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Cameras at the vote counting facility in a Nevada county still counting midterm election votes stopped broadcasting overnight, officials said on Nov. 10. The livestream computer application that provides the feeds “lost connection with” the cameras at 11:24 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Bethany Drysdale, a spokesperson for Washoe County.All staff members left for the night about an hour before the issue and none returned until 7 a.m. on Thursday morning, county officials said.The connection was restored just before 8 a.m. on Nov. 10.The Washoe County security administrator was said to have reviewed security cameras at the building, which run...

Going into Tuesday’s election everyone was talking about a “Red Wave” of Republican victories in the U.S. House and Senate. And the GOP picking up 20 seats in the House and four in the Senate didn’t seem unreasonable based on the polling and historical trend data. But it didn’t turn out that way, even though it appears Republicans have gained the majority in the House by a few seats and could, based on the outcome of the Georgia run-off, to win a one seat majority in the Senate. But there was a strange phenomenon at work in the election –...

Republicans have flipped Oregon’s pivotal 5th District seat in Congress, with Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer defeating Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner in a race flooded with out-of-state GOP spending. That means Republicans will at least double their number of Oregon’s seats in the U.S. House, with Chavez-DeRemer, the former mayor of Happy Valley, joining Republican Cliff Bentz, who represents the heavily Republican 2nd District that covers most of eastern Oregon.

'Biden got what he wanted and they got played for fools,' tweeted one user Twitter users reacted to the news that a federal judge in Texas blocked President Biden’s student loan handout. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled that Biden’s executive action was unconstitutional because Congress didn’t approve the sweeping plan. In fact, the judge claimed it was one of the largest executive branch overreaches in the "history of the United States." Liberals on the platform expressed outrage over the ruling, while conservatives ridiculed Biden’s entire handout strategy as being a cynical ploy to garner Democratic votes for...

Two more eastern Oregon counties have reportedly voted in favor of the Greater Idaho movement. Its purpose is to convince state legislatures to move the Oregon-Idaho border, turning conservative counties of Oregon into counties of Idaho. In a Wednesday news release, the movement said it had seen victory in Morrow and Wheeler counties, clinching 60% and 58% of the votes as of that morning, respectively. ts website showed May election results in all three counties that voted on the issue had improved by 4 percentage points after election night due to the slow counting in the state's elections and the...

Maricopa County dropped another ballot dump last night favoring the Democrats. Bill Gates said in a press conference last night, “we have about 400 to 410,000 more to be counted. I told this group that we anticipated 90 to 99% of the ballots to be counted by Friday. That’s tomorrow, but I’m here to tell you that the goalposts have changed.” He also said they are expecting to count through the weekend. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer then said, “we received 292,000 early ballots that were dropped off on election day.” However, as The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday, Maricopa...

They’re becoming an endangered species — moderate Democrats in New York. Republican candidates rolled over veteran left-center Democratic legislators like bowling pins in Tuesday’s downstate races. They were virtually annihilated in southern Brooklyn. GOP candidate Lester Chang — who ran against bail reform and championed merit-based education and school choice — toppled 36-year veteran Assemblyman Peter Abbate in the 49th District Bensonhurst/Borough Park/Sunset Park. “I went door to door and asked voters, ‘Are you better off than you were two years ago?'” Chang said.

The corporate media is working overtime to hide the Republican establishment’s failures in the 2022 midterm elections –perpetuating a myth that Donald J. Trump dragged his endorsed candidates down. This is a complete lie, told in order to embolden GOP leaders in Washington D.C., and ignores the fact that in so many instances, this same “McLeadership” set MAGA candidates up for failure. In my situation, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) – led by Chairman Tom Emmer – backed one of my opponents in the primary. She finished in third place, with less than 30 percent of the total Republican...

The “red wave” political pundits have been predicting for months failed to materialize this past Tuesday. But what happened was not a “blue wave” either — rather, the 2022 election should be categorized as a “youth wave,” with near-historic numbers of young people turning out to vote, motivated not by party, but by the issues impacting them. Early data from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts (CIRCLE) suggests that 27 percent of people ages 18-29 cast a ballot in 2022, marking the second-highest youth turnout in a midterm election in the past three...

It is estimated that 100,000 people leave the state of Illinois every year. It is difficult to know exactly what this means, as people move in as well as move out, and many of the incoming are either illegal immigrants or illegal aliens. But one thing is certain: the hundred thousand who depart each year are workers, employers, taxpayers. The very people you need for not only a functioning economy but also a functioning republic. For an electoral process to work, for it to produce elected officials with the right mentality to run the government in a fashion conducive to...

The balance of political power in Pennsylvania has taken a left turn as the Republican-controlled state House lost at least 12 Republican seats in the Nov. 8 election and could lose more. Control of the chamber will remain undecided until at least next week because results in two races are too close to call. Democrat Mark Moffa, with 15,095 votes, has two votes more than Republican Joe Hogan’s 15,093 in District 142, Bucks County. Neither candidate is an incumbent; this is a new district due to redistricting. Those totals are not expected to change for days, Jim O’Malley, deputy director...

As late-breaking Midterm election results continue to roll in, it’s turning out to be more wins for Republicans John James declared the winner in his election for U.S. House in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District flipping that precious Democrat-held seat Republican. Decision Desk HQ projects John James ® wins election to the U.S. House in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District.D to R Flip.#DecisionMade: 3:46pm ESTFollow more results here: https://t.co/J7J00UR5CG pic.twitter.com/wBrUfGEW4J— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 9, 2022Juan Ciscomani also won in Arizona’s 6th Congressional District flipping that Democrat-held seat Republican:Decision Desk HQ projects Juan Ciscomani ® wins election to the U.S. House...

@KariLake: "One of the reasons that I will win is the voters in Arizona are tired of shoddy elections that are run by imbeciles. And that's going to change."

PHOENIX — Maricopa County officials revised a prediction that most ballots would be counted by Friday, saying a day before that deadline that widespread counting would continue into the weekend. County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday during a press conference that the original forecast of 95% to 99% of votes being counted by Friday wouldn’t happen due to the high total of ballots dropped off on Election Day. “I’m here to tell you the goalposts have changed,” Gates said.

With Conservatives point finger at Trump after GOP’s underwhelming election results: 'He's never been weaker' Many conservatives say Tuesday's election results show it's 'time to move on' from Trump. (Fox News'', November 9, 2022), as well as the Wall Street Journal - what do Freepers think?

My god, Texas, Florida, and other states have fair and sensible voting.

The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson and Ben Bergquam from Real America’s Voice were physically removed from the Maricopa County presser on Thursday afternoon. Maricopa County deputies removed them from the premises by escorting them outside of the fence – something that is noticeably absent on the US southern border! In October The Gateway Pundit reported that TGP correspondent Jordan Conradson was blocked from access to Maricopa County’s election-related events in a clear effort to silence this news organization and stop us from reporting on election discrepancies in Maricopa County. Earlier today Ben Bergquam was told to leave the county presser....

Boebert now 794 ahead.

Arizona Republican Kari Lake has good news for those who are closely watching the governor’s race and expecting new votes to come in for the America First candidate. “The truth of the matter is, and I just got these numbers, there are 384,000,” Lake said. “That’s a lot of votes. 384,000 votes that are mail in ballots. So these people received them a month ago, but they didn’t trust probably most of them dropping ’em off at a Dropbox or in the US Postal Service. So they filled them out, they went into the voting center on election day, and...

As the dust begins to settle from the midterm election mayhem, dozens of races remain unresolved, leaving lingering questions about how the balance of power will shake out in Washington, D.C. Democrats managed to snuff out a prophesied red wave, but Republicans remain within striking distance of capturing the House, while the fate of the Senate is up in the air. Dozens of House races, three Senate races, and four governor's races are outstanding, with most of the stragglers hailing from Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada, and Oregon. Here is a breakdown of the top unfinished midterm election races: Alaska House...