The list of WRITE IN candidates is to be established prior to election day. "In each booth there will be a printed list of candidates who have been certified for the Congressional District 22 race." Since the names are known, it is purely procedural to require this inadequate mechanism for inputing the write in name.
The Texas ballot permits nicknames. I suggest the nickname "AAA" for one of the write-in candidates'.
Voters don't have to get the spelling exactly right. "If the election officials can tell what the voter's intent was, then that vote will count," Haywood said
Electronic pregnant chads?
Houston PING
And the Houston Comical couldn't have done MORE to bury this article. It is on about the fourth page of the second supplement in today's paper.
Having seen it in a restaurant, I went to look for the article on the Comical's website. Not under any of the "politics" articles. And it is buried in the Houston/Texas news section.
See if you can spot it...
http://www.chron.com/news/houston/
Accidental Houston Chronicle memo admits to tainting the news with political agenda (Posted on 11/25/2002)A Houston odyssey: DeLay, Lanier and light rail
Posted to HoustonChronicle.com Nov. 20,2002
Next November, voters in the city and across the Metropolitan Transit Authority service area will cast a truly important vote: They will decide whether Metro should be permitted to expand our rail rail system beyond the 7-mile South Main line.
There isn't a more critical issue on the horizon. I propose a series of editorials, editorial cartoons and Sounding Board columns leading up to the rail referendum, with this specific objective: Continuing our long standing efforts to make rail a permanent part of the transit mix here.
The timing, language and approach of the paper's editorials would, of course, be the decision of the Editorial Board. But I suggest that they could be built upon and informed by a news-feature package with an equally specific focus: Telling the story of rail here by examining the long term relationship of the two key players in the local transit wars -- Rep. Tom DeLay and former Mayor Bob Lanier. For better or worse, (mostly worse, I would argue) no two have had a more significant impact on transit decisions here. Our readers deserve to know how they've operated to fund and promote an anti-rail agenda for the past two decades. This would be vital information for voters as they come to their decision on rail. It would also be highly entertaining read....
And that rail line we voted on? The one that approved rail on Westpark? Well they changed their mind and screwed the voters and decided to ram it down Richmond instead. Bait and switch? Tyranny? Corruption, whatever it is.
DeLay screwed us.
CD22 ping.
I've been fairly hopeful all through this thing. But I would pretty much call it over. Two years of Lampson ahead and then OUT the door.
I really really really wish DeLay woud just run...