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As GOP...discuss Moore stepping aside, state election official says he can’t be removed
WHNT19 ^ | November 9, 2017 | Chris Davis

Posted on 11/10/2017 11:21:06 AM PST by Cheerio

FULL TITLE - As GOP lawmakers discuss Roy Moore stepping aside, state election official says he can’t be removed from the ballot

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) - Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill tells WHNT News 19 Roy Moore's name was already printed on Alabama's ballot after the nominees were confirmed back in October. Merrill also pointed out many voters have already cast their ballot for Moore, considering absentee ballots were sent out October 15th.

This comes as prominent members of the US Senate and the Republican Party, from Mitch McConnell to Richard Shelby to John McCain, say Roy Moore should step aside if the allegations are true.

Merrill says, there's nothing the Republican Party can do to remove Roy Moore from the ballot, but they can encourage a write-in campaign.

The only thing that could make votes no longer count for Moore would be for the candidate to remove himself from the race.

(Excerpt) Read more at whnt.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: moore; swamp
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To: MrEdd

Come on. Republicans have done this before. They find candidates that appeal to just enough people to win a primary, but not the general election. Time after time this results in the GOP losing elections they should win. Alabama is another example.


21 posted on 11/10/2017 12:24:36 PM PST by mcjordansc
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To: mcjordansc

What are you talking about? We need to primary EVERY RINO out there.


22 posted on 11/10/2017 12:26:29 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mcjordansc

F off. Alabamans wil elect Moore and you will eat those words.


23 posted on 11/10/2017 12:27:32 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: MrEdd

Thanks.


24 posted on 11/10/2017 12:28:10 PM PST by cowboyusa
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To: Lurkinanloomin

As a Jewess on the US, I can only point out that the number of women who allegedly DATED, but had no sex with, Roy Moore is EXACTLY the same number who accused President Clinton of FORCIBLE RAPE, a FAR more serious offense. Now we know why all REAL Americans put our 2nd Amendment FIRST. Just sayin’!


25 posted on 11/10/2017 12:34:48 PM PST by 2harddrive
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To: LostPassword
He should be gone if he did it.
This has the stench of Dan Rather and the “Texas Air National Guard Memos” about it. Even if we hadn’t had the fingerprints of Microsoft Word ™ to prove it, you could pretty much tell that an explosive charge like that would’ve turned up years earlier if there had been anything to it. There was plenty of incentive to find it in Bush’s case when he twice ran for governor of Texas, and similarly Judge Moore has been "holier than Democrats” and with a high and even national profile for, it must be 2 decades by now.

I dismiss the charges out of hand on the basis that there is no pattern of abuse that we would have heard about long before this, given the politics. On top of the absence of a history, there is the fact that we know for a fact that the WaPo would not have published this story about a Democrat. There was the Monica Lowenski story, only published because Drudge blew the lid off. And “the Breck Girl” and his side squeeze. Journalism judges the significance of a story according to whose ox is being gored.

This is a pure “he said, she said” case. It’s presumably impossible to prove the negative of the charges against Judge Moore, and that’s one reason we have a statute of limitations. And the other reason is that it can only be so important to punish someone who has been clean for, what? - forty years in this case? Not electing Hillary was too important to swallow the smears of Trump, and not electing a Democrat for one senator out of a hundred, with a narrowly split Senate is too important to be credulous of these charges.


26 posted on 11/10/2017 12:37:29 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: central_va

Maybe we can place a wager on that. I doubt Moore even sniffs a win come election day. The guy is toast.


27 posted on 11/10/2017 12:39:42 PM PST by mcjordansc
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To: Cheerio

Has the story been investigated?? Is it true or false??


28 posted on 11/10/2017 12:45:16 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Cheerio

Donation to Support Judge Roy Moore for U.S. Senate

https://www.roymoore.org/Support-Judge-Moore/


29 posted on 11/10/2017 1:28:16 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Hitlers Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: Cheerio

Dear Republican Elites, sorry but us conservatives are going to remake the party and you can go F yourself. We are not going to tell US who to vote for.


30 posted on 11/10/2017 4:12:47 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: MrEdd; mcjordansc

I was thinking the same thing about mcjordansc. What is it? You a troll?


31 posted on 11/10/2017 5:01:15 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: mcjordansc

Are you Doug Jones’ campaign manager? You sound like it...Troll get lost....


32 posted on 11/10/2017 5:03:39 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: mcjordansc

“Wacko”?...go back to the DIM underground.


33 posted on 11/12/2017 9:50:14 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

>>They do not intend to allow us to keep the rule of law or our country.
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This is the bottom line. They will fight to the finish, proving that if patriots want their country back, they are going to have to fertilize that liberty tree.


34 posted on 11/12/2017 9:56:31 AM PST by Kalamata
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