REPUBLICAN TX SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO CHALLENGE PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS!

[BradBlog]

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IN TX CONSIDERING CHALLENGE TO STATE PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS!
Inexplicable Tallies from Electronic Voting Machines in Tarrant County, Elsewhere in State Require Full Recount and/or Contest, According to Campaign Manager
'Serious mistakes were made,' Understates Candidate, Former Texas Justice Steve Smith

A Conservative Republican former Texas Supreme Court Justice, who ran against a Republican opponent backed by Gov. Rick Perry, is considering a challenge to the tremendously flawed Primary Elections held in the state two weeks ago on new Electronic Voting Machines.

The campaign for Steve Smith announced they have filed a "Public Information Act request with the Tarrant County Elections Administrator seeking to review public documents relating to the Republican Party primary election in Tarrant County" on March 7th.

Amongst the many troubling concerns pointed out to The BRAD BLOG by Smith's campaign manager, Smith "outperformed the statewide results by 13%," in his home county of Tarrant in 2004, "but this year, according to the results, he underperformed the statewide results by 23%."

There's much more in our complete report, but we thought we'd point out this one right here as well:

Winkler County, which went for Smith by margins of 260-92 (74%) and 468-249 (65%) in the 2002 and 2004 elections, went against Smith by an unbelievable 0-273 (100%) margin.

COMPLETE STORY:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002592.htm

[aquart]

1. Gimme precedents, boys. Gimme precedents.

[jayfish]

18. Your Right... BUT.

Why in the f does it take the complaint of a Republican before anyone takes this issue seriously? When it was brought up by Dems the answer was always ZZZZZZzzz ZZZZZzzz zzZZZZzz. Must be that librul media again.

Jay

[aquart]

20. Because we have been totally marginalized.

Everything WE say is "partisan." Everything THEY say is just and fair. If WE complain, it's "politics." If THEY complain, something is really wrong.

And we keep buying it.

[UpInArms]

2. those are some unbelievable numbers

Winkler County, which went for Smith by margins of 260-92 (74%) and 468-249 (65%) in the 2002 and 2004 elections, went against Smith by an unbelievable 0-273 (100%) margin.

[yourout]

3. Wouldn't it be a kick if it was the Pukes that helped get rid of the damn.

machines. I guess I don't care how it gets done.........as long as it gets done.

[Joe for Clark]

4. It really is NOTabout parties anymore

You bend the wings of an eagle back too much, they touch at some point.

We are there.

Liberals and conservatives, we think the same now.

Listen to the conservative pundits - they sound like us, for good reason.

I don't have a problem with a lot of republicans - I have problems with some because they do NOT think. They are thinking now, though.

The fall will be kind to us - very kind.

Joe

[RazzleDazzle]

10. It never was about parties

Or as I have said in the past (and we now see coming true): someday even Repubicans might want to vote one of their own out of office.

[Joe for Clark]

12. It never was - you are so right.

You are a reason to think highly of the USA again, really you are -

Thank you,


Joe

[Johnyawl]

5. They should be fighting this...

...any repug who disagrees with the mainstream corporatists that are running their party doesn't have a chance in hell (anymore than we do) if the machines are crooked. The real conservatives; the fundy x-tians; all are gonna wake up some day and realize they've been lied to and misled for decades, that the people running things have only the oligarchy's interest at heart and they couldn't care less about the wedge issues they've been peddling for years.

[Demit]

6. suggestion: Stop posting your own stories in all caps. Stop shouting.

Blow your own horn if you must, but please stop shouting while you do it.

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

8. At least he didn't put "DEVELOPING..." this time, like...

...the lame Drudge wanna-be that he has appeared to be on many other occasions.

I admit that I no longer put any credence in anything posted on bradblog and I stopped going to his site months ago. I found it as scurrilous as Drudge.

[New Earth]

17. BradBlog has done nothing but good

for the Election Reform 'movement'. Name one story he's posted that was not true that would lead to you to put no 'credence' into his work.
All reporters use 'developing' so people have a heads' up of what's to come. John Conyers himself has more than once referred to BradBlog with respect. If HE can, who can't?

[goforit]

14. Oh, come on...we all have our own self expression! Trumpets are great!

We all crave Paul Revere.

[New Earth]

16. it's just copied and pasted from his site

and it's the title and one sentence. sheesh.

[bleever]

7. I'm guessing that Repub panic fuels the need to jimmy the primaries too.

And that may well be the undoing of this grift.


Thanks, as always, Brad.

:thumbsup:

[RazzleDazzle]

11. Uh, the primaries are almost as important as the general

you control who runs in the primary. Who wins can often be a natural outcome from who runs.

[bleever]

21. That was what I was trying to say: the national party apparatus

(i.e., Rove) want to maximize their chances of winning all possible seats by making sure that their choice gets through the primary, regardless of what the primary voters might think.

[Patsy Stone]

9. Yes

"Smith's home county is Tarrant where in 2004, according to Rogers, Smith 'outperformed the statewide results by 13%, but this year, according to the results, he underperformed the statewide results by 23%.'"

This does seem a bit strange indeed -- enough for a Repub to notice, even. :crazy: K&R

[supernova]

13. w00t, w00t!

Yeah, baby! Bring it on. I want to see the Repubs rejecting their own get caught in their on web of shit.

[ninkasi]

15. What delicious irony!

[WatchWhatISay]

19. This really might be sore loserism

This guy ran against a terrific Democratic candidate here in a very strongly Republican (about 75-80%) area in 2004 and almost lost, which is amazing. I did some minor volunteer work in her campaign which included photocopying checks, many of which were from big corporate firms that are usually Republican-aligned.

Around here she should have never stood a chance, yet she almost won. A lot of Republicans think he's nuts. My guess is they finally found a better candidate, who beat this loser.