Smith County Judge vacancy withheld from public (+/- 6wks) until election opportunity was abrogated.

Allegedly, Smith County Commissioners withheld news of a Justice of the Peace vacancy until the opportunity for a public election by We The People had been abrogated. Doesn't his pattern of Judge "selection" seem far too common in Texas? Has an oath been broken? Has our Constitutional Article IV guarantee of a Republican Form been violated? Perhaps the SCJC.texas.gov can investigate?