TX voting information
Mood: excited
Posted on 2008-02-22 13:25:00
Tags: politics
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So, early voting is going on already for the Texas primaries. Here's a PDF voting guide from the League of Women Voters of Texas, a nonpartisan group. These are endorsements from the Austin Chronicle and from the Stonewall Democrats. (if someone has a concise link to Austin American-Statesman endorsements, I'd be much obliged) Here are the early voting locations in Travis County - we're gonna vote at Highland Mall tonight.

Now, the tricky part is that Texas has both a primary (which determines 126 delegates) and a caucus (which determines 67 delegates). Yes, this is crazy. There's more information here but the gist of it is, there will be a caucus at your polling location (find your polling location here) at 7:15 on March 4. It's not like the Iowa caucuses as I understand - you just have to show up and vote again. Here's some more information about the caucus. So be sure to show up and then you get to vote twice! (if someone could explain to me why we have this crazy system I'd be happy to learn)

1 comment

Comment from tehfanboi:
2008-02-22T17:37:47+00:00
The rules were originally put in place to insure that the Democratic hierarchy would have more say. Since most voters just show up, but only diehard dems would be willing to come back to vote again you can prevent Republican tanking viable candidates in the general primary.

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