Post by tex on Jan 27, 2006 17:43:03 GMT -5
Jan. 27 2008, AUSTIN - Two Republicans who were knocked off the March primary ballot because of problems with voter signatures they collected will be allowed to resume their campaigns, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
The all-Republican court said Judges Charles Holcomb and Robert Francis should be allowed to fix the problems in their campaigns for the Court of Criminal Appeals, a nine-judge body with members elected statewide.
State election law requires statewide judicial candidates to collect 50 signatures from each of the state's 14 judicial appeals districts.
The state party disqualified Holcomb because his petition was five signatures short, and a judge booted Francis because he did not list the place on the court for which he was running on 11 of the more than 200 pages of petitions submitted.
The problems were discovered by another GOP challenger, Rep. Terry Keel of Austin.
The all-Republican court said Judges Charles Holcomb and Robert Francis should be allowed to fix the problems in their campaigns for the Court of Criminal Appeals, a nine-judge body with members elected statewide.
State election law requires statewide judicial candidates to collect 50 signatures from each of the state's 14 judicial appeals districts.
The state party disqualified Holcomb because his petition was five signatures short, and a judge booted Francis because he did not list the place on the court for which he was running on 11 of the more than 200 pages of petitions submitted.
The problems were discovered by another GOP challenger, Rep. Terry Keel of Austin.