Texas U.S. Rep. Runoff r

[Tom Round]

Thanks to Ed Still for kindly answering my query:

>    The Court ordered a special election to be held in newly drawn 
districts
even though all districts in Texas had nominated candidates in primaries
held earlier in the year.  The special election was open to all candidates.
 If no candidate received a majority in the November election, there would
be a runoff between the top two candidates.

This means, I assume, that when the "offending" districts' boundaries were 
voided by the Court, this automatically also annulled the results of the 
primary elections in those districts, held some months earlier. And instead 
of a fresh primary, shortly before a general election, both to be held (?) 
by Plurality, the Court sought to save time by stipulating a general 
election by Runoff instead. Thus, instead of a certainty of three elections, 
there is now a certainty of only two and a possibility of a third.

Tom Round (tomr at orgo.cad.gu.edu.au)

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