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Early
voting
begins
Continued from Page 1R.\4
Sunday, February 16, 1992 la iormoot a i
Battle for seat
on high court
tops judicial racesAlso scheduled is a "government
day" when temporary polling
places will be set up in downtown
Austin for state workers and a
"shopping day" when polls will be
located at grocery stores and shop-
ping centers.
"This plan (for mobile voting)
really reaches the marginal voter.
That's because it's right under their
nose. It relates voting to a daily ac-
tivity and makes it more real in
their lives," Ms. DeBeauvoir said.
Travis County's aggressive early-
voting program is the result of
strong support from the Commis-
sioners' Court, Ms. DeBeauvoir said.
"If you put the locations where
the people are, they'll take the time
to vote," Assistant Secretary of State
Tom Harrison recently told an elec-
tions advisory committee.
Mr. Harrison noted that in Bexar
County, where officials placed vot-
ing booths at shopping malls, 40
percent of the vote was cast before
election day in 1990.
Because of legislative redistrict-
ng, however, the early-voting law
has presented special challenges
for election officials in Texas'
larger counties.
Under a new state law requiring
an early-voting place in every state
House district, Harris County Clerk
Anita Rodeheaver had to double the
number of polling places.
That task was complicated by
new district boundary lines that
carved as many as eight or nine pre-
cincts out of what had been a single
precinct, she said.
Mrs. Rodeheaver said that left
Harris County officials "just wait-
ing, waiting and waiting" for maps
that showed how 672 precincts in
Harris County had been expanded
to 1,226. "You figure it out - we're
just not a little bitty county," she
said.
"But, as far as we are concerned,
we are proceeding to open voting
on Feb. 19. Someway, somehow the
good Lord is going to let us open."
Dallas County Elections Admin-
istrator Bruce Sherbet faced similar
challenges, where redistricting
caused the number of precincts to
double, from 485 to 989.I~ r'
Torrie West looks through a stack of voter
registration cards Tuesday that have beenAs a result, about 250,000 voters
were placed into new precincts, Mr.
Sherbet said.
"But we will be ready for early
voting. All systems are go for Dallas
County," Mr. Sherbet said.
Dallas County will have 22 early-
voting places. One polling place has
been added and three polling places
have been moved, under the law re-
quiring a polling place in each state
House district.Bush, Clinton early
ontinued from Page 1R.
t he state convention in June.
Mr. Clinton, who has the most or-
ganized support in the state, has
been the early favorite to win theprobably will be determined by ear-
lier primary tests in New Hamp-
shire, South Dakota, Colorado,
Maryland and Georgia.
Iowa Sen. Tom Hail I<tt
The Dallas Morning News: Rchard Mireturned for 'a variety of reasons 1
Postal Service.Mr. Sherbet said he wants to try
more innovative uses of the early-
voting law in the November gen-
eral election - such as mobile vot-
ing and retail voting.
"I would like to see us more to
some high-traffic areas in the gen-
eral election, and there's been sup-
port for that in Dallas County," he
said.
Texas' unusual early-voting law
has changed the timing and pace ofolitical campaigns, experts
"The simplest and mos'
way to put it, the day after
Hampshire primary, peol
start voting for their pres
choice in Texas," said Ed
executive director of the sta
ocratic Party.
"So a presidential ca
can't just think New Hamps
Feb. 18; they have got t
Texas on Feb. 19."Texas favorit
ning in the general election.
Mr. Duke is expected to switch to
a third-party presidential bid afterAs a result, it is expecte
very difficult for Mr. Duke
Buchanan to win any of thet=:4
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Continued from Page IR.
publican contest to oppose Mr.
Mauzy in the fall are expected to
provide the most fireworks.
Mr. Banner said he hopes to
raise up to $500,000 for his Demo-
cratic primary race against Mr.
Hightower. He calls Mr. Hightower
a professional politician who is
beholden to the special interest
groups that have contributed heav-
ily to his campaign.
"I disagree with the services he
is rendering," Mr. Banner said.
"The court is essentially engaged in
playing politics and that should be
left to the Legislature and the gov-
ernor."
Mr. Hightower served in the
Texas Senate and the U.S. House be-
fore his election to the Texas Su-
preme Court.
He dismissed Mr. Banner's
claims that he has favored his con-
tributors and said he is limiting his
campaign contributions to $5,000
per person, per election.
Mr. Banner also has attempted to
put Mr. Hightower on the defensive
by citing claims by the Wise County
Appraisal District accusing him of
misconduct for participating in a
ruling that benefited a company for
which his daughter lobbied.
The appraisal district has asked
for a new hearing on the case, con-
tending that Justice Hightower
should have recused himself. That
motion is pending before the court.
In its 5-4 ruling, the Supreme
Court reversed the judgments of
ichaelPruitt two lower courts and said that the
by the county could not assess taxes on un-
derground limestone deposits un-
less they are being quarried.
say. Justice Hightower wrote the ma-
t telling jority opinion.
the New His daughter, Amy Hightower
ple can Brees of Austin, was a lobbyist for a
;idential trade association that filed a brief
Martin, in the case opposing the tax. She
ate Dem- also was lobbying for a Dallas-based
rock crusher that had a similar tax
smpaign appeal suit pending in Wise County,
shire on according to published reports.
o think Mr. Banner said Mr. Hightower
should have disqualified himself
from the case.
Judge Hightower said he never
eS discussed the case with his daugh-
ter and dismissed the appraisal's
district's allegations as sour grapes.
"This came as a real shock to me.
d to be My daughter is a grown woman and
or Mr. has been lobbying for years. . . . I
state's didn't know anything about what
khit was loe Mr .lih sower said.% i
" ;,
Gf 4year endorsed Mr. Banner, s2yiwn
that Mr. Hightower is unfriendly to
labor. The powerful Texas State
Teachers Association also threw its
support to Mr. Banner.
Judge Hightower said he was dis-
appointed by not getting the en-
dorsements, but noted that others
have won seats without support
from those groups.
And he said he has striven to h.
fair on the bench.
"I have tried to be objective
the court. I don't have a legislate
agenda, and I call them ile
them" he said
"I believe thlat a itp 1 ,
suit up v ithl nr
umpire.
Justice Eupe Lx. , on of
Republicans on the Supreme Co:
is unopposed in the primary.
will face Rose Spector of San Ar
nio - who also is unopposed - in
the fall.
Two Dallas appeals court judges,
meanwhile, are battling for the Re-
publican nomination for Justice
Mauzy's Supreme Court seat.
They are Charles Ben Howell of
Dallas, a perennial candidate who is
making his fourth race for the high
court, and Craig Enoch of Dallas,
chief justice of the Fifth District
Court of Appeals.
Mr. Howell, a former Fifth Dis
trict Court of Appeals judge who
GOP leaders tried unsuccessful to
keep out of the race, said he is run-
ning because only he can defeat Mr.
Mauzy in the fall.
"The fact is that they (GOP lead-
ers) went out and recruited their
golden haired boy and they didnk
want any challengers interfering,
Mr. Howell said.
He said if Mr. Enoch gets the
nomination, Gov. Ann Richards and
other influential Democrats will
flock to Justice Mauzy's aid beca a
of an incident in Dallas in 1982.
That year, Mr. Enoch, they,
state district judge, and several
other Republicans judges in Dallas
were accused of attempting to in-
timidate minority voters by putting
up signs in select precincts Warn-
ing of prison terms for voter fraud.
Several Democratic officials de-
nounced the warnings as a thinly
veiled attempt to discourage minor-
ities from voting.
"It was a misuse of judicial au
thority," Judge Howell said.
Mr. Enoch later apologized, for
his actions. He said he had put up
sime s higns.but not in minority ot-
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