The Republican Party is demanding that Mississippi election officials āseparate and preserveā all provisional ballots cast in the midterms ā the first step in a likely bid to throw out votes in the stateās extremely close U.S. Senate race*.
The vote count is ongoing, and Democrat Scott Colom currently leads Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Ā® by several hundred votes, with certification due by Nov. 13. His victory would represent a significant upset in the stateās Republican-dominated politics.
They deserve a progressive person who cares. The GRAY OLD PEDOS had their shot.
Just wait until you hear about the Epstein files! Surrounded by old gray Democrat pedophiles.
Itās awful!
Search āWho was on lolita express epstein filesā to start and go from there.
Great, letās lock them up too! EVERYONE in the Epstein files needs their comeuppance!
But hey buddyā¦guess whoās name is in there THE MOST? š¤£
Happy 5th of November!
Remember, remember!
Iām trying, Iām trying! But I forgot to write it down! Fuck, my wife was right about me: I gotta put everything in the calendar or in a noteā¦
This is the funniest part of the whole discourse. People act like we canāt bring charges against Republicans because then weād have to also charge Democrats. I really feel like most people in the world donāt really care who is charged, as long as they are finally brought to justice. There are some people who donāt want their āsideā to face justice. Those people are wrong. I donāt care if you were in charge of the biggest and best charity organization. If youāve done wrong like the people in the Epstein files, you deserve all the punishment.
The only people who donāt want their side to face justice are on the side of pedos. Their side, irrespective of the political spectrum is the side of pedos.
Republicans think theyāre protected because thatās how they operate, they protect their own, and they canāt see that not everyone acts like them.
So what? All pedos should be charged. Just because youāre willing to defend pedophile rapists like Trump doesnāt mean the rest of us are like you. We actually have principles.
Oh you again, with this same bullshit. Like we said last time, no one is defending Democrats! Why do you think thatās some āgot yaā? The Republicans are the ones preventing things from being released though.
Anyone seeing this, remember that you can tag users. This guy is constantly a Republican troll.
This isnāt āteamā issue. We donāt care whose party pedoes are in, get them all.
Did they stop counting them? The number seems to be holding steady at 96%
Provisional ballots are created when a voter shows up at the poll, but thereās some kind of problem with their registration that prevents them from voting. On election day the provisional ballots are tossed in a metaphorical pile labelled āin case of close race, open me.ā
In most elections, the margin of victory is high enough that no one needs to open the provisional ballots or check their eligibility.
But in this race, it is close enough, so they now need to check whether each individual provisional vote is really eligible to vote or not. This is called āchase and cure,ā and it usually involves tracking down and talking to the voters and others (the chase) and getting whatever documentation is missing to establish the eligibility (the cure).
The Republican party doesnāt want these ballots to be cured or counted, because they expect the votes inside to skew heavily Democratic. So they will oppose. Partly because they caused a bunch of the provisional ballots by kicking people off the rolls wrongly.
However, I think this is a pretty good position for Colom, if he has an 1,800 lead or so, and he expects any added votes to skew to him.
So, let me get this straight: the Republican candidate is currently behind and wants them to stop counting?
Reminds me of 2020 election when in some states, Trump was urging the election officials to stop counting ballots, meanwhile urging other states to keep count every ballot.
Self awareness is not his strong suit. That was stop counting in Michigan but keep counting in AZ. Fucking putz.
Self awareness is not his strong suit.
That assumes that Trump was unaware of the hypocrisy, and would have cared if he had realized. That is a false assumption - Trump is a psychopath, literally doesnāt feel bad about breaking moral norms.
I think the whole strategy is to win the provisional ballot fight and get the secretary of state to trigger a recount on the main ballots and hope that recount goes really well for them and shutdown any further recounting after that and then somehow keep the provisionals from ever being counted.
I think itās a lot of hopium.
Lmao, Mississippi doesnāt have a recount mechanism, literally the only state without one.
I actually didnāt doubt they have lawyers standing by with a completely procedurally unsound emergency brief to the Supreme Court to demand they stop counting, ready to file at any moment Colom gets behind in the count.
They expect them to be heavily Democratic because the voter purge they performed to suppress votes targeted likely Democratic voters.
The vote count is ongoing,
Itās been at that same percentage for over a day. I should have mentioned that part.
Itās Mississippi, theyāre slow counters.
Do you know WHY it takes Mississippi this long to count the votes?
One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippiā¦
I heard an Alabamian say āThank God for Mississippi, or weād be forty-tenth in education.ā
Iām impressed they made it to 96 honestly
Maybe some red hat observer inspecting each counted?
I think they allow any postal ballots with postal date up to election day, so they have to wait 10 days IIRC for them to arrive. Normally it doesnāt matter because a clear winner is apparent before it gets to that.
Would be funny if more of their own votes got thrown out because of this process and the Dem candidateās lead increased.
Demās like 1700 in the lead right already. I think itās pretty much a done deal.
large numbers of Mississippians were forced to vote by affidavit ballot after Secretary of State Michael Watson Ā® flagged 230,000 voter registrations as āinactive.ā
and if the āinactivesā were targetted, then provisional/affidavit votes would just boost that lead.
I think they wouldnāt be surprised, but itās worth a shot because if they do nothing, they lose; if they do this, they might lose or might win, so of course theyāll try. Iād want Dems trying any ethical challenges were it the other way.
This isnāt ethical though.
Aaaaand here we go folks! Honestly took them longer than I expected to start the fash response. Oh this is gonna be such a fun fucking timeā¦
Itās the only race close enough to even try lol letās not let them have it!
The comical thing is that 49 states have written laws pertaining to automatically doing a recount if the numbers are this close. Kind of like Florida did in 2000. Mississippi is that 1 of 50 states that does not have one.
So without proven fraud, I canāt see why a judge would give a warrant to recount them
So without proven fraud, I canāt see why a judge would give a warrant to recount them
Loyal bootlicking Red judge in red state. Thatās all they need
My co-worker claimed that Mississippi has no legal path to even authorize a recount. Do you know if thatās true? Sometimes her facts areā¦ Off.
Does seeing multiple people on Lemmy say it count as evidence?
I was hoping to outsource searching for links to corroborate/ disagree to Lemmy usersā¦ I guess itās a big assumption that they would cite their sources.
I saw this the other day but havenāt actually read it.
Thanks!
Alaska has been showing a ~600 vote difference since this morning. Only 74% counted, but still, thatās pretty dang close!
Alaska will take a very long time, I suspect. Ranked choice voting is better, but requires effectively a full count before redistributing losing-candidate votes.
Iāve read that this is also compounded by how remote some of the communities in Alaska are - it simply takes longer to collect up all the votes to begin with.
As one reporter put it, a four square mile area in Anchorage has the same population as an area the size of Germany. Anchorage isnāt a huge city.
The state is also huge and rural. Itās something like 20% the size of the lower 48, full of mountains and forests. I assume that a lot of that information is transmitted, but I also assume that there is a lot of snail mail that takes its time.
There are several congressional races that are also this close
Lauren Boebertās starting to whine about āvoting irregularitiesā in her loss, too. All they got left is their greatest hits, and nostalgia over the good old days of 2017.
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The Republican Party is demanding that Mississippi election officials āseparate and preserveā all provisional ballots cast in the midterms
Isnāt this a standard thing? These havenāt been counted yet, but will be if they can be validated or something.
āWe expect you to do what youāre supposed to do. Not like us, who would steal, hide, and destroy the ballots.ā
I hope more maga votes get thrown out from errors, if theyāre going to start all these excuses again to try to throw out votes. The illegal votes are mostly maga folks in cases I recall, but there is data to verify if one wants to. Also, congrats to all the Dem wins and it shows how much voting matters!
Unfortunately theyāre specifically going after the provisional ballots because thatās whatās widening Colomās lead so late. So that probably wouldnāt happen
provisional ballots are the ones that get the most scrutiny before being included in the tally, too.
And arenāt provisional ballots supposed to be included in the event the race is within 100 votes or something similar? Iām sure it varies state to state but thatās what I remember of their purpose.
Predictable as always
Called it like a week ago.
Iām not psychic, they just do this every election. Itās a great way to waste millions of dollars.
āWutās the number after, uh, four, six, six, uh, sevun, sevun, five?ā
-receives blank stares
When they run out of options, exploitations, and false reality, they will openly attempt to cheat
