Posted on 12/16/2017 10:34:48 AM PST by Jocallag
Alabama’s recent hotly contested special U.S. Senate election was marred by considerable ballot confusion caused by the state’s straight party voting ballot which allowed voters two ways to vote for the two candidates. The election which Democrat Doug Jones won by 22,000 votes is still under the shadow of a possible recount request from his Republican opponent Roy Moore.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights group overseeing the election, said 300 voters had “contacted them to report a range of difficulties” through “a voter protection hotline throughout the day” as of early Tuesday evening including confusion over the ballot design.
Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee, said “voters were … confused about ‘straight ticket’ voting” reference on the ballot “that lets people choose all the candidates from a single party by simply checking one box. According to Clarke, voters wanted to know what would happen if they checked the box for one party, but then also wanted to vote for another party’s candidate in one race.”
The special election ballot design was especially confusing in this election as there was only one partisan race on the ballot. This gave voters two ways to support their candidate in the contest. On top of the ballot was a straight party preference ballot option for the two major parties and right under it were the names of the two U.S. Senate candidates with their party labels plus a write-in option.
McConnell’s Senate is blocking Trump’s nominees now.
Moore is fighting harder to win the election after he lost than he did during the campaign.
McConnell and the establishment know they can't screw the base on the issue.
Stop making excuses for the establishment. You're the one spinning nonesense.
Still upset if rumor about a precinct with 1100 registered voters turned in 26,000 votes .
So he’s admitting his voters are idiots.
exactly.
just. stop.
look, if the law calls for a recount if he can afford it, then do it.
but I think this ship has sailed.
Well, given that both the paper ballots and the digital images were destroyed or are being destroyed what are the chances of a recount? Zero. Just exactly the way the Media-Democrat-Republican Uniparty wants it. Again, why even vote if the outcome is fixed?
screw McConnell the traitor, lets win those seats, sit in Trump like republicans and get rid of McConnell’s leadership role. Replace him
“He’s not going to pick up 21,000 votes.”.......
Perhaps if they allowed him to eliminate all the dead people votes, illegals immigrant votes and the out of state votes, he could then add the military votes and still win.
What a shame the ONE THING that used to be sacred was WE, as honest citizens had the right to pick those who would represent us........NOT anymore, the demodummie mafia does it for us.
“In a sane world, a court would require a new vote. But that will never happen”....
Where did you say that “sane world” might be, I’d like to move there.
1,318,255 62.1% .. Trump 729,547 34.4 .. ClintonNow where did those 500,000+ voters go? You reckon they
Not true. The paper ballots are retained. The digital images of the paper ballots are not retained.
In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records.
...HOW CONVENIENT!!
Ya just can't make this stuff up. We are living in a time when common sense is scorned and corruption is applauded. Heaven help us!!
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/in_final-hour_order_court_rule.html
Two Trump judge nominees out after criticism
Brett Talley had not tried a court case, while Jeff Mateer called transgender children part of ‘Satan’s plan.’
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/13/brett-talley-trump-nominee-withdraws-295322
No kidding.
[We are living in a time when common sense is scorned]
Especially since 2008........
My jaw dropped at all the morons swooning over the obvious fraud and antichrist spirit Barack Hussein Obama. It was very bizarre to see in real-time. It was like the insane fervor for Adolph Hitler.
Here comes all the surrender Monkeys!
Cognitive dissonance.
Having the entire Republican party treat him as if he was a "child molesting rapist" pretty much destroyed his GOTV. Alabama's other senator, Richard Shelby, got on television and urged everyone to either write in someone else's name, or vote for Doug Jones.
And you think Moore was the problem? He won election in 2012 with over 1 million votes!
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