'How Sad It Is!' Odd Docs in the Houston Election Contest

[gmoses]

How Sad it Is!

Why Documentary Irregularities Matter
in the Houston Election Challenge

By Greg Moses
Texas Civil Rights Review

It's not the first time I've occupied a room filled with state documents in Texas, but it is the first time that I've been treated to full-time surveillance while I thumb through everything, and actually I'm kind of happy about this. The chaperones have been altogether polite and quiet. And the surveillance itself is the best sign the state could send me that I'm probably taking notes on the right documents Tuesday.

The most significant section of this ten-foot row of notebooks set up in front of me is a group of original depositions taken from Houston-area residents who were accused of stray voting in the November election when they cast ballots in the district that elected Vietnamese immigrant Hubert Vo to the state house.

Page after page of these depositions tell mundane stories of voters who once moved from Houston to Sugar Land but who didn't keep up with their paperwork, went back to Houston to vote, and then two months later got their doors knocked on by people with pens, carrying threatening documents that said in dandy legal language, you better answer these questions or we'll throw you in jail: Where do you really live and who did you vote for?

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[sonias]

1. They do indeed matter Gmoses

I guess it would be up to Vo's attorney Larry Veselka and Vo, to make a legal issue about the depositions that appear to be written in the same pen or ink. They may not want to stir the pot since they ended up winning the contest. I sure wish I was one of the those voters. Maybe MP or someone could ask their local DA to look into the matter.

Even Harnett says he thinks it should be looked into.
"We really need a brighter light to look at it," said Hartnett on the day of the hearing.

I agree with you Greg, it is so sad that the real crimes here of voter intimidation and threats, and possible evidence tampering are being ignored completely by the MSM.

thanks for the story.

Sonia