Live Alabama Election Results: Roy Moore and Doug Jones Compete for Senate Seat

New York Times ^ | December 12, 2017 | MATTHEW BLOCH, NATE COHN, JOSH KATZ and JASMINE LEE

[House Atreides]

Alabama votes on Tuesday in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, now the attorney general. The last polls close at 8 p.m. Eastern. Strong support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican, is expected in rural, mostly white parts of the state and in its northern half. The Democrat, Doug Jones, aims to create a lead in the urban counties that include Birmingham and Montgomery, and across a band of largely black counties.

One critical battleground is a trio of smaller, whiter cities: Mobile, Tuscaloosa and Huntsville. Mr. Moore won a hard race in 2012 by keeping things close there. Mr. Jones hopes to win the cities by a convincing margin.

[SoFloFreeper]

NY Times: Jones has a 66% chance of winning.

Not good.

[lodi90]

Says 66% for Jones winning now. What a roller coaster. LOL.

[Blogger]

66% now.

[heights]

“When it’s over, Moore will be lucky to win by 3%.”

Thank you for your concern NEXT

[pollywog]

lolol

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

COUNTED SO FAR:  30%
ROY MOORE   168,243	52.0%
DOUG JONES  151,114	46.7%

[EdnaMode]

Glad you found it. :D

[RedMonqey]

About 314,000 votes have been counted already. Mr. Moore leads in that count by 4.5 points.

Go Moore!

Dilly! Dilly!

[TomGuy]

NYT results

		Votes	Rounded %
Moore	Rep	168,243	52
Jones	Dem	151,114	47

30% reporting (677 of 2,220 precincts)

[Grampa Dave]

Same feelings about the NY Slimes!

[Pinkbell]

The NY Times odds things was right on election night.

[damper99]

They’re looking at trends in red/blue areas vs number of votes outstanding. Moore probably in trouble.

[Terry Mross]

Black preachers we’re bussing them to the polls! Pure ignorance.

[DoughtyOne]

Makes you wonder doesn’t it.

They’re generally the ones with the automated systems.

Not sure why it takes them longer.

Perhaps you’re right.

[phoneman08]

Alabama is going rat I fear.

[tennmountainman]

Birmingham has not been counted.

[struggle]

All the urban counties are going to dump at the end. Like usual.

[Simon Foxx]

Not good is right. More votes left to count from big cities, and its not looking good there ...

[carton253]

Dilly! Dilly!

[EdnaMode]

I hope not.