Update from Dan Neil who narrowly lost to Donna Howard (D-TX) in HD 48, which was my district prior to moving last year:
Today was the last day of our hearing before the special master in our election contest in House District 48. Currently, we are down by 3 votes with a margin of error of 4 illegal voters. We also have voters who have lived outside the district for 2 years or more who voted in this election and voted for Donna Howard, while their voter registration was on suspense.
At this point, it is clear that we do not know who the winner of this election is. The only possible remedy is a new election.
The next step in the process is that Master Hartnett will report his findings to the committee by Friday. We will see what the Master reports and we will make a determination about our next step at that time. We intend to fight for this seat until the end.
Illegal voters? Voting for a Democrat? Say it isn’t true, Dan…
If my wife and I hadn’t of moved 10 months prior to the election, that would have been 2 more votes for Dan. Plus, the two hippies we sold our house to wouldn’t have been able to cast their votes for, I assume, Howard. Plus, I would have worked hard for the Neil campaign, which I know would have been good enough for more than the handful of votes he might fall short.
With that said, I am not hopeful that he will win this fight, and we’ll just have to work a bit harder to throw Howard out at the next election.
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