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In article <12460@tamsun.tamu.edu> cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick) writes:
:In article <2663@unisql.UUCP> alan@unisql.UUCP (Alan Weiss) writes:
:[...]
:$ Many people around the country are trying to get H. Ross Perot's
:$ name on the ballot.  Texas, Ross' home state, is no exception.
:
:[...]
:$ Who can sign?  These are the Texas State Election Laws:
:$ 
:$ 	1.  You MUST be a registered voter in the State of Texas.
:$ 
:$ 	2.  You MUST NOT have voted in the Primary.
:$ 
:$ 	3.  You MUST NOT have signed another petition to get someone
:$ 	    else on the ballot.
:
:
:Maybe some long-time Texans could take a moment and come out from  
:behind a sheep and tell me what in the hell is the justification for  
:these restrictions on who can and can't sign a petition to put  
:someone's name on an election ballot.

I'm not a "long-time Texan" and the suggestion concerning sheep
was undoubtedly intended to keep the question from being answered,
but I think the reasoning is obvious.

People who vote in the primaries are helping decide who should be
on the ballot.  You are allowed to vote for only one person, and
only in one party's primary.  Being able to sign petitions after
either voting in the primary or signing another petition would
allow one person two stabs at putting a name on the ballot.  Each
person gets either one vote or one petition signature.  Use it how
you want.

-- Don Varvel (varvel@cs.utexas.edu)