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RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THIS WEEK ]
August
24, 2002 (Dallas) - Jose “Joe” May won the Dallas Independent
School District run off against opponent Mike Martinez through
mail-in ballots. Mr. May lost both the “in person” early
and regular election day, but managed to deliver 212 votes cast on
mail-in ballots--almost 4 times that of his opponent.
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May
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Martinez
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Total
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Mail-In
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212
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60
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272
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Early
In Person
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59
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81
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140
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Election
Day
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338
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441
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779
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609
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582
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1191
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According to the Dallas County Elections Department, 1,191 people
(or about 5% of the registered voters) voted in the run-off
election. 919 of those ballots were cast in person. Of these, Mr.
Martinez received 522 to Mr. May’s 397--a margin of about 57%.
However,
272 ballots were cast by mail. Of those, Mr. May received
212 (or an eye-popping 78%) compared to the 60 votes received by
his opponent.
Mr.
May, who has been described by the Dallas
Observer as a “street-level, get out the vote” political
operative who walks door-to-door helping people with mail-in
ballots, won the election by 27 votes.
Information
on mail-in ballot abuse can be found at VoteLegal.Com.
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UPDATE: August 28, 2002 - Mail-in Voting Records Online ]
According
to Dallas County election records, 275 mail-in ballots were
received from voters in the Martinez-May runoff. Of these, as
reported earlier, 212 were counted for Joe May while 60 were
counted for Mike Martinez.
Another
interesting statistic may prove to be the number of people who
wrote the Dallas County Elections Department requesting ballots,
but whose ballots were never received. According to the data, this
number is 121, or 30%. What happened to these ballots?
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