All the secretary is doing is enforcing the requirements and guidelines set forth for independent candidates in the election code. There is nothing political about it.

All the decisions are based entirely on the election code.

If you leave the state for temporary purposes, that doesn't automatically mean you lose your Texas residency. In the state statutes, there are some guidelines for maintaining that residency.

It will take a criminal investigation to determine what happened and what will result because of that.

It's not unusual for counties to turn in results that late.

For an automatic trigger, it has to be a tie.

They didn't have the votes from Election Day. All that was sent to us was the early voting total.

Oh, I booed him. He left here for the money. He's a traitor.

There's nothing political about it. In Texas, there are certain requirements for independent candidates to get a place on the ballot, and our office is applying those to each candidate this election cycle.

At this point it's a declaration of her intent, not an application for a place on the ballot. We're reviewing everything appropriately before we say one way or the other and will wait until tomorrow before we say anything further.