Elections News

Voter registration delayed

ODESSA AMERICAN

Redistricting litigation has delayed the mailing of new voter registration certificates and as a result election administrators are unable to finalize electoral precincts. Voter registration cards that expired Dec. 31, 2011, are still valid however,...... Full story

Sara Ward, a precinct captain for Ron Paul, had her photo taken by Rick Stodieck, left, a Paul delegate elected at his caucus in Richfield earlier in the evening, while their candidate addresses the crowd Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012.

[AP] Paul looks for delegates, respect in caucus states

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Ron Paul may not win the Republican nomination for president — he has yet to win a single state — but his strategy of trying to amass delegates in caucus states could land him a prominent role at the party's national...... Full story

Fundraiser to bring President Reagan’s son

BY NATHANIEL MILLER

Ector County, already Republican-dominated, is about to get a darker shade of red Saturday. Michael Reagan, son of 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan, is scheduled to speak 7 p.m. Saturday at the MCM Grandé Hotel Fun Dome at the Ector County...... Full story

[MM] Candidate arrested with $1M in car trunk

BY JARED JANES AND JARED TAYLOR

VICTORIA A former state trooper who was seeking election to the Precinct 1 constable’s seat was arrested Monday on money laundering charges after law enforcement officers found more than $1 million packed inside suitcases stored in his...... Full story

Waiting for voter card?

ODESSA AMERICAN

Still waiting for your voter registration card? The Ector County Elections Office said it's waiting for the OK from the Texas Secretary of State to issue them.The state of Texas and minority groups are in a fight in federal court over the fairness...... Full story

[AP] Texas primary date in doubt after deal talks stall

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN ANTONIO Texas is all but certain to have an even later say in choosing the Republican presidential nominee after what at first looked like a breakthrough deal in a bitter dispute over redistricting maps ended with wide rejection of the...... Full story

[AP] Judge: Keep negotiating redistricting deal

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN ANTONIO A federal judge ordered all sides in the Texas redistricting lawsuit to keep talking Monday, just hours after the attorney general announced a compromise plan that prompted immediate pushback from several minority groups involved in the...... Full story

[AP] Closing arguments set in Texas redistricting trial

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON A fight over the redrawing of Texas’ political maps that's shuttled from Washington to San Antonio returns to Washington on Tuesday for closing arguments in a trial to determine whether the maps drawn by the GOP-dominated Texas...... Full story

Campaign war chests filling up

BY NATHANIEL MILLER

The future date of the Texas primaries may still be unknown, but one thing is certain: Joe Commander has raised more money for his election campaign than every other local candidate.Combined.Vying for the Republican nomination against incumbent...... Full story

[AP] Judges: April 3 primary in Texas still possible

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN ANTONIO There's only one week left to salvage an April 3 primary in Texas. A San Antonio federal court on Friday ordered the state and minority groups to compromise on redrawn political districts by Feb. 6. The three-judge panel said that if...... Full story

[AP] Testimony concludes in Texas redistricting trial

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Testimony wrapped up on Thursday in a trial determining whether new political district lines drawn by the Texas Legislature violated the federal Voting Rights Act. Attention will now quickly shift to San Antonio, where another federal...... Full story

[AP] Court: All parties must agree for an April 3 vote

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN A three-judge panel says that the only way to keep the Texas primaries on April 3 is for all sides to agree on temporary political maps within two weeks. The federal court was responding to motions filed by the Texas attorney general and...... Full story

Republican presidential candidates, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, take the stage before the start of the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012.

[AP] Gov. Perry withdraws; GOP debate discusses infidelity, finances

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. The race for the Republican presidential nomination took a turn toward the South Carolina surreal Thursday as Rick Perry dropped out, Newt Gingrich faced stunning allegations from an ex-wife and Mitt Romney struggled to...... Full story

Republican presidential candidates former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich shake hands before the start of the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

[AP] A look at key moments from the SC GOP debate

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Some notable moments from Thursday's debate, the last such forum before the South Carolina Republican presidential primary:___Newt Gingrich and 'open marriage' question:The first question of the evening cited the allegation by...... Full story

[AP] FACT CHECK: History flubs in Republican debat

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney perpetuated one unsubstantiated claim, about his record at Bain Capital, and more or less corrected himself on another, about President Barack Obama's health care law, in the latest Republican presidential...... Full story