federal court. Someone got over 50% in November in most of those districts. In the three districts in which no one got 50% in November, there was a run-off on December 10, 1996. Thanks to Jim Riley for this news.
Cost of 2020 TX primary ???
@DR,
Contact the SOS. But you would also need to contact the county clerks in the 254 counties since they pay for early voting. HTH.
The special elections would not necessarily come in 2022. The district court case for Bush v. Vera, was Vera v. Richards. George W. Bush had defeated Ann Richards in 1994, but Dan Morales was still AG and appealed the case.
The district court had rendered its decision in September 1994. The SCOTUS heard the appeal in December 1995 and affirmed the lower court decision in June 1996.
The time lag had allowed the new boundaries to be drawn, but not before the 1996 primaries. Most of the districts were only modestly changed, but outlying districts had to be rerun even if only a few precincts were changed. Some of the special elections featured a rematch of the Republican or Democratic primary. Only one district flipped, and that was because of the December runoff, where the areas outside the Houston area were more Democratic leaning and had a stronger union presence. They had a better GOTV effort, while voters in Houston were Christmas shopping and thought the election was over in November.
Gerrymander Math 00001 14 DEC 2021
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged packed/cracked SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICTS
= 1/4 or less CONTROL = oligarchy – with monarch tyrants.
Super worse primary math.
ALL 50 STATE LEGISLATURES and MANY LOCAL GOVTS SINCE 1776; USA CONGRESS SINCE 1789.
Subversion of USA Const 4-4 RFG cl. and 14-1 Amdt EP cl.
Voters vote — NOT census pops.
Remedy – P.R.
Simple P.R. —
TOTAL VOTERS / TOTAL MEMBERS = EQUAL VOTES TO ELECT EACH MEMBER.
Genius folks can perhaps detect details – surplus votes down, lowest loser votes up