Posted on 12/28/2017 12:05:29 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Roy Moore's campaign launched a last-minute court battle late Wednesday to block his loss in Alabama's special Senate election from becoming official.
Democrat Doug Jones defeated Moore, a Republican former justice of the state Supreme Court who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, in the Dec. 12 election to assume the Senate seat of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Moore has refused to concede the election, which he had been widely expected to win before allegations of sexual misconduct with underage girls emerged late in the campaign. Moore has denied all of the allegations.
The Alabama State Canvassing Board is scheduled to meet Thursday afternoon to certify Jones' victory. But the Moore campaign filed a complaint late Wednesday night in state circuit court in Montgomery, the state capital, seeking a temporary restraining order to postpone the certification, alleging "potential election fraud that improperly altered the outcome of this election."
"This is not a Republican or Democrat issue as election integrity should matter to everyone," Moore said in a statement released by the campaign.
The statement gives few details of the purported irregularities, which it says were substantiated "with a reasonable degree of statistical and mathematical certainty" by three election experts.
The statement identifies only one of the experts, Richard Charnin, whom it quotes as saying the probability that the official election results were accurate was "less than one in 15 billion."
Charnin, who says he has three degrees in applied mathematics, is a prominent figure among believers that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the result of a conspiracy. He has also argued that the Republicans stole the 2004 presidential election and that Hillary Clinton stole the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
State officials said last week that they had found no evidence of voter fraud in the Alabama Senate race
He’s desperate, although this might maintain the Republicans having a 52 Senator majority for awhile longer.
Raise hell, Judge Moore. This entire farce of an election should see him file a RICO lawsuit for collusion between the Democrats, the Republican Party and the media to destroy him, his character, and his election chances. Overturn the whole damn thing.
“What Happened” written by Judge Roy Moore.
Nope.
I am happy that he is continuing to fight. The communists think they are the only ones who are allowed to challenge election results until their candidate wins!
Here is a version that is more friendly to Moore:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3617473/posts
Mr. Moore has withstood a withering attack from both parties, numbskull pundits, media and other assorted maroons. The Politics of Personal Destruction should not defeat him, but I don’t know where help will come to save him, but I pray.
Psalm 121:1 {A Song of degrees.} I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
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Maybe that’s where Judge Moore thinks his help will come from. We’ll see what God decides.
If Roy Moore had put as much effort into his campaign as he is putting into this challenge to the election results, he probably would have won.
All this hard work Moore is doing should have been done during the campaign. He spent his last weekend going out of state to watch the Army-Navy instead of campaigning to maintain whatever lead he may have had.
Roy should go to a football game instead.
Nope.
Or as Vanity Fair might say, "What the Hell Happened!".
It turns out that Moore was not the hilltop to do or die upon. Corker and Flake were already trophies, this one should have been managed from a slam dunk perspective, and that was never Roy Moore. I think even Trump's instincts knew this and why he endorsed Luther Strange.
I get the feeling Roy Moore was like Hillary on election night - shocked. He never thought he would lose.
And like Hillary he thought he could win without campaigning.
You’re probably right. He sure didn’t campaign like a winner.
His defenders had offered some strong evidence of false claims against him which they posted here in FR. Which I compiled and posted here dozens of times encouraging the distribution of through copying and email. Particularly to talk shows by FR’s but that plea turned out perhaps because of passivity and the post and go nature (don’t read commentaries) to be a waste of time .
What Moore should be doing now if his claims are true is take this into the courts. By winning in these cases this kind of krap would be discouraged and his GOP detractors put to shame.
No doubt voter fraud occurred. There is no way there was enough voter fraud to change the outcome of the election.
Voter fraud should be pursued as a crime committed by criminals who should be prosecuted. Voter fraud should be prosecuted because it is wrong, not because it impacts the outcome of an election.
The same is true, not just of AL, but of every state. In Atlanta there were isolated cases of voter fraud. Apparently not enough to change the 832 vote margin. But those few voter fraud incidents that did occur should be pursued.
If there was a potential for fraud, the election was not valid. None of them are.
There is a very real possibility they brought in 10,000 illegal votes.
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