On January 31, Texas held a special election to fill the vacancy in the Ninth State Senate District. The results: Democratic 57.21%; Republican 42.79%.
When this district had voted in its last regular election, in November 2022, the vote had been: Republican 60.05%; Democratic 39.95%. The district is centered on Fort Worth.
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Gary, election administration in Texas and in Tarrant County are run by Republican election officials.
@RW,
That is not true.
@Jim Riley… How is that not true? Other than a few Democratic judges (in the minority), everybody in the county and state government is a Republican.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrant_County,_Texas#County_officials
https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/elected.shtml
Why the woke pedo Wikipedia link?
@Q… Sorry but firstly, what makes an intangible thing like a website “pedo”? And secondly, you understand “pedo” (actually “paedo”) is an ancient Greek word that means “pre-pubescent”, right? So how is a website pre-pubescent?
It’s kind of sad that nat cons think spewing the word “pedo” around somehow automatically discredits something. All you’re doing is removing the definition from its proper foundation, which will ultimately make the word mean nothing.
Aiden is known troll Robert K Stock.
@Stop trolling… Whatever you say bud.
@Aiden,
Tarrant County elections are administered by a county elections administrator, who is appointed. The panel that appoints the administrator includes the county party chairs of the Democrats and Republicans.
The election judges and clerks at polling places are appointed by both major parties.
Okay, technically correct: https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._election_code_section_31.032
However, the commission that appoints would be 4 Republicans and a lone (irrelevant) Democrat.
Thus the Tarrant County Commission is made up of:
the county judge, as chair – Tim O’Hare (Republican);
the county clerk, as vice chair – Mary Louise Nicholson (Republican);
the county tax assessor-collector, as secretary – Rick Barnes (Republican);
the county chair of each political party that made nominations by primary election for the last general election for state and county officers preceding the date of the meeting at which the appointment is made (1 Republican and 1 Democrat).
Go away “Aiden” (Stock)
@Stop trolling… Firstly, not going anywhere. Secondly, not Stock. And thirdly, not sure how providing factual information is “trolling” but you contributing nothing relevant is not…. Oh right, you’re an incompetent dumbass that doesn’t understand what words mean.
@Aiden,
The default arrangement in Texas is the county clerk administers elections; and the tax assessor-collector maintains voter registrations (this is a vestige of when Texas had a poll tax). These are largely clerical offices, with election duties secondary. In smaller counties, the county clerk might handle elections herself. At some point she might hire a deputy to handle elections. It is probably more efficient to have one agency handle both registration and conduct of elections, so perhaps the deputy is appointed as county election administrator.
The county judge is (or was) an actual judicial officer. The commmissioners court conducts the official canvass. The county chairs of the political parties conduct their primary elections, except early voting.
An election administrator is an appointed bureaucrat (no connotation intended). They are legally prohibited from participating in partisan political activities. There was at least one county election administrator who never voted – it is a legal requirement that they be registered to vote. There is no county residence requirement.
A county ***election*** commission does not typically meet. Their only formal duty is to appoint the election administrator, or rarely fire them.
A county clerk is a partisan office. If the county clerk is a Republican and administers elections, it would be technically correct to say that Republicans administer the election in that county. It would also be technically correct to say that Republicans record vital statistics in that county. Similarly, the tax assessor/collector is a partisan office. A Democrat might be in charge of keeping the voting rolls as well as registering vehicles.
Administering an election is essentially a clerical task.
Stock aways threw a fit when he was called out on his trolling. Aiden is clearly Stock.
@Stop trolling… LOL, you really have nothing better to do then to try to get the last word, huh? You’re obviously a loser with no life. I’m no longer going to entertain your stupidity. You can keep living in your delusional paranoid world and believe I’m whoever you want to believe I am. Clearly, you’re either too stubborn, or feeble minded, to accept the truth in regards to any topic, even when facts, statistics, and data are laid out in front of you.
Let me also add, I don’t even know who the fuck Robert K Stock is. Never even heard of them outside the name being thrown around here.
@Jim Riley… Interesting. Good to know. Appreciate the information.
Alden doesn’t know that “Wikipedia” is dominated by woke pedophiles like me?
Arden James is not Robert Stock.