Opponents of LGBT Protections Forged Signatures or Everyone in Houston Has the Same Handwriting
According to Houston Press, the city has pointed out that Jared Woodfill, the former Harris County Republican Chairman who filed suit to have the petitions validated, had previously accepted “facially valid” election petitions, though likely unknowingly. Nevertheless, Houston officials also provided samples of HERO signatures that were “purportedly from many different people, all of whom have the same handwriting.”
Because of these allegations, anti-gay activist Steven Hotze has dropped out of the suit he had originally filed jointly with Woodfill.
The blog HOUequality, set up by local activists to defend HERO, has also uncovered some incriminating information about the petition collection process. One of the individuals who helped collect signatures for the petition testified in his deposition that he did not actually collect the signatures that he signed off on. “They were not in my presence,” he admitted.
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