Lamb vs. Saccone Special Election PA18

NY Times ^ | March 13, 2018

[Pinkbell]

A thread to discuss the results.

I feel like Lamb has a lot of momentum, has run as a moderate, and has run a better campaign. I'll predict he'll win tonight (although I'd like to see Saccone win).

NYT does a good job with election results.

[KavMan]

I don't get these effing voters switching parties like this!!!

I would never ever vote for a Democrat ever!

[NutsOnYew]

Allegheny still has 5% to report. Waiting to find out how big the vote needs to be?

[PaulZe]

928 dif

[PaulZe]

928 dif

[over3Owithabrain]

Many many voters do not associate president with party. Just us diehards on the right and left do. Obama got elected twice but Dems lost House and Senate during his terms.

Trump will win PA in 2020 but it doesn’t mean all those Dems and Indies that vote for him will vote for other Republicans. They view him independently.

[EdnaMode]

Fingers crossed for Saccone!

[kabar]

How so?

[romanesq]

Ok, for those who must; yes, it truly is nailbiting time. Difference less than a thousand. The Libertarian candidate may be a spoiler.

Conor Lamb leads by 0.5 percentage points over Rick Saccone with 95 percent of precincts fully reporting.

Conor Lamb
Democrat
101,907 49.9%

Rick Saccone
Republican
100,979 49.5

Drew Miller
Libertarian
1,259 0.6

204,145 votes, 95% reporting (563 of 593 precincts)

[Hojczyk]

The democrat ran on the Trump agenda..might be better than the GOP guy...If the democrat wins it is only it January..he is not living in the new district..it is gone

[SpeedyInTexas]

Dave Wasserman: “UPDATE: Lamb (D) lead falls to 928 votes (0.4%) w/ 95% of precincts reporting. Nearly all Westmoreland in. The remaining Allegheny precincts lean Lamb, remaining Washington precincts lean Saccone.”

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The lame stream media evening news said that the dems spent three times as much money on this race for Lamb than the GOP spent on Saccone.

Meanwhile, the narrative is the GOP has all the money and the RATS have none. Sure.

Perhaps Mitt’s niece needs to be replaced as head of the RNC.

[janetjanet998]

yes but 98% of Westmoreland votes are in versus 95% for the more heavily populated Allegahey

[snarkytart]

ugh going in the wrong direction

[mrsmith]

Dave Wasserman‏Verified account @Redistrict · 40s41 seconds ago

UPDATE: Lamb (D) lead falls to 928 votes (0.4%) w/ 95% of precincts reporting. Nearly all Westmoreland in. The remaining Allegheny precincts lean Lamb, remaining Washington precincts lean Saccone.

[Republican Wildcat]

If only the talk radio circuit had paid attention to this race it would not be this close - even just a few hundred more conservatives going to the polls obviously would have made a difference. Barely any discussion of it at all. Compare that to the Georgia race last year.

[CarolinaReaganFan]

i’m looking at the nyt site.most remaining are allegeny co

[Yosemitest]

Watch the LIVE VOTE RETURNS.
IF THE LIVE VOTE COUNT TOTALS START GOING DOWN, YOU KNOW "FRACTION MAGIC" IS BEING USED !

DemocRATS will NEVER leave elections in the hands of the voters again, after Trump won !

STEALING ELECTIONS WITH COMPUTERS and Technology Cybercrimes, watch Bloomberg's Digital Defense November 3, 2016 (19:40).

To better understand "THE MASTER KEY" to stealing elections with computers, watch:

Fraction Magic - Detailed Vote Rigging Demonstration ( 24:40 )
Bev Harris
Published on Oct 31, 2016

I'LL NEVER TRUST ANOTHER COMPUTER COUNTED ELECTION AGAIN !

Election Fraud Against Moore Confirmed, Shills BTFO ( 24:29 )

Things have changed!

Bennie Smith, a Memphis computer programmer, discovered HOW this is done through a

" ... a GEMS tabulator—for Global Election Management System—which is a personal computer installed with Diebold software that sits in a windowless room in the county’s election headquarters.
The tabulator is the brains of the system.
It monitors the voting machines, sorts out which machines have delivered data and which haven’t, and tallies the results.
As voting machines check in and their votes are included in the official count, each machine’s status turns green on the GEMS master panel.
A red light means the upload has failed.

At the end of Memphis’s election night in October 2015, there was no indication from the technician running Shelby County’s GEMS tabulator that any voting machine hadn’t checked in or that any votes had gone missing, according to election commission e-mails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Yet as county technicians followed up on the evidence from Smith’s poll-tape photo, they discovered more votes that never made it into the election night count, all from precincts with large concentrations of black voters. ... "

Diebold Election Systems changed its name in 2006 to Premier Election Solutions.
Bloomberg's article titled How to Protect Against Election Day Hacking gives more proof of this by Memphis computer programmer Bennie Smith.

"... The method Smith used to catch the problem should be a playbook for any candidate, party or concerned citizen worried about the accurate tallying of their votes:
Smith snapped some pictures of printed voting tallies (known as poll tapes) at a high-turnout polling location and then compared the results there to the electronic tabulations.
This is a very good, if labor-intensive, way to check to ensure that votes are being counted correctly.

Smith has created a proof-of-concept program called Fraction Magic, showing how corrupt officials could tamper with GEMS to manipulate election outcomes.

[Art in Idaho]

I hope this isn't one of those, "If we added the Libertarian vote, we would have won” elections, I’ll . . . . . .

[Religion and Politics]

They are going to be horrible anyway. A close loss is a big win to them....

They are that way anyway. Let them take Silver again and claim victory. But we still need the win and it is so close it could go either way. It could be the Libertarian holds the winning difference.

[rdl6989]

I’d expect a recount.