They pushed county election officials to apply the strictest interpretation of the rules.
In offering its interpretation of the rules today, the administration emphasized the need for common sense.
Mr. Wehrum, as an E.P.A. official, called the revision "a common-sense interpretation" of the rules.
Cornered, Mr Craddick came up with a bizarre interpretation of the rules.
In response to the public outcry, he says, the police relaxed their interpretation of the rules.
The interpretation of the rules might even vary within different state parks, he said.
"If there is a problem with interpretation of the rules, that could be a possible review by C.A.S.," he said.
Judges who ignore Judge Lippman's interpretation of the rules could face censure by the Commission on Judicial Conduct.
"Every RNC member is entitled to have their own interpretation of the rules," RNC spokeswoman Allison Moore said.
I'd like to know what the interpretation of the rules are, because it's blatantly different to what I've seen tonight".
"Such a process of extension may well lead to members inadvertently and in all innocence falling foul of a new interpretation of the rules," she warned the committee.
