Three federal judges in San Antonio are going back, literally, to the drawing board for new political maps for Texas, and to decide when to have primary elections. The same things, in other words, they were trying to work out in November.
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State Government
The Brief: Jan. 24, 2012
Texans again face the possibility of having to vote two separate times this spring in the state’s primary elections.
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State Government
Judges Make a Rush Request for Redistricting Maps
Federal redistricting judges in San Antonio want to see if they can get agreement on political maps in time for an April 3 primary and said they are “giving serious consideration” to split primaries if no agreement can be reached quickly.
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State Government
Updated: Courts Moving Too Slow for April Primary Elections
Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed judge-drawn redistricting maps for Texas, a panel of federal judges set a Feb. 1 conference on what comes next — timing that could endanger the April 3 primaries.
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Politics
Supreme Court Nixes Judge-Drawn Redistricting Maps
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out court-drawn Texas redistricting maps on Friday morning, saying a panel of federal judges should have used the Legislature’s maps as their starting point.
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State Government
Uncertainty Over Maps Dampens Fundraising
With Texas’ redistricting maps still the subject of court battles, the date of the primary elections remains uncertain. And that is causing a fundraising hurdle for a number of candidates.
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State Government
The Supremes Try to Untangle Texas Redistricting
The Supreme Court examines a simple question without an easy answer: Delay the Texas elections, or use maps that haven’t been vetted?
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State Government
Primaries: The Maps Are Just the Start of It
Once they have maps, election administrators say they need 60 to 80 days to put an election together, and the April 3 primaries won’t be possible, they say, if they don’t have maps by the end of the month. That’s just a couple of weeks.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Intelligence: Those Elusive Elections
For this week’s edition of Inside Intelligence, we asked about election delays, redistricting maps, who is hurt and helped by delays, and whether Texas still ought to be covered by the Voting Rights Act.
