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Post by aj2hall on Nov 12, 2022 23:12:46 GMT
*snort* Maricopa county’s social media person has had enough of the nonsense. I was just coming to post this. The tweet to candidates should be obvious. Even kindergarteners have a basic grasp on how elections work. Love these responses!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 12, 2022 23:26:01 GMT
Maga maga maga you just said it yourself.... To do all your bidding takes very much time!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 12, 2022 23:28:37 GMT
Laxalt bracing for disappointment in Arizona.. The campaign for the GOP Senate nominee in Nevada is dour as prognosticators expect that the race will imminently be called for Democratic Party incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto. "They say the mood has changed inside the Adam Laxalt campaign, saying that the mood is 'awful' that they are 'shocked' and depressed and that various fractions of the Republican Party are pointing their fingers, saying that their challenger, Democratic incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto could actually take the lead," Flores reported. www.rawstory.com/laxalt-nevada/Isn’t Laxalt ahead right now? I’m sad that Boebert has made a comeback. Yes last I saw he was ahead, but as the article says they, he, are anticipating that Masto will get a larger percentage of the coming votes, therefore she may, probably will, take the lead.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 13, 2022 0:54:45 GMT
I know no one really cares about Washington State, but we have Joe Kent running for our House seat (in the actual district I live in) and he is every bit as delusional and deplorable and conspiracy theory nutty and Trump lovey as MTG. It is a very close race and they haven’t released any new numbers since less then an hour after the polls officially closed last night. What is taking so dang long? This would be a terrible blow for my area if he wins. It was pretty shocking the Democratic incumbent didn’t even end up on the ballot, so fingers crossed the new Democrat somehow wins. This is absolutely not a seat anyone with any sense should want flipped. Well....Kent just lost Dis 3 Winner Dem woman
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 13, 2022 2:17:10 GMT
MSNBC Projects Masto win by 5,000+
Gives Democrats 50 in Senate!!
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Post by SAHM wannabe on Nov 13, 2022 2:26:07 GMT
Yesssss!!!!!
I’m doing a crazy happy dance in Las Vegas!!!
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Post by lisae on Nov 13, 2022 2:45:03 GMT
Yesssss!!!!! I’m doing a crazy happy dance in Las Vegas!!! Are you visiting or a resident? If the latter, a big Thank you! to you as a voter. I'm so glad we don't have to rely on Georgia to go for Democrats. Of course I think Walker in the Senate would be a disaster so it is still important but I hated to think we had to wait until December to know how this would go. It might be December before we know about the House. Boy those results are coming in slowly.
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Post by SAHM wannabe on Nov 13, 2022 3:21:28 GMT
Yesssss!!!!! I’m doing a crazy happy dance in Las Vegas!!! Are you visiting or a resident? If the latter, a big Thank you! to you as a voter. I'm so glad we don't have to rely on Georgia to go for Democrats. Of course I think Walker in the Senate would be a disaster so it is still important but I hated to think we had to wait until December to know how this would go. It might be December before we know about the House. Boy those results are coming in slowly. I'm a resident! Thank you for your kind words. What I'm especially proud of are my DS19 and DD18 who both voted in their first election! My DS persuaded several of his friends to also get out and vote for their first elections. My DD didn't try to persuade others, but I'm so happy she participated. I used to drag my children out to rallies from a very young age. I have pictures of the three of us at an Obama rally when he was running for his first term. Four years later, I have pictures of the three of us at a rally when he was campaigning for his second term. Obama was here about ten days ago campaigning with Catherine Cortez-Masto. I had tickets to see Elton John that night, so I wasn't able to go to the rally. Being a swing state means we get a lot of big names out here from both sides. I'm relieved that Cortez-Masto is the projected winner, but a win in Georgia is still very important since Manchin and Sinema are "sometimes" on the side of Democrats. I'm a proud Democrat and will continue to support candidates across the country with my small, but consistent, grassroots donations of time, money, and voice. The arc of the moral universe continues to bend toward justice.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 13, 2022 4:39:32 GMT
Somebody somewhere said we should thank Alito...
They may well have been correct. I am not sure we would have had this outcome without his draconian decision in Roe..
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Let us not forget the deep motivation/impact many received watching the House Select Hearings!
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Post by hop2 on Nov 13, 2022 12:32:00 GMT
Somebody somewhere said we should thank Alito... They may well have been correct. I am not sure we would have had this outcome without his draconian decision in Roe.. *** Let us not forget the deep motivation/impact many received watching the House Select Hearings! the SC decision and the resulting chaos in a few states definitely played into this election. I was kinda shocked that they didn’t delay the decision. I know people my kids age started seeing themselves having less freedoms than their parents and it freaked them out. Between the lies that Roe was ‘settled law’ to the big election lie they found a lot less to trust. Be wary though, the youngsters don’t trust democrats either you just were the lesser problem this time.
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Post by Merge on Nov 13, 2022 12:36:00 GMT
Christopher Bouzy is a good follow on Twitter. He’s a data guy who created Bot Sentinel and he called the outcome of this election cycle much more accurately than the polling entities.
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Post by lisae on Nov 13, 2022 13:16:39 GMT
I'm relieved that Cortez-Masto is the projected winner, but a win in Georgia is still very important since Manchin and Sinema are "sometimes" on the side of Democrats. Agreed. It looks like Lisa Murkowski will lose in Alaska. When the votes come in, they may have elected a Trump loving Republican over a moderate Republican.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 13, 2022 14:06:01 GMT
I'm relieved that Cortez-Masto is the projected winner, but a win in Georgia is still very important since Manchin and Sinema are "sometimes" on the side of Democrats. Agreed. It looks like Lisa Murkowski will lose in Alaska. When the votes come in, they may have elected a Trump loving Republican over a moderate Republican. Kind of surprising though. Alaska also just likely elected Peltola over Sarah Palin.
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Post by Merge on Nov 13, 2022 14:11:06 GMT
I'm relieved that Cortez-Masto is the projected winner, but a win in Georgia is still very important since Manchin and Sinema are "sometimes" on the side of Democrats. Agreed. It looks like Lisa Murkowski will lose in Alaska. When the votes come in, they may have elected a Trump loving Republican over a moderate Republican. I mean, yeah, but for all Murkowski is supposedly a moderate she voted reliably as Mitch told her to. I don’t see her as much of a loss.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 13, 2022 20:15:16 GMT
ABC is saying Republicans are 11 from taking House. Republicans will take the House easily. A few Republican seats have flipped, but many more Democrat seats have flipped than that. ETA - The Senate will be in Republican hands as well. Well, this post didn't age well. Republicans have not taken the House easily. They might still win, but not many more seats. At the moment, they've only flipped 6-8 more seats than the Democrats. Republicans are still 7 seats away from taking the House. And thankfully, the Senate is not in Republican hands. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-house.html
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 13, 2022 23:30:34 GMT
And thankfully, so far, no major or widespread problems with the elections. Maricopa County in Arizona voting has been an utter failure. 20% of voting locations had major tabulator problems. Hundreds of thousands of people came out to vote and many were told that they wouldn't be allowed to vote in person which is a direct violation of law. The woman in charge, the secretary of state, is on the ballot for governor. She refused all opportunities for an open debate with her opponent, and only provided enough ballots for the Republican primary to last the first hour of voting. This post was wrong and inaccurate at the time, even more so now, as more information has come to light. No one was told they wouldn't be allowed to vote. Republicans are in charge of elections in the county where there were problems with the printers. And only 17,000 ballots were affected, not hundreds of thousands. Voting was not a failure just because Republicans lost. Every vote is being counted. The problems with not enough ballots for the primary also happened in a county where Republicans are in charge of elections. Furthermore, it wasn't Katie Hobbs's responsibility to accurately anticipate the number of ballots, it was the job of Republicans in charge of elections for the county. www.npr.org/2022/08/08/1116394618/arizona-pinal-county-election-woesPinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer, a Republican, had a much simpler explanation for the "human error" that left some voters stranded in line or disenfranchised altogether.
"We just, we didn't order enough ballots. It was always a guess," Volkmer told reporters the day after the election. "And we didn't guess on the side of making sure we had plenty of ballots, and that's the mistake that the county made."
Volkmer estimated that hundreds of voters were affected, as roughly 2.5% of the county's various ballot styles were impacted by the shortage. The county printed about 900 different styles of ballots for the primary. (Different ballots are printed to reflect the unique races an individual may vote for, depending on where they live.) Some voters likely didn't cast a ballot because of that error, though Volkmer defended the county's response as making the best of a bad situation.
"We did everything we could," he said. "We offered them the ability to wait as long as they were capable of waiting. Some people chose not to wait, some people chose to leave and come back, some people chose to leave and not come back. We can't control that."
County officials promised changes would be made. A day later, they delivered in one respect by firing elections director David Frisk, who had only just been hired for the job in March. www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/officials-counting-all-ballots-after-voting-malfunction-in-arizonaAbout 17,000 ballots in Maricopa County, or about 7 percent of the 275,000 dropped off Tuesday, were affected, officials said. There are about 4.5 million people in the county, which includes Phoenix, and about 2.4 million registered voters. More than 80 percent vote early, most by mail. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/11/13/arizona-voting-problems-kari-lake-katie-hobbs/PHOENIX — The voting locations that experienced problems on Election Day in Maricopa County, home to more than half of Arizona’s voters, do not skew overwhelmingly Republican, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
The finding undercuts claims by some Republicans — most notably Kari Lake, the GOP nominee for governor, and former president Donald Trump — that GOP areas in the county were disproportionately affected by the problems, which involved a mishap with printers.
Starting early on Tuesday, printers at 70 of the county’s 223 polling sites produced ballots with ink that was too light to be read by vote-counting machines, which caused ballots to be rejected. That forced voters to wait in line, travel to another location or deposit their ballots in secure boxes that were transferred to downtown Phoenix and counted there. County officials say no one was denied the right to vote.
The Post identified the precincts of affected voting locations using data provided by Maricopa County election officials and then examined the voter registration breakdown within each precinct using data from L2, an election data provider.
The analysis found that the proportion of registered Republicans in affected precincts, about 37 percent, is virtually the same as the share of registered Republicans across the county, which stands at 35 percent.
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Post by Merge on Nov 13, 2022 23:47:08 GMT
Maricopa County in Arizona voting has been an utter failure. 20% of voting locations had major tabulator problems. Hundreds of thousands of people came out to vote and many were told that they wouldn't be allowed to vote in person which is a direct violation of law. The woman in charge, the secretary of state, is on the ballot for governor. She refused all opportunities for an open debate with her opponent, and only provided enough ballots for the Republican primary to last the first hour of voting. This post was wrong and inaccurate at the time, even more so now, as more information has come to light. No one was told they wouldn't be allowed to vote. Republicans are in charge of elections in the county where there were problems with the printers. And only 17,000 ballots were affected, not hundreds of thousands. Voting was not a failure just because Republicans lost. Every vote is being counted. The problems with not enough ballots for the primary also happened in a county where Republicans are in charge of elections. Furthermore, it wasn't Katie Hobbs's responsibility to accurately anticipate the number of ballots, it was the job of Republicans in charge of elections for the county. www.npr.org/2022/08/08/1116394618/arizona-pinal-county-election-woesPinal County Attorney Kent Volkmer, a Republican, had a much simpler explanation for the "human error" that left some voters stranded in line or disenfranchised altogether.
"We just, we didn't order enough ballots. It was always a guess," Volkmer told reporters the day after the election. "And we didn't guess on the side of making sure we had plenty of ballots, and that's the mistake that the county made."
Volkmer estimated that hundreds of voters were affected, as roughly 2.5% of the county's various ballot styles were impacted by the shortage. The county printed about 900 different styles of ballots for the primary. (Different ballots are printed to reflect the unique races an individual may vote for, depending on where they live.) Some voters likely didn't cast a ballot because of that error, though Volkmer defended the county's response as making the best of a bad situation.
"We did everything we could," he said. "We offered them the ability to wait as long as they were capable of waiting. Some people chose not to wait, some people chose to leave and come back, some people chose to leave and not come back. We can't control that."
County officials promised changes would be made. A day later, they delivered in one respect by firing elections director David Frisk, who had only just been hired for the job in March. www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/officials-counting-all-ballots-after-voting-malfunction-in-arizonaAbout 17,000 ballots in Maricopa County, or about 7 percent of the 275,000 dropped off Tuesday, were affected, officials said. There are about 4.5 million people in the county, which includes Phoenix, and about 2.4 million registered voters. More than 80 percent vote early, most by mail. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/11/13/arizona-voting-problems-kari-lake-katie-hobbs/PHOENIX — The voting locations that experienced problems on Election Day in Maricopa County, home to more than half of Arizona’s voters, do not skew overwhelmingly Republican, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
The finding undercuts claims by some Republicans — most notably Kari Lake, the GOP nominee for governor, and former president Donald Trump — that GOP areas in the county were disproportionately affected by the problems, which involved a mishap with printers.
Starting early on Tuesday, printers at 70 of the county’s 223 polling sites produced ballots with ink that was too light to be read by vote-counting machines, which caused ballots to be rejected. That forced voters to wait in line, travel to another location or deposit their ballots in secure boxes that were transferred to downtown Phoenix and counted there. County officials say no one was denied the right to vote.
The Post identified the precincts of affected voting locations using data provided by Maricopa County election officials and then examined the voter registration breakdown within each precinct using data from L2, an election data provider.
The analysis found that the proportion of registered Republicans in affected precincts, about 37 percent, is virtually the same as the share of registered Republicans across the county, which stands at 35 percent.Thousand of voters in Harris County, TX, were unable to vote because the locations ran out of the special paper they need for the ballot machines. It's a mystery as to how that happened. In response, a county judge ruled that affected polling stations could stay open an hour later, until 8 PM, and voters could get in line until that time. The state appealed and the state supreme court reversed the ruling. Votes cast by voters in line after 7 PM were thrown out. We don't know yet how many votes were discarded, and we'll never know how many voters left polls in frustration and never returned, but in blue Harris county, it's likely that this random and unprecedented paper shortage cost Beto and other statewide Democratic candidates a significant number of votes. You know what no one here is doing? Crying about a fraudulent election. Part of me wonders why, because it's not clear why all these voting locations suddenly had too little paper or why the all-Republican state supreme court overturned the local judge's ruling, but another part of me wants to tell the GOP to shut it about Maricopa County unless they're also willing to make a stink about the irregularities in much larger Harris County.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2022 3:45:20 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 14, 2022 4:16:02 GMT
Mergewow... Here if you are already in line when the polls close you are still allowed to vote. They move the people into the building and lock the doors so more cannot get into line...
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Post by Merge on Nov 14, 2022 4:20:07 GMT
Mergewow... Here if you are already in line when the polls close you are still allowed to vote. They move the people into the building and lock the doors so more cannot get into line... Yes, that is the case here as well. A county judge allowed certain locations to extend the “open door” times an additional hour because of the difficulties they’d had. And then the state SC disallowed it. None of this makes national news because the Republicans don’t care about voting issues when they benefit from them.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 14, 2022 4:36:25 GMT
I am just so disgusted with their behavior.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2022 4:45:18 GMT
Merge wow... Here if you are already in line when the polls close you are still allowed to vote. They move the people into the building and lock the doors so more cannot get into line... Yes, that is the case here as well. A county judge allowed certain locations to extend the “open door” times an additional hour because of the difficulties they’d had. And then the state SC disallowed it. None of this makes national news because the Republicans don’t care about voting issues when they benefit from them. Texas apparently also has problems with ballots getting rejected, after Republicans passed a bill creating new ID requirements. Although it sounds like fewer ballots were rejected compared to the primary in the spring. www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134435571/texas-mail-ballot-rejections-general-electionAnd regrettably, your attorney general who sucessfully challenged the longer voting hours in court was re-elected. And none of the major online news organizations covered the story.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 14, 2022 11:55:51 GMT
Maybe less rejections are caused by less people attempting to vote in Texas. How many times can a person be rejected before they stop trying? Over and over again...
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Post by Merge on Nov 14, 2022 15:40:59 GMT
Yes, that is the case here as well. A county judge allowed certain locations to extend the “open door” times an additional hour because of the difficulties they’d had. And then the state SC disallowed it. None of this makes national news because the Republicans don’t care about voting issues when they benefit from them. Texas apparently also has problems with ballots getting rejected, after Republicans passed a bill creating new ID requirements. Although it sounds like fewer ballots were rejected compared to the primary in the spring. www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134435571/texas-mail-ballot-rejections-general-electionAnd regrettably, your attorney general who sucessfully challenged the longer voting hours in court was re-elected. And none of the major online news organizations covered the story. Yes. And this is why I get frustrated when people in other states tell me we just need to "vote harder." A lot of people here have come to the perhaps correct conclusion that our GOP will do what the guy in Wisconsin threatened - to never allow a statewide Democrat to be elected again. We had issues back in March when the state suddenly ran out of the paper needed to print voter registration forms. Could we move into the 21st century and allow online voter registration? Heck no! Too much potential for "fraud," they say. We had issues in the spring runoff, as you mention, with ballots rejected at a ridiculously high rate because of confusing new signature and ID requirements. It required major outreach from Democrats to reach those voters and help them get the ballots corrected. God knows the state wasn't going to do anything about it. We had lots of people who qualified for mail-in or absentee ballots, requested them appropriately and in a timely manner, and never received them. Our new voting machines are buggy and prone to error, and are very difficult for some older and disabled people to use. And then we somehow didn't have enough paper at many locations in Harris County this time. It's not that the county had a shortage of paper; it's that somehow the paper that was delivered across the county based on past numbers wasn't enough. It's quite the mystery as voter turnout was not higher than in the last midterm election. The county is run by Democrats. They didn't withhold paper - they have no interest in suppressing votes in our county. Something happened to it after it was delivered. It's "being investigated." Nothing will come of it. Voters here are fed up and feel disenfranchised and we wonder why turnout is low. Voting rights legislation HAS to be part of Biden's next two years in office.
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Post by casii on Nov 14, 2022 15:56:09 GMT
How many seats are still left to be decided?
I know I'm watching Katie Porter and Lauren Boebert. You can bet I'm cheering on Porter and hoping she gets to use her white board for the next 2 years! I heard there are still a few thousand votes to count for the Boebert vs Frisch race.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2022 18:51:21 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 14, 2022 19:55:00 GMT
Horror show projected.... To dump McCarthy...Remember the speaker does NOT have to be an elected member of the House. House GOP presses toward leadership elections despite post-midterm disarray Conservative opponents of Kevin McCarthy are privately weighing a two-step plan designed to bar him from the speakership next year. Conservatives want Tuesday’s scheduled leadership elections postponed until control of the House is certain. If McCarthy doesn’t agree, they plan to nominate Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) as an internal pick for speaker to demonstrate that the Californian doesn’t have the 218 GOP votes he needs when the full chamber votes on Jan. 3, according to a Republican with knowledge of the plan who spoke candidly on condition of anonymity. Depending on how that first step plays out, more conservatives would then embrace an alternative pick to put forward as a consensus candidate, added this Republican — who said some signs are pointing to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as the Freedom Caucus’ consensus choice. CNN first reported the prospect that Biggs would be a symbolic alternative in step one of the plan. It’s a risky gambit that’s clearly still in flux as the conference churns toward a leadership election that conservatives want to delay, a sentiment aired by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Twitter on Sunday night. And it’s not clear how much McCarthy’s rival-turned-ally Jordan knows about the right flank’s plan, although though outside supporters aren’t hiding their views on the matter.www.politico.com/news/2022/11/14/house-gop-leadership-elections-2022-elections-00066664
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Post by hopemax on Nov 14, 2022 21:37:57 GMT
I'm relieved that Cortez-Masto is the projected winner, but a win in Georgia is still very important since Manchin and Sinema are "sometimes" on the side of Democrats. Agreed. It looks like Lisa Murkowski will lose in Alaska. When the votes come in, they may have elected a Trump loving Republican over a moderate Republican. Why do you say that? I know she is currently 2nd, but Alaska has ranked choice voting now in the event no candidate breaks 50%. They rerun the ballots on 11/23, I think. The voters for the Democrat who finished 3rd, indicated they were voting for Murkowski as their 2nd choice over the MAGA candidate. Everything I've seen says that she is expected to win after they rerun.
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Post by aj2hall on Nov 14, 2022 22:27:24 GMT
Agreed. It looks like Lisa Murkowski will lose in Alaska. When the votes come in, they may have elected a Trump loving Republican over a moderate Republican. Why do you say that? I know she is currently 2nd, but Alaska has ranked choice voting now in the event no candidate breaks 50%. They rerun the ballots on 11/23, I think. The voters for the Democrat who finished 3rd, indicated they were voting for Murkowski as their 2nd choice over the MAGA candidate. Everything I've seen says that she is expected to win after they rerun. I don't think we're going to know the results until Nov 23, at the earliest. www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/2022/alaska/?itid=lk_interstitial_enhanced-template_alaskaSen. Lisa Murkowski (R) is one of four contenders who emerged from the state’s all-party primary in August. Her closest challenger is Kelly Tshibaka (R), a former commissioner in the Alaska Department of Administration who has Donald Trump’s nod. Alaska is for the first time using ranked-choice voting, which means we’re unlikely to know the results on Nov. 8.
Ranked-choice voting, along with an all-party primary, is thought to favor Murkowski, who has bucked the GOP on several occasions and voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The below results are first choice votes only. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first choice votes, the state will proceed with calculating the ranked choice results. Additional rounds of counting will not be released until Nov. 23.
Tshibaka (R) is leading. An estimated 80.1 percent of votes have been counted. Votes received and percentages of total vote Candidate Votes Pct. Kelly Tshibaka GOP 94,138 44.2 Lisa Murkowski *incumbentGOP 91,205 42.8 Patricia Chesbro. DEM 20,265 9.5
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Post by lisae on Nov 14, 2022 23:01:03 GMT
Agreed. It looks like Lisa Murkowski will lose in Alaska. When the votes come in, they may have elected a Trump loving Republican over a moderate Republican. Why do you say that? I know she is currently 2nd, but Alaska has ranked choice voting now in the event no candidate breaks 50%. They rerun the ballots on 11/23, I think. The voters for the Democrat who finished 3rd, indicated they were voting for Murkowski as their 2nd choice over the MAGA candidate. Everything I've seen says that she is expected to win after they rerun. I didn't have the whole picture. Thank you for the details. I hope she does win. She should not be punished for voting to impeach Trump and we shouldn't be stuck with one of his picks in the Senate.
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