UPDATE: Pressley Files Election Contest

CM Greg Casar responds to Laura Pressley filing

"...specifically: “This contest is based on a) deprivation of voting rights of voters in two high population polling locations..."

Jan. 30, 2015 News Post by Michael King

The Daily Hustle: 6/18/10

More MRF madness next meeting

"...has been a strange one, with council most recently voting to scrap the proposals process that garnered three frontrunners,..."

June 18, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Who Decides … You or the Machine?

"...activist group dedicated to ridding our nation of electronic voting machines and going back to paper ballots. More on..."

Nov. 2, 2006 News Post by Lee Nichols

Election Ticker: Run, Run, Run-off Away

It's a whole new election, y'all! Don't be alarmed.

"...for office! – donned their tinfoil hats and played Spot-the-Irregularities on social media. To make this simple: Eligible residents..."

Nov. 23, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Pressley: Further Unto the Breach

Defeated Council candidate continues appeal

"...to confirm whether their claims – including of election irregularities as well as criminal conduct by public officials –..."

July 31, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Pressley Files Her Complaint

Accuses Travis County Clerk of state law violations

"...to 35% – were not accurately reflected in the voting totals. Her specific complaints concern the recount, which precisely..."

Jan. 16, 2015 News Post by Michael King

Partisan

"...Straight tickets: Voting for one of four parties – Republican, Democratic, Libertarian,..."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...are 435 U.S. Representatives and 100 U.S. Senators.)Headlines• Early voting for Austin's May 7 municipal election began this week,..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Where There's Smoke …

Across the country, perspectives on the smoking bans offer a very mixed bag

"...finance waiver within the proposed ordinance, implying unspecified financial irregularities behind the anti-smoking campaign. Ahart responded, "The passage came..."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Don't Blame Nader

"...Gore the election is still going on. The election irregularities in North Florida were nothing new. I witnessed it..."

June 2, 2004 Postmarks

The Forest for the Trees

The Austin Arts Commission has never been a model of bureaucratic efficiency, but this year it seems to have become a big cliché in action, a body so focused on procedure and minutiae and the concerns of the moment that it can't see the forest for the trees. It's compounding the problems in Austin's profoundly flawed public arts funding system and demonstrating just how poorly that process serves not only the city's artists but all its citizens.

"...on the issue, and a bizarre resolution it was: voting to amend the guideline they admitted was flawed but..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Coverage

"...fact, that's just one of a raft of apparent irregularities in the Florida voting. Still, as the Chronicle goes..."

Nov. 10, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

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