The letter reads as follows:

“Commissioners Court,

Maverick County Elections Administrator Roy Schmerber acknowledged, last Wednesday under oath, that the minimum number of signatures calculation for the tax rate rollback petition to be valid did not subtract the “S” suspense voters on January 9, 2017.  The Elections Division of the Texas Secretary of State verified on January 20, 2017 that the “S” voters must be subtracted according to Section 277.0024 of the Texas Election Code.  By subtracting the “S” voters pursuant to state law, the 7 percent required minimum number of signatures should have been, at most, 1,952, and the County Elections Office confirmed on January 9, 2017 that the number of rollback petition signatures collected was 2,067.

The entire point of the January 9, 2017 resolution was to inform the public that the rollback petition failed to collect enough signatures, so would you have still voted for the resolution at the time if you knew this wasn’t true?  Now that you have confirmation that it wasn’t true, how is not amending or rescinding the resolution at this point not the same as knowingly voting to pass a resolution containing false information or a conclusion only reached by violating state law?

The January 9 resolution was unanimous, so the community is now looking to see if there is not one single member of Commissioners Court that has the courage or decency to put this on the agenda for a vote so the public can hear from members why it shouldn’t be corrected.

Thank you,

Nora H. Maldonado”