A challenge to the outcome of Texas House District 48 has been filed in Travis County.  The contest was decided by 12 votes.  The complaint is here.

Dan Neil, the Republican filed the lawsuit attacking the certification on a wide range of very interesting matters. Included among these is a claim that over 1,900 ineligible voters are on the rolls, including dead people that voted.  This will be a rather elementary matter to prove if in fact people voted in the names of the dead.  Score one for Texas Voter ID if true, also. 

Next, the complaint alleges that overseas ballots were treated, shall we say, very poorly.  In particular, overseas and military voters were told in written instructions that they could vote a straight party ticket, and did in fact vote a straight party GOP ticket, only to learn that their votes for some contests were thrown out.  On the other hand, straight part Democrat votes on overseas ballots were counted. 

If the plaintiff finds any ineligible votes cast, the Texas Voter ID legislation may have found a contemporary rational basis to support the law.