Texas: legislative hearing on election contest
The San Antonio Express-News reports: Illegal votes helped a newly elected Democratic lawmaker narrowly beat longtime Republican Rep. Talmadge Heflin, the defeated candidate's lawyer said Thursday.
Rep. Hubert Vo of Houston won the November election by 33 votes.
But Heflin's attorney, Andy Taylor, said voters either cast ballots twice, cast a ballot in the wrong voting precinct or weren't residents of the district. Some weren't U.S. citizens and a couple of ballots submitted by mail were accepted or rejected for invalid reasons, he said. ...
Some 253 voters cast ballots illegally, Taylor said, and he got sworn statements from 129 of them. Of those, 86 said they voted for Vo and 43 for Heflin, which gave Vo a net advantage of 43 illegal votes, Taylor said.
Since Vo won the election by 33 votes, Heflin actually led by 10 votes, Taylor said. -- MySA.com: Metro | State