! Am I seeing things?

I just read this in the Courier

“According to Alicia Pierce, spokeswoman for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, this might not be technically illegal. Pierce couldn’t speak directly about these cases, but she said the current statute regarding voter residency doesn’t have specific guidelines.

I have a big problem with that statement right there – what about ELECTION LAW OPINION GSC-1 ????  Thats the one they gave me in 2010, has it been rescinded?  In GSC-1 it tells me the following.

1. The definition of residence for the purpose of voter registration is well
   settled in Texas.
2. “[n]either bodily presence alone nor
   intention alone will suffice to create the residence, but when the two
   coincide at that moment the residence is fixed and determined
3. There is no specific length of time for the bodily presence to continue.”
4. The statutory definition of residence adopts Texas common law, reinforcing the notion
   that residence involves a mixed question of law and fact.
5. my office (SOS ) is statutorily authorized to give voters the definition of
   residence for them to use when completing the voter registration application.
6. Evidence of intent to establish domicile may include, but is not limited to, such factors as
   where a person “exercises civil and political rights, pays taxes, owns real and personal property,
   has driver’s and other licenses, maintains bank accounts, belongs to clubs and churches, has
   places of business or employment, and maintains a home for his family.”
7. An applicant filling out a Texas voter registration form is not required to state that the
   residence will be his or her home forever, or for the next five years, or even the next year.
8. No more or less can be required of college students during the voter registration
   process than any other Texas voter.
9. Texas law does not require a statement of durational future residence
10. These principles apply equally to college students as well as other voters, and no more
    can be required of them in order for them to register and vote in the State of Texas.

“Statute defines residency based on where a voter intends to return after a brief absence,” she said.” “Statute defines residency based on where a voter intends to return after a brief absence,” she said.

But when I told the jury that was what the law said and I believed it they laughed and said what the hell, just shut up and go to jail. And  Phil Grant was there asserting that he had done all he could to tell me not to break the law. The Jury believed Phil, but not me. Huh? Phil wants to be judge too. He’s tired of just being executioner.

“The Texas Attorney General’s Office prosecuted these cases; however, the AG’s Office wouldn’t comment as to why The Woodlands RUD case differs from temporary voters for municipal district elections.”

No comment, really, that’s what they said. No comment.  Probably what they meant was, “hey we send people away to the penitentiary, that’s in our mission statement, its a process. Don’t get worked up about quaint notions  like innocence and such and hey, we don’t make no stinking comments!”

Anyway read the story here