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Voting lawsuit upends election results in Loving County, Texas

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Judge rules 10 voters did not have enough connection to the area to legally cast ballots, tossing two local elections in the nation's least-populous county.

Oil-industry equipment and flares are common sights in the landscape around Mentone, the sparsely populated town in Loving County in West Texas that is experiencing an oil boom. Billy Calzada, Staff / Staff Photographer Home has always been a fluid concept in Loving County, where the most recent census showed about 65 residents while its voter registration roll numbered around 110. The gap is attributable mainly to former residents who moved away, some decades ago and hundreds of miles distant, but still claim the area as their residence for elections. The long-haul voters explain that…

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