For Immediate Release: Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Contact: Andy Siegel, Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, LLP, for background and legal
analysis c/o Kim Meredith: (o): 214-780-1445 or, email: asiegel@shacklaw.net; or, Tim
Reeves (The Election Group, LLC) for Petition Signature Validation process and results:
(o): 214-824-8677; timreeves@theelectiongroup.com

5,555
Petition Effort for Dallas Beer and Wine Election
Falls Short of Required Number of Signatures
The City of Dallas has scheduled the City Council to consider the City Secretary’s
forthcoming Certification of a Local Option Election Petition at the Council’s meeting
tomorrow, June 23, 2010. The City Secretary will be requesting a November 2010,
election date setting an election citywide to legalize the indiscriminate sale of beer and
wine in all neighborhoods and throughout all of Dallas. A detailed and independent audit
and review of the Petition’s validity, however, shows the Petition has failed to garner
the required number of valid signatures to place the off-premise beer and wine issue
on the ballot for a November vote.

Under state law, the Petition must contain a minimum of 68,846 valid signatures of
registered voters in Dallas in order to earn a place on November’s ballot. The expert
review of the signatures collected on the Petition was commissioned by a consortium of
Dallas based businesses and property owners. The Petition Audit finds that:

1) at a minimum, the Petition falls short by at least 5,555 valid signatures, from
meeting the state’s threshold requirement for setting an election; and,
2) moreover, an ADDITIONAL 7987 signatures cannot lawfully be validated
because of concerns over the signatures’ authenticity, complete illegibility, non-
matching voter registration certificates and, similar disqualifications mandated
and authorized by state law.

The Election Group LLC, a recognized expert in local initiative and referendum, and
local option elections statewide, conducted the independent validation review of the
Petition.

Should the City of Dallas improperly certify the defective Petition for an election, Dallas
attorney Andy Siegel plans to challenge the decision in court, as he has done successfully
in similar cases.

Most recently, Siegel represented the Town of Addison and joined with the Dallas
County District Attorney to defend the Dallas County Commissioners Court’s recent
refusal to order a local option election based upon a defective certification of a petition.
The Commissioners Court properly deferred consideration of the defective petition and
the Texas Supreme Court upheld their refusal to order what would have been a futile and
invalid election and a waste of taxpayers’ dollars and votes.