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" It is my belief that the Republican Party could successfully fight off a lawsuit of that type based upon a relatively recent precedent in which the Arkansas Democrats were allowed to refuse to seat Lyndon LaRouche delegates at their convention even though they had won delegate slots under state law. The premise of that ruling was that political parties are PRIVATE organizations and can accordingly choose their own candidates. Laws that prevent them from doing so are therefore unconstitutional."

Great!

Let's lobby for this. Here's my thought of how it should work:
1. A super-majority of the Texas SREC (maybe 3/4s, 2/3rds, or unanamous) declares the vote in question due to voter error, shows evidence of voter error (we get some affidavits from Repub primary voters who voted for Bill Green and didnt know he was a Lib Dem and woefully regret their error) and calls upon the State to renominate in the State convention.

2. The delegates that cover the area of the 3rd court of appeals first vote to affirm that the vote in question should be thrown out, then after affirming that, they caucus to nominate and then elect the true GOP nominee.
3. Ernest Garcia is placed into nomination and then selected as the true candidate.

This can be tried on Smith, but IMHO that would be schismatic in a way that fixing hte Garcia/ Bill Green race wouldnt be.

"It is my belief that the Republican Party could successfully fight off a lawsuit of that type IF THEY WANTED TO..."

Here's how it should work: The Chair (Tina Benkhiser) and the SREC are the ones who need to be lobbied on this. They are the ones who could call an emergency meeting, change the party rules, and get Bill Green thrown off the ballot.

We can make the case on Bill Green because it was a clear case of "voter error". We can verify that by finding out some Republicans who voted for Green and see if they know what they voted for.

Here's how it should work: The Chair (Tina Benkhiser) and the SREC are the ones who need to be lobbied on this. They are the ones who could call an emergency meeting, change the party rules, and get Bill Green thrown off the ballot.

Unfortunately trying to get the current RPT leadership to do this is a lost cause. They are still loyal to the spineless pharisee who was our last chairman, Susan Weddington, and she is in the pocket of Rick Perry.

The only chance we have is to push something from the floor of the convention in San Antonio. We should also SERIOUSLY consider a movement to oust and replace the current leadership of the RPT including several SREC members for the simple reason that they have become to the state party what Robert Byrd is to the US Senate: old, washed up politicians who have no real interest in changing the status quo.