I hope more maga votes get thrown out from errors, if they're 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!
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Unfortunately they're specifically going after the provisional ballots because that's what's widening Colom's lead so late. So that probably wouldn't happen
provisional ballots are the ones that get the most scrutiny before being included in the tally, too.
And aren't provisional ballots supposed to be included in the event the race is within 100 votes or something similar? I'm sure it varies state to state but that's what I remember of their purpose.
Lauren Boebert's starting to whine about "voting irregularities" in her loss, too. All they got left is their greatest hits, and nostalgia over the good old days of 2017.
They deserve a progressive person who cares. The GRAY OLD PEDOS had their shot.
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Would be funny if more of their own votes got thrown out because of this process and the Dem candidate's lead increased.
Dem's like 1700 in the lead right already. I think it's pretty much a done deal.
large numbers of Mississippians were forced to vote by affidavit ballot after Secretary of State Michael Watson (R) flagged 230,000 voter registrations as “inactive.”
and if the "inactives" were targetted, then provisional/affidavit votes would just boost that lead.
I think they wouldn't be surprised, but it's worth a shot because if they do nothing, they lose; if they do this, they might lose or might win, so of course they'll try. I'd want Dems trying any ethical challenges were it the other way.
This isn't ethical though.
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 there's 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 "in case of close race, open me."
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 "chase and cure," 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 doesn't 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 doesn't 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 it's a lot of hopium.
Lmao, Mississippi doesn’t have a recount mechanism, literally the only state without one.
I actually didn't 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.
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 doesn’t matter because a clear winner is apparent before it gets to that.
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The Republican Party is demanding that Mississippi election officials “separate and preserve” all provisional ballots cast in the midterms
Isn’t this a standard thing? These haven’t been counted yet, but will be if they can be validated or something.
"We expect you to do what you're supposed to do. Not like us, who would steal, hide, and destroy the ballots."
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 time....
It's the only race close enough to even try lol let's 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 can't see why a judge would give a warrant to recount them
So without proven fraud, I can’t see why a judge would give a warrant to recount them
Loyal bootlicking Red judge in red state. That's all they need
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Predictable as always
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