Mccain, Obama Miss Texas Filing Deadling; Barr Only Presidential Candidate on Texas Ballot

ya, we wouldn't have to worry about that big red state.

I live in Texas, just north of Dallas, and this just made me roll with laughter. I know Texas won't go blue, not yet despite the growing number of Texas democrat stickers I'm seeing on cars, so I have to wonder how the election totals would look were this allowed to stand.

KF's right though, they'll offer extensions because it just wouldn't do for the repubs to not vote for the (R) on the ballot. I mean seriously, we're talking about the state that actually re-drew the district lines to keep democrats out of office.

I swear, when Obama takes the White House you'll see a rash of "heat stroke" victims down here from people that just can't take the change.

The election code Barr's relying on only applies to those who don't automatically qualify. Texas has an automatic qualification cause - which both major parties meet. Ergo the premise of the article (Barr's accusation) is faulty. Texas need not revise, adjust, or extend anything. Obama and McCain are fine just as they are, under current rules.

This came up in Andrew's seed last week. Repasted from that article:

The August 26 deadline is for independent and third party candidates. -- Texas Election Code - Section 192.031

Since the D's and the R's nominate by convention, and those parties have each had "a nominee for a statewide office who received a number of votes equal to at least five percent of the total number of votes received by all candidates for that office," Texas Election Code Section 181.005 applies.

Section 181.005 states:

A political party is entitled to have the names of its
nominees placed on the ballot, without qualifying under Subsection
(a), in each subsequent general election following a general
election in which the party had a nominee for a statewide office who
received a number of votes equal to at least five percent of the
total number of votes received by all candidates for that office.

Both the Republicans and Democrats had candidates for statewide office in 2006 who garnered more than 5% of the vote for that office (several, actually). Therefore, both parties automatically qualify and don't have to separately qualify by submitting names arrived at by convention by any particular date.

Sorry, Bob.