21 Texan Counties w/o Republicans (3 w/o Democrats)

[IdaBriggs]

I'm kind of swamped at the moment, but this comes from a reasonable source, and the data is easily verified. Does this worry anyone else??? I guess President McCain can address it some time in the future!!!

(what follows is from an e-mail I received from US Count Votes)

What happened in Texas yesterday?

Did 21 counties in TX have NO Republican voters?
Did 3 counties in TX have NO Democratic voters?

Check out the CNN and Texas Secretary of State web sites.

Really? Or is something wrong with the trade secret software that
counts the invisible e-ballots in TX?

(what follows is the forward from the original e-mail)

TEXAS SIZE -VOTE-FRAUD
24 AMAZING (1 Party) Counties !!!


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
richardhayesphillips(AT)yahoo.com
March 5, 2008


Didn't anybody notice this?


It is now 24 hours after the polls closed in Texas.

In 21 counties, with 100% of precincts reporting,
Nobody voted in the Republican presidential primary.

In 3 counties, with 100% of precincts reporting,
Nobody voted in the Democratic presidential primary.

In the 21 counties with NO Republican voters, there were
87,919 registered voters, and
36,239 ballots cast,
all of them Democratic.

In the 3 counties with NO Democratic Voters, there were

5,212 registered voters, and
1,865 ballots cast,
all of them Republican.

In Maverick County,
ALL 9,661 ballots cast were Democratic.

In Hansford County,
ALL 1,235 ballots cast were Republican.

ONE-PARTY TEXAS COUNTIES, PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, 2008

County Registered Republican Democratic
Voters Votes Votes
Armstrong 1404 369 0
Borden 432 0 139
Brooks 6385 0 3185
Cottle 1230 0 471
Crockett 2654 0 1166
Culberson 1959 0 526
Dickens 1410 0 612
Duval 9331 0 5053
Foard 1043 0 432
Hall 2110 0 813
Hansford 3101 1235 0
Hardeman 2969 0 1086
Hudspeth 1557 0 476
Kent 665 0 250
La Salle 4071 0 1392
Loving 116 0 22
Maverick 26224 0 9661
Reeves 6337 0 2228
Roberts 707 261 0
Stonewall 1087 0 483
Throckmorton 1175 0 513
Upton 2139 0 823
Zapata 7148 0 3190
Zavala 7877 0 3718


But don't take my word for it. See for yourself.


http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race0.htm

http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_race0.htm

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TX


Election officials in the State of Texas have some explaining to do.



Richard Hayes Phillips is the author
of the definitive book on the 2004 presidential election in Ohio
– "Witness to a Crime:
A Citizens' Audit of an American Election."
For more information:
richardhayesphillips(AT)yahoo.com

[Zynx]

1. I found that to be more than a little odd myself.

[undeterred]

2. Oh geez.

Its happening again. I wonder how often its less obvious.

[Vincardog]

3. In my precinct we voted on paper ballots. If anyone wants to contest the outcome they can pay for

a recount. We only had 4 out of the 1300 primary votes counted on the handicapped BBV machine.

[NoPasaran]

4. In Texas, if a party does not have a county chair to organize the primary

It does not take place.

There's your explanation, like it or not.

[Gman]

6. You nailed it. That's exactly what's going on with some of these

But others like Reeves has a very active Democratic Party county chair. I don't know, but I would expect a GOP chair too.

[Gman]

5. Some are not very odd at all

Maverick County is Eagle Pass. Ever been there? There is no affluent part of town and it's very strongly Democrat. It's heavily hispanic and very poor. I'm not surprised there were no GOP votes. Maybe a bit unusual for a town of (IIRC) around 50,000 population, but there very well could be 50,000 pissed off people. If you've ever been to Eagle Pass you'd understand why.

Brooks County is King Ranch territory. Falfurias and Premont are the biggest towns. Another highly hispanic area. A bit unlikely for no GOP votes, considering all the ranch country. But still not out of the question.

Duval County... ever heard of the Duke of Duval, Archer Parr that delivered the mysterious box 13 for Lyndon Johnson? Not unlikely at all for no GOP votes there. Very, VERY poor county. Highly hispanic.

Zavala County... if you've seen Duval County, you've seen Zavala County. Right next door to Maverick County. La Pryor is the biggest town there. Another one that doesn't surprise me to see no GOP votes.

Zapata County... They're so crooked there they probably threw out the GOP vote. Look for the GOP ballots floating down the Rio Grande. They should be halfway to Rio Grande City by now.

OTOH, there are a lot of West Texas, 23rd Congressional district counties in that list that I know often go Republican in the general election such as Crocket, Reeves, Hudspeth, Stonewall & Throckmorton.

Most of the rest I'm not familiar with.

[aquart]

8. What do you know about Brewster?

It was one of the very few non-city counties that went for Obama. Yet they claim a 43% Hispanic population.

[Gman]

9. Brewster is the biggest county in Texas

bigger than several states. It's generally red. With "only" 43% Hispanic, I'm not surprised to see it go Obama. Frankly I think of Brewster County as more an anglo county than Hispanice. Although it's generally desert, there are quite a few small settlements and some resort-type places.

As far as "non-city", Alpine in Brewster has a population of close to 6,000.

[aquart]

10. I'm in NYC. 6,000 looks like a 7/11 to me. Or a high school.

Seriously, though, the voting map of Texas at CNN is fascinating. Obama votes clustered in the big cities and almost nowhere else...and then Brewster. So I wondered.

Thanks for answering me.

[Gman]

11. Reminds me of when I was in NYC for the 1992 DNC

I remember stopping at some side street news stand. The boy in there, maybe 12 or 13 years old thought we talked funny with our Texas accents. We told him we were from Texas and he was just fascinated. At the time, there was a lot of very heavy flooding going on towards Houston. It was record breaking flooding at the time primarily in rural areas. Lots of evacuations, cattle stranded, etc. Obviously being very unfamiliar with the geography of Texas the kid asked me about the flooding and what was going on. He asked, "Did the sewers overflow?" I experienced a rare moment of being speechless. It dawned on me that this kid likely has never been beyond the concrete jungle of lower Manhatten. He most likely could not imagine the open countryside anywhere, much less in Texas. I was amazed.

Not that you're like that, but some things about Texas to people are hard to imagine if you've never been here.

[aquart]

12. Of course I'm like that. Or I was a 13.

And when I was 19, I got stranded on Boston Common because it never once occurred to me that the transit system of a city would stop running for the night. A surly friend had to drive in from Worcester to pick me up.

Just as, while traveling, my mom met people who believed that New Yorkers never see a tree.

I know flat Kansas was a shock to my system. Just as were palm trees, eucalyptus, and birds of paradise growing casually in San Diego gardens.

That's one of the reasons I've always been in favor of a national service system which would require inductees to serve at least five hundred miles from home.

[aquart]

7. Didn't surprise me at all. Did you see how small those places are?

Although my favorite county is Loving which went to Obama, 7 votes to Hillary's 5.