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Early voting in Texas begins toda
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â–¡ A record number of the state's
citizens have registered to vote.
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas voters may begin
casting ballots in this year’s Democratic and
Republican party primaries today.
Under the state’s election law, the early
voting period for the March 12 primary elec
tions will run through March 8.
A record number of Texans, 9.4 million,
have registered to vote, Secretary of State
Tony Garza’s office reported Tuesday.
“We’re pleased the registration numbers
are up. The challenge now is getting those
voters who are registered out to the polls,”
said Gene Acuna, spokesman for Garza.
Voters in both major parties will be choos
ing nominees for president, U.S. Senate,
Congress, half the state Senate, all 150
Texas House members, a seat on the Rail
road Commission, four places on the Texas
Supreme Court, three places on the Court of
Criminal Appeals, and half the members of
the State Board of Education. Nominees in
hundreds of local races also will be chosen.
Runoff elections are scheduled for April 9.
“The primaries are the first step in shaping
the ballot for the November general election.
Regardless of one’s party affiliation, I urge
Texans to vote and to voice an opinion on your
party’s nominating process,” Garza said.
Acuna said the growing popularity of ear
ly voting means that as many as one-third of
the primary ballots may be cast before
March 12.
He also said election officials were encour
aged by the registration numbers.
“A big reason for that is the ease of regis
tration in Texas. You can register at court
houses, where you always could, but a
high schools, when renewing your drivel
cense, when you apply for a state sen|
he said.
“But we don’t really know ifthosev
who are signing up in these spots arej
to show up on Election Day.”
Acuna said some counties conducts
voting at the courthouse, while othersis
vigorous programs designed to makeite
er for voters to find a polling place.
“Many election administrators and c
clerks tend to go all out for these elections'll
said. “You have the Travis and Bexaro
ties, which go to shopping malls ands
markets. And some move early votingt
place to place” to make it easier for voters
Acuna said that the secretary of statc^
not yet issued a prediction on voter tin
for the primary.
Judge moves Oklahoma
bombing trial to Denver
â–¡ The move sides with the
defense. No trial date has
been set.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A feder
al judge moved the Oklahoma City
bombing case to Denver on Tuesday,
saying the need to protect the defen
dants from a public thirst for
vengeance outweighs the desire of the
victims’ families to attend the trial.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols
“have been demonized,” U.S. District
Judge Richard Matsch wrote. “There is
so great a prejudice against these two
defendants in the state of Oklahoma
that they cannot obtain a fair and im
partial trial at any place fixed by law
for holding court in that state.”
He did not set a trial date.
Prosecutors had urged Matsch to
move the trial to Tulsa, about 90 miles
from the bomb site, so that victims’
families could easily attend. But
Matsch, chief federal judge in Denver,
sided with the defense, which wanted
the trial held in Denver.
“The interests of the victims in be
ing able to attend this trial in Okla
homa are outweighed by the court’s
obligation to assure that the trial be
conducted with fundamental fairness
and with due regard for all constitu
tional requirements,” the judge said.
The April 19 bombing of the Alfred
P. Murrah Federal Building killed 169
people and injured more than 500 in the
deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
The judge said, “There is a fair infer
ence that only a guilty verdict with a
death sentence could be considered a
just result in the minds of many.”
McVeigh and Nichols could face the
death penalty.
Victims’ families said it will be
hard for some to attend the trial 500
miles away.
“I plan on going several times during
the trial, but not every day,” said Aren
Almon, whose year-old daughter Baylee
died in the bombing and was pho
tographed in the arms of a firefighter.
Attorney General Janet Reno said
the government will not fight the move
to Denver and will do everything possi
ble “to provide survivors and loved ones
with an opportunity to observe and fol
low events in the courtroom.”
Under the broad definition used by
prosecutors, anywhere from 750 to
more than 2,000 people are considered
victims of the blast. That includes the
families of those killed and survivors
of the bombing.
Oklahoma Attorney General Drew
Edmondson said that he has asked fed
eral officials to provide money to help
victims attend the trial in Denver.
“Every defense witness will be pro
vided with a plane ticket and lodging
to attend the trial, and I think it’s ap
propriate that same right be granted
to victims and families of victims,” Ed
mondson said.
In Denver, Mayor Wellington Webb
said a city safety team already has
held preliminary meetings in anticipa
tion of the move. “People in Denver,
given their Western ethic, will work
with those families and work with th
courts,” Webb said.
Defense lawyers were pleased by
the move to Denver.
“Colorado appears to be a district
where we can get a fair trial based on
the evidence,” said Rob Nigh, one of
McVeigh’s lawyers.
U.S. District Judge Wayne Alley had
originally set the trial for Lawton, 90
miles from Oklahoma City.
Supreme Court to rult
on cable-local TV cast
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court'
decide an issue that could mean life or death for
small television stations: whether Congress can ft
cable systems to carry local broadcast signals.
Cable TV companies say the 1992 “must carry"
violates their constitutionally protected right to
speech. They argue that the law gives broadcasters
unfair advantage over other programmers com]
for space in cable TV systems.
But the Clinton administration says the law
needed to keep many broadcasters, mainly small
dependent or public stations, from being driven
of business.
Returning from a four-week recess Tuesday,
court also let stand government-imposed limits on
ble rates that have saved customers several bill
dollars since 1992. The justices refused to hear Til]
Warner Entertainment Co.’s argument that the
suiting 17 percent rate cut violated cable companii
right to free speech.
On another subject, the court heard arguments
whether two former Los Angeles policemen can avoi
serving additional time behind bars for their parti
the 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney King.
The justices also issued orders in more than 51
cases. They:
— Turned away a “right to die” dispute in whicha
Michigan woman sought to end life-sustaining mei
ical treatment for her husband.
— Agreed to use a California case to clarify whei
the government can deport some immigrants who en
tered the country through fraud.
— Let Colorado keep a monument engraved with tl*
Ten Commandments in a public park near the Capitol
As for cable TV, more than 60 percent of American
households subscribe and there is heavy compete'/,
for channel space on cable systems.
The must-carry provision of the 1992 cable TV law
requires cable operators to set aside some of their chan
nels for commercial and public broadcast stations.
Congress enacted the requirement because smaller,
independent broadcasters not affiliated with networks
feared cable companies would drop them. They then
could lose advertising and face going out of business,
The court is expected to issue a decision by mid-1997.
You are cordially invited to attend an
Open House
for the Department of
Multicultural Services
and the
Office of Diversity Education
from 2:00 until 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 22, 1996
Rooms 137 and 147 MSC
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