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Results from selected criminal-justice related TX elections

By Gritsforbreakfast

What an election night! I don't know about y'all, but the precinct convention where I vote was a complete zoo. I left just before midnight, after convincing the group that remained to support the Grits resolutions on TYC and prison diversion, and they were still considering more resolutions when we left.When turnout is so high, there's no telling what will happen in an election (because pollsters typically only ask opinions in campaign surveys of those who voted in the past, so new voters' opinions aren't measured). You can get your Clinton/Obama news elsewhere, but lets look around the state to see how the important criminal justice races turned out:Court of Criminal Appeals: GOP voters returned incumbent Paul Womack to the bench over veteran District Judge Robert Francis from Dallas who said he was running because the court is no longer nationally respected...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).