The Republican Party is demanding that Mississippi election officials “separate and preserve” all provisional ballots cast in the midterms — the first step in a likely bid to throw out votes in the state’s extremely close U.S. Senate race*.
The vote count is ongoing, and Democrat Scott Colom currently leads Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith ® by several hundred votes, with certification due by Nov. 13. His victory would represent a significant upset in the state’s Republican-dominated politics.
The Republican Party is demanding that Mississippi election officials “separate and preserve” all provisional ballots cast in the midterms
Isn’t this a standard thing? These haven’t been counted yet, but will be if they can be validated or something.
Would be funny if more of their own votes got thrown out because of this process and the Dem candidate’s lead increased.
I think they wouldn’t be surprised, but it’s worth a shot because if they do nothing, they lose; if they do this, they might lose or might win, so of course they’ll try. I’d want Dems trying any ethical challenges were it the other way.
Dem’s like 1700 in the lead right already. I think it’s pretty much a done deal.
large numbers of Mississippians were forced to vote by affidavit ballot after Secretary of State Michael Watson ® flagged 230,000 voter registrations as “inactive.”
and if the “inactives” were targetted, then provisional/affidavit votes would just boost that lead.
They deserve a progressive person who cares. The GRAY OLD PEDOS had their shot.
Just wait until you hear about the Epstein files! Surrounded by old gray Democrat pedophiles.
It’s awful!
Search “Who was on lolita express epstein files” to start and go from there.
Oh you again, with this same bullshit. Like we said last time, no one is defending Democrats! Why do you think that’s some “got ya”? The Republicans are the ones preventing things from being released though.
Anyone seeing this, remember that you can tag users. This guy is constantly a Republican troll.
This is the funniest part of the whole discourse. People act like we can’t bring charges against Republicans because then we’d have to also charge Democrats. I really feel like most people in the world don’t really care who is charged, as long as they are finally brought to justice. There are some people who don’t want their “side” to face justice. Those people are wrong. I don’t care if you were in charge of the biggest and best charity organization. If you’ve done wrong like the people in the Epstein files, you deserve all the punishment.
The only people who don’t want their side to face justice are on the side of pedos. Their side, irrespective of the political spectrum is the side of pedos.
Great, let’s lock them up too! EVERYONE in the Epstein files needs their comeuppance!
But hey buddy…guess who’s name is in there THE MOST? 🤣
Happy 5th of November!
Remember, remember!
Did they stop counting them? The number seems to be holding steady at 96%
Provisional ballots are created when a voter shows up at the poll, but there’s some kind of problem with their registration that prevents them from voting. On election day the provisional ballots are tossed in a metaphorical pile labelled “in case of close race, open me.”
In most elections, the margin of victory is high enough that no one needs to open the provisional ballots or check their eligibility.
But in this race, it is close enough, so they now need to check whether each individual provisional vote is really eligible to vote or not. This is called “chase and cure,” and it usually involves tracking down and talking to the voters and others (the chase) and getting whatever documentation is missing to establish the eligibility (the cure).
The Republican party doesn’t want these ballots to be cured or counted, because they expect the votes inside to skew heavily Democratic. So they will oppose. Partly because they caused a bunch of the provisional ballots by kicking people off the rolls wrongly.
However, I think this is a pretty good position for Colom, if he has an 1,800 lead or so, and he expects any added votes to skew to him.
So, let me get this straight: the Republican candidate is currently behind and wants them to stop counting?
Reminds me of 2020 election when in some states, Trump was urging the election officials to stop counting ballots, meanwhile urging other states to keep count every ballot.
Self awareness is not his strong suit. That was stop counting in Michigan but keep counting in AZ. Fucking putz.
I actually didn’t doubt they have lawyers standing by with a completely procedurally unsound emergency brief to the Supreme Court to demand they stop counting, ready to file at any moment Colom gets behind in the count.
I think the whole strategy is to win the provisional ballot fight and get the secretary of state to trigger a recount on the main ballots and hope that recount goes really well for them and shutdown any further recounting after that and then somehow keep the provisionals from ever being counted.
I think it’s a lot of hopium.
They expect them to be heavily Democratic because the voter purge they performed to suppress votes targeted likely Democratic voters.
The vote count is ongoing,
It’s been at that same percentage for over a day. I should have mentioned that part.
It’s Mississippi, they’re slow counters.
I heard an Alabamian say “Thank God for Mississippi, or we’d be forty-tenth in education.”
Do you know WHY it takes Mississippi this long to count the votes?
One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi…
I’m impressed they made it to 96 honestly
Maybe some red hat observer inspecting each counted?
Aaaaand here we go folks! Honestly took them longer than I expected to start the fash response. Oh this is gonna be such a fun fucking time…
It’s the only race close enough to even try lol let’s not let them have it!
There are several congressional races that are also this close
The comical thing is that 49 states have written laws pertaining to automatically doing a recount if the numbers are this close. Kind of like Florida did in 2000. Mississippi is that 1 of 50 states that does not have one.
So without proven fraud, I can’t see why a judge would give a warrant to recount them
My co-worker claimed that Mississippi has no legal path to even authorize a recount. Do you know if that’s true? Sometimes her facts are… Off.
Alaska has been showing a ~600 vote difference since this morning. Only 74% counted, but still, that’s pretty dang close!
Alaska will take a very long time, I suspect. Ranked choice voting is better, but requires effectively a full count before redistributing losing-candidate votes.
I’ve read that this is also compounded by how remote some of the communities in Alaska are - it simply takes longer to collect up all the votes to begin with.
As one reporter put it, a four square mile area in Anchorage has the same population as an area the size of Germany. Anchorage isn’t a huge city.
The state is also huge and rural. It’s something like 20% the size of the lower 48, full of mountains and forests. I assume that a lot of that information is transmitted, but I also assume that there is a lot of snail mail that takes its time.
Predictable as always
Called it like a week ago.
I’m not psychic, they just do this every election. It’s a great way to waste millions of dollars.
“Wut’s the number after, uh, four, six, six, uh, sevun, sevun, five?”
-receives blank stares
When they run out of options, exploitations, and false reality, they will openly attempt to cheat
