Posted on 11/08/2020 10:23:09 PM PST by 11th_VA
Democrats are still barely clinging to their supermajorities in the Oregon Senate and House of Representatives, assuming the current ballot tally holds.
But in at least four races, the count is too close to be certain of the outcome.
Democrats lost a seat in the House, where if current results hold they will outnumber Republicans by as much as 60 to 37, while maintaining their current 30-18 hold in the Senate.
But Democrats are clinging to victory by an astonishingly small margin: Rep. Anna Williams (D-Hood River) leads in a rematch against former Rep. Jeff Helfrich, whom she defeated two years ago, by 94 votes (or less than a quarter of a percentage point). And Rep. Brad Witt (D-Clatskanie) leads his opponent, Republican Brian Stout, by 518 votes (or less than a percentage point of votes cast).
In the Senate, Democratic challenger Deb Patterson has a lead of less than 387 votes (or half a percentage point) over Sen. Denyc Boles (R-Salem).
And state Sen. Tim Knopp (R-Bend) is holding off a challenge by Democrat Eileen Kiely by under 2,000 votes, or less than 2 percentage points.
Before the election, there had been some speculation whether Democrats could increase their advantage in both chambers by enough seats to conduct business without the consent of Republicans.
An increase of two seats in each house would have given Democrats a three-quarters majority—enough to render worthless the Republican tactic of walking out to halt the passage of progressive legislation. (A quorum requires three-quarters of members be present under the Oregon Constitution.)
Instead, Democrats are now hoping to merely maintain their supermajority, which allows them to pass tax increases without bipartisan support.
The results make clear that Oregon, like the nation, has become polarized by geography.
(Excerpt) Read more at wweek.com ...
NUKE THESE LYING LIARS!!
Vote fraud should be punished by death. Slow, painful, horrifying death.
The Constitution prohibits death by cruel AND unusual means/methods.
So, we can be cruel OR unusual.
Suddenly, helicopter rides don’t seem so bad, n’est ce pas?
Democrats have it bad. These elections are hurting them. Ohhh nooo.
This headline is unintentionally funny. When you have an almost super majority you’re still pretty much in charge.
They better check their software.. They might have lost their super majority!!!
They need more legal dope...
It is troubling though. The phrase “polarized by geography” is a condition of balkanization. There are Free states and Slave states. The democrats are becoming triumphant in driving us back to antebellum conditions.
So?....Have the forensic statisticians looked into these local races yet? Something stinks.
Race was close and true errors sometimes do change such, but in the context of massive fraud in many states a small fraud with large payoff must be considered. GOP won Jasper overall, but one of the claims on Rat fraud was that Hammer/Scorecard was used in many Red areas to steal individually smallish, collectively significant vote counts where the results wouldn’t stick out as odd. This could fit that.
There is a similar situation going on in an important “close” election in my state.
Personally, I am sick of it. Republicans rarely fight it.
This is just a ruse to make it appear to be a fair election.
All of Oregon votes by mail; and the “super majority” Democrats get to count the votes.
Who do you think is going to win?
40% of Oregonians voted for Trump.
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