In news to be filed under “likely to get lost in the 2024 election year,” announced as the world teeters on the brink of catastrophe and America’s president postures over rigged debates and waffles on his duty to seal the southern border, an election in Harris County, Texas, was ordered to be redone yesterday.
The election for the 180th District Court was decided by 449 votes in favor of the Democrat, DaSean Jones, out of more than one million ballots cast in a widely panned 2022 midterm elections in Harris County that also saw the incompetent county judge, Lina Hidalgo, reelected by an eyelash. Judge David Peeples issued the order while upholding the results of 20 other contested races, all decided by highly debatable margins. While this is not the first minor election to be ordered redone, it is the one in which I believe the most insight is available for future challenges to understand, and it reminds me of a phone call I had with Jameson Ellis after his most recent challenge to Dan Crenshaw was much closer than in 2022 but fell short. I told him he would need to come up with a number exceeding the difference in margin for it to hold water, even though the election itself was probably highly manipulated.
I suspect, in the near future, a major election will be ordered redone. It should have happened with the big four at the top of the ticket in Arizona who were impacted by the maladministration in that state’s 2022 midterm, but the Maricopa cartel owns the courts, too – enough so that even the revelation of countless tens of thousands of ballots having signatures “verified” in mere seconds with the click of a mouse was brought to public light. For now, here are three takeaways from this decision that matter going forward and should be stashed away in “lessons learned”:
1) Timing Matters
Judge Jones has been seated for his term for over a year. This establishes precedent that, if standards are met, seated office holders may indeed be removed from office in the middle of a term. The most notable major race that comes to mind is the 1916 Arizona gubernatorial election, which was reversed after the new Republican governor had served a year in office. This decision in Texas justifies my belief that the best use of Abraham Hamadeh’s political capital would have been to abstain from running for Congress and challenge his Attorney General race, which was certified in favor of the corrupt Kris Mayes by 280 ballots. He is the closest of any candidate for major office since the election corruption crisis began.
2) Tally Matters
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