Comments on: Texas Corrects Clerical Error in Presidential Returns

By: Tom McLaughlin

Tom McLaughlin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:14:12 +0000

Based upon posting elsewhere on the site, neither one was qualified to run in the first place. :-)

Dave Leip — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:27:38 +0000

Note that the “corrected” figures are still incorrect. The TX SoS only included the Early Voting figures in the correction. The Travis County Cumulative Report is here:
http://www.co.travis.tx.us/county_clerk/election/20081104/files/cume1.pdf

The total vote is the column all the way on the right: Nader gets 790, Moore 15, McKinney, 253, Hill 7, Baldwin 667, and Allen 11

I’ve contacted the SoS and pointed this out. The Atlas page reflects the correct numbers.

richard — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:05:30 +0000

Also, if Obama and McCain had been off the ballot, they would also have missed the late August deadline to file for write-in status.

Steven R Linnabary — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:19:21 +0000

Actually, if the Texas Secretary of State had corrected the Presidential returns, the votes for McCain and Obama would not have been counted.

We should remember that McCain and Obama were on the ballot ILLEGALLY.

Only Bob Barr was legally on the ballot.

PEACE

PTK — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:45:22 +0000

Now that makes more sense. I was wondering how Hill could have gotten 876 votes.

Oops, all these folks had 26 state federal electors — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:20:35 +0000

Remember the Electoral College!

[as the Nader 2004 goofed on this item

and had to be rescued (in California) by

Citizens For A Better Veterans Home[s]!]