Judge denies Gina Ortiz Jones' bid to extend vote-count in Texas Congressional race vs. Will Hurd

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN -- A Bexar County judge denied a request by Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones, who trails incumbent Republican Will Hurd by a few hundred votes in the race for the most competitive congressional district in Texas, to extend by 48 hours the deadline to make official provisional ballots.

Jones, who is vying to represent Texas' 23rd Congressional District, which spans West Texas from the east side of El Paso to the west side of San Antonio, filed the motion in an effort to close the gap between her and Hurd in one of the most closely watched races in the midterm elections.

A week after Election Day, Jones said Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen had not made public the list of provisional voters in the race, making it difficult for voters to ensure their ballots officially counted.

“We’ve had issues in Bexar County providing information that should be a matter of public record,” Jones said in a news conference. “This includes the list of folks that voted via provisional ballot.”

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/11/13/gina-ortiz-jones-trailing-will-hurd-asks-48-hour-extension-vote-counting-texas-competitive-congressional-district

[joshdawg]

1. Ok, what would be the harm

in extending the deadline by a mere two days?

[barbtries]

2. the democrat might win.

fucking republicans with their hands on the scale.

[joshdawg]

5. And that begs the question,

what is the political stance of this judge?
Appears to be republican, but that's just a guess.

[barbtries]

6. i think it's a safe guess

considering that the candidate's complaint states that she's not being given access to the provisional ballots.
i wonder if this is the same area where a candidate's aide was thrown in jail when he told the police he was a democrat.

[TexasTowelie]

8. The judge is a Republican.

https://ballotpedia.org/Stephani_Walsh

[joshdawg]

11. Thank you.

Just confirms my suspicions.

[DUgosh]

3. The harm might include

Beto votes

[TexasTowelie]

4. Considering that Beto was over 200,000 votes behind,

I don't believe that there are enough ballots in question that it would have any impact on that race.

[bluecollar2]

7. Republican Judge..

I'm guessing...

But Judges are elected. I remember that most judges ran unopposed when I lived in Texas.

[Amimnoch]

9. Not this one.

Every single judge on my ballot in the 7th had a Democratic Party candidate. Was great to see for a change. Even better, the Democratic Party candidates from my ballot pretty much cleaned house! One of the ousted tRumpublicon justice was so bitter when he returned to work he released nearly all juvenile defendants with a salty statement “Democrats would let them all go free anyway.”

[bluecollar2]

10. Great news

Of course, I was in Tarrant County...I remember when a lot of our judges switched parties on 94...

[LeftInTX]

12. She was voted out last week...so was every R judge on the ballot