Texas GOP Rejects 2024 Ballot Question On Secession

December 29, 2023 Politics, Republicans

The Texan reports:

The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) rejected a petition to place the question of Texas secession on the 2024 primary ballot — and the group behind the effort has promised a lawsuit.

The Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) — the foremost supporters of the idea referred to as “TEXIT” — turned in over 139,000 signatures earlier this month on the filing deadline with the question, “Should the State of Texas reassert its status as an independent nation?”

Many of the petitions were circulated through DocuSign, an electronic paperwork service that allows legal documents to be signed online. TNM says that method is sufficient, but the party has ruled otherwise.

Dallas’s PBS affiliate reports:



Texas GOP chairman Matt Rinaldi wrote in an open letter that only about 8,300 of the purported 139,000 signatures the Texas Nationalist Movement collected were in the petition signer’s own handwriting, and the rest electronically submitted.

“For these reasons, the voter petitions delivered by the Texas Nationalist Movement on December 11 are rejected as untimely and, even if they had been timely submitted, do not contain the required 97,709 valid signatures to place a matter on the 2024 Republican Primary ballot,” Rinaldi wrote.

But the TNM disputes the party’s claims. “It is clear that the Republican Party of Texas is grasping for any tactic, no matter how ridiculous, to suppress the voices of Republican voters,” Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, wrote in a statement.

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