Cynthia Bailey
A court hearing set for Oct. 19 finally could end the election dispute that has delayed a runoff in Houston city council’s District B for nearly a year.
A state district judge is scheduled to hear an unopposed motion to set the election for Saturday, Dec. 12, which would be almost exactly a year after the initial runoff on Dec. 14, 2019.
Houston, Harris County and the three candidates involved in the dispute support that election date, according to legal filings.
Tarsha Jackson
That would mean voters in District B, which is concentrated in north Houston and stretches up to Bush International Airport, could elect a new representative in December.
Tarsha Jackson and Cynthia Bailey were the top two finishers in the general election last November and now would proceed to the runoff.
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The runoff could not be held on Nov. 3 because state law mandates it be held on the same date as the original election, which was a Saturday.
The date of the court hearing was delayed because state law prescribes a maximum amount of time between the court order and the runoff. Oct. 19 was the earliest date possible for a court order to get on the Dec. 12 ballot, according to legal filings.
See here for the previous update. December 12 is the date that a city runoff election would have been held this year, if there had been any city elections on the November ballot. It’s always the second Saturday in December. It sounds like this court hearing is pro forma, so once it’s over we should have an official, scheduled runoff election date. All I san say is “Hallelujah”.
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