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A shedding Republican candidate for the Texas Home of Representatives is difficult his defeat and asking the Legislature to void the outcomes of the election.
Republican Mike Could this week filed what’s often known as an election contest with the Texas secretary of state’s workplace, citing studies of scattered paper poll shortages at “quite a few” polling locations on Election Day. Could misplaced to incumbent Democrat Jon Rosenthal by greater than 6,000 votes in his bid to symbolize Home District 135 within the Houston space.
The secretary of state’s workplace on Tuesday delivered Could’s petition to Home Speaker Dade Phelan, who can refer the competition to a committee for investigation and appoint one other member of the Home as a “grasp” to supervise discovery and proof associated to the contested election. In the event that they aspect with Could and void the outcomes, one other election could be required to resolve the district’s consultant. The Home may also toss the competition by declaring it “frivolous.”
Election Day points as soon as once more pushed Harris County’s election officers again underneath scrutiny, together with from the state’s Republican management. Voting in Harris County was prolonged by court docket order for an additional hour after a few dozen polling locations have been delayed in opening. The county’s elections administrator Clifford Tatum has additionally acknowledged points with inadequate paper ballots at some polling locations, although he mentioned election workers was dispatched to ship further ballots.
The fumbles prompted a lawsuit by the Harris County GOP, which alleged voters have been disenfranchised by the paper shortages. The Harris County district lawyer has since launched an investigation into allegations of “irregularities.” The Texas Election Code contains prison penalties for numerous violations, together with unlawful voting, the unsolicited distribution of mail-in poll functions by native election officers and the failure to distribute election provides.
In his petition, Could argued the outcomes of the election weren’t the “true end result” as a result of election officers “prevented eligible voters from voting.” Could didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
On Friday, Rosenthal’s camp framed Could’s election contest as a part of a nationwide pattern to “deny the end result of an election once you lose.”
“This race demonstrated one of many largest proportion level variations in Harris County, it wasn’t even shut,” Rosenthal’s marketing campaign supervisor, Bailey Stober, mentioned in an announcement. “The opposition introduced himself and his positions and was rejected by voters overwhelmingly. That’s how democracy works.”
The assertion got here quickly after Harris County Legal professional Christian D. Menefee criticized the competition as an effort to “name into query the 2022 election in Harris County and lay the groundwork to pressure a redo.”
It’s unclear how Phelan will deal with the competition. His workplace declined to remark Friday. However Menefee mentioned he was hopeful that Phelan would throw out the problem.
“And I belief that he’ll guarantee a good course of earlier than neutral legislators, with out interference from the state leaders and different elected officers who’ve a historical past of creating baseless claims in opposition to Harris County elections,” Menefee mentioned.
The Home took on an analogous train in 2011 following a problem by Travis County Republican Dan Neil, who, after a recount, misplaced to state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, by 12 votes. The Home finally upheld Howard’s win. She stays within the Texas Legislature.
Up until then, the Legislature had seen 113 election contests since 1846, in response to the Texas Legislative Council, an in-house authorized and analysis arm of the Texas Legislature. The shedding get together, nonetheless, had not managed to show the end result of the election not less than within the final 30 years. Within the one case by which the Home ordered a brand new election in 1981, the winner of the preliminary contest was once more elected.
Harris County, the state’s largest, has in recent times been floor zero for partisan battles over election administration. Since shedding management of the county, Republicans have recurrently challenged new voting initiatives just like the creation of countywide voting that permits voters to solid ballots at any polling place on Election Day in addition to the county’s creation of an elections directors workplace.
The county additionally drew the ire of state Republicans who, in sweeping laws handed in 2021, banned initiatives it championed within the first main election throughout the pandemic — 24-hour voting and drive-thru voting. The county mentioned these voting strategies have been disproportionately utilized by voters of colour.
Harris County will already be the topic of a full post-election audit by the state. The secretary of state’s workplace beforehand chosen the county for evaluation as a part of a brand new audit course of put in place by the Republican laws.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Dozens of educators, including several from San Antonio, convened at the Texas Capitol on Monday to voice their opposition to school choice vouchers.
The rally, which drew participants from across the state, focused on advocating for higher teacher pay, improved working conditions and a firm stance against the proposed voucher system.
“We are aggressive in fighting for the rights for educators. Our rights for fair wages and reasonable working conditions have to be respected and forced in our districts and in our college campuses too,” said an organizer for the rally.
Protesters carried signs with messages such as “Texas can and must do better,” “we demand thriving public schools,” and “say no to vouchers.”
The school choice bill, currently making its way through the Texas Legislature, proposes to allocate up to $10,000 per family to facilitate the transfer of students to private schools.
Educators at the rally expressed concerns that such a measure could undermine public education funding and potentially worsen existing inequalities.
The protest highlighted educators’ call for legislative action to prioritize public school funding and ensure equitable educational opportunities for all students in Texas.
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The North Texas Mean Green have made some big moves in just their second season in the American Athletic Conference.
North Texas finished its conference slate with a 14-3 record, its best conference record since going 16-2 in Conference USA in 2021-22. The Mean Green enter the tournament as the No. 2 seed behind Memphis.
UNT is seeking its first NCAA Tournament appearance in four seasons, but will likely need to win the conference tournament to get a bid.
Here’s how to follow North Texas through the AAC tournament.
When: Wednesday-Sunday
Where: Dickies Arena, Fort Worth
Broadcast: ESPNU, ESPN+ (streaming only)
Game 1 — No. 13 Charlotte vs No. 12 Rice, noon; ESPN+
Game 2 — No. 9 South Florida vs No. 8 Wichita State, 11:30 a.m.; ESPNU
Game 3 — Game 1 Winner vs No. 5 Florida Atlantic, 1:30 p.m.; ESPNU
Game 4 — No. 10 Tulsa vs No. 7 Temple, 6 p.m.; ESPNU
Game 5 — No. 11 UTSA vs No. 6 East Carolina, 8 p.m.; ESPNU
Game 6 — Game 2 Winner vs No. 1 Memphis, noon; ESPN2
Game 7 — Game 3 Winner vs No. 4 Tulane, 1 p.m.; ESPN2
Game 8 — Game 4 Winner vs No. 2 North Texas, 6 p.m.; ESPNU
Game 9 — Game 5 Winner vs No. 3 UAB, 8 p.m.; ESPNU
Game 6 Winner vs Game 7 Winner, 2 p.m.; ESPN2
Game 8 Winner vs Game 9 Winner, 4 p.m.; ESPN2
2:15 p.m., ESPN
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A federal judge awarded nearly $2 million in damages after determining that an FBI agent was negligent when he shot and killed a kidnapped Texas man during a botched rescue effort.
The mother and son of Ulises Valladares, 47, were awarded the money as part of a civil lawsuit filed in Houston federal court alleging the man was helpless while he was bound and blindfolded when FBI agent Gavin Lappe shot him in January 2018 as agents entered a home where he was being held captive.
Lappe told investigators he only fired his gun when he suspected that a kidnapper had grabbed his rifle after the agent broke a window to enter the home and did not know he was shooting Valladares.
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Ernesto Valladares, brother of Ulises Valladares, is interviewed on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 across from his brother’s home, the location where he and his son were held hostage days earlier. (AP)
But U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt in Houston found that Lappe “was negligent, even grossly negligent, in his response” during the rescue attempt, and ruled that the agent was the sole cause of Valladares’ death.
Hoyt said Lappe shot at a silhouette in the window without confirming who he was shooting at and that he fired his weapon despite no direct threat to him or another agent nearby.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt found that the agent “was negligent, even grossly negligent, in his response” during the rescue attempt. (iStock)
Lappe was protected against the lawsuit through qualified immunity, which shields law enforcement from liability for wrongdoing. But the case was allowed to move forward against the federal government, which is not protected from liability.
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FBI agent Gavin Lappe was protected against the lawsuit through qualified immunity, which shields law enforcement from liability for wrongdoing. (iStock)
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Former Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo previously said Lappe’s explanation for shooting Valladares is not backed up by evidence reviewed by police investigators.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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