Texas districts revisited
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Just two weeks before America&#39;s voters are expected to leave Republicans in control of the US House of Representatives, the Supreme Court yesterday revived a
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The unusual House runoff election in TexasÃ¢ÂÂ 23rd District Ã¢ÂÂ between seven-term Republican Rep. Henry Bonilla and Democrat Ciro D. Rodriguez, a former House member from a neighboring district Ã¢ÂÂ now has a date: The contest will be held on Dec. 12.
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An overhaul in how states and localities record votes and administer elections since the Florida recount battle six years ago has created conditions that could trigger a repeat -- this time on a national scale -- of last week's Election Day debacle in the Maryland suburbs, election experts said.
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AUSTIN A review finds almost half of the Texas children who left the state&#39;s health insurance program during budget cuts -- found coverage elsewhere.
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State lawmakers who reconfigured congressional maps to benefit one party over another have drawn themselves into a corner in some House districts.
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The Supreme Court kept alive a Democratic constitutional challenge to a Republican redistricting plan in Texas yesterday, ordering a three-judge district court to re-examine its decision in January upholding the plan.
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Whether it's flying to small towns to help Republicans raise money or engineering a redistricting plan giving his party control of the Texas congressional delegation, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay delivers for his members. Now the members have delivered for him.
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Texas Rep. Henry Bonilla has helped President Bush appeal to Hispanic voters around the nation, but back home, the party helped Bonilla's re-election chances by removing thousands of Hispanics from his district.
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Having heard the blather or ranting about Red vs. Blue states for some time, I decided that I could check the curious general claim that "Red states are beneficiaries of tax revenue".  Having obtained the data here about year-by-year comparisons of the states, I obtained some results for 2004.  My intent is to identify trends without much partisan bias (BTW, I'm a Nader voter) in an American viewpoint that's not so much grey, but purple.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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State District Judge John Dietz declared Texas&#39; public school funding system unconstitutional last Wednesday. Dietz said the $30 billion funneled into public schools each year by the state is inadequate to foot the educational bill.
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AUSTIN -- A review found almost half of the Texas youth who left the state&#39;s Children&#39;s Health Insurance Program when eligibility requirements were altered found coverage elsewhere.
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While Gov. Rick Perry on Friday questioned whether a state district judge&#39;s ruling on public school finance would be upheld by the Texas Supreme Court, US Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
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By Houston Chronicle  Feb. 21--The Texas Water Development Board, the body charged with meeting the state's water needs through 2060, approved its 2007 State Water Plan late last year.
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Districts in big cities of the Midwest and Northeast undergo the most change.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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The US Supreme Court ordered on Monday further consideration of a challenge by Democrats and minority groups to a controversial Republican-backed congressional redistricting plan in Texas.