DC Tom Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 17 minutes ago, Tiberius said: This is really crazy! https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/court-tosses-out-one-vote-victory-in-recount-that-had-briefly-ended-a-republican-majority-in-virginia/2017/12/20/ed979a70-e5b9-11e7-a65d-1ac0fd7f097e_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tidr=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.111b0e69802c What's crazy? They're following the standard Florida set in 2000 of determining the "intent of the voter" from questionable ballots. Thanks, Al! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Wait !............what was that noise ? EVERY VOTE COUNTS: Virginia Official Pulls Republican’s Name From Bowl to Pick Winner of Tied Race. And with that, the GOP holds its slender majority House of Delegates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 26 minutes ago, B-Man said: Wait !............what was that noise ? EVERY VOTE COUNTS: Virginia Official Pulls Republican’s Name From Bowl to Pick Winner of Tied Race. And with that, the GOP holds its slender majority House of Delegates. Yes, however, unlike in Florida in 2000, you are now not supposed to use voter intent when counting a ballot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 8 minutes ago, Koko78 said: Yes, however, unlike in Florida in 2000, you are now not supposed to use voter intent when counting a ballot. Which is precisely as it should be. It's the voter's responsibility to make their intent clear, NOT the counter's responsibility to divine it from an improperly completed ballot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 9 minutes ago, DC Tom said: Which is precisely as it should be. It's the voter's responsibility to make their intent clear, NOT the counter's responsibility to divine it from an improperly completed ballot. That is just is true now as it was back in 2000. The voter should have gotten another ballot when they realized they screwed up or the vote shouldn't count. I just find it funny how the Democrats are now suddenly against interpreting ballots when it goes against them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 25 minutes ago, Koko78 said: That is just is true now as it was back in 2000. The voter should have gotten another ballot when they realized they screwed up or the vote shouldn't count. I just find it funny how the Democrats are now suddenly against interpreting ballots when it goes against them. The ballots weren't wrong, it was aggresssive liberal media attacking old people after they voted asking them if they were "REALLY REALLY SURE THEY DIDN"T VOTE FOR NADER" and the old people were intimidated into saying that they now weren't quite sure how they voted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 4 minutes ago, row_33 said: The ballots weren't wrong, it was aggresssive liberal media attacking old people after they voted asking them if they were "REALLY REALLY SURE THEY DIDN"T VOTE FOR NADER" and the old people were intimidated into saying that they now weren't quite sure how they voted. I was referring more to the dimpled non-votes the democrats wanted to interpret the voter meaning as a vote for Gore, on top of the double-votes that they deemed were obviously supposed to go for Gore, but the old people were too stupid to get it correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 21 minutes ago, Koko78 said: I was referring more to the dimpled non-votes the democrats wanted to interpret the voter meaning as a vote for Gore, on top of the double-votes that they deemed were obviously supposed to go for Gore, but the old people were too stupid to get it correct. The bigger problem (i.e. more overarching) wasn't the "intent of the voter" standard, it was that Florida didn't have a standard, which, when it came down to a manual count, led to the ridiculous situation of the definition of "vote" being left up to the individual looking at the ballot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 7 minutes ago, DC Tom said: The bigger problem (i.e. more overarching) wasn't the "intent of the voter" standard, it was that Florida didn't have a standard, which, when it came down to a manual count, led to the ridiculous situation of the definition of "vote" being left up to the individual looking at the ballot. They should have counted the entire state, not just the 6 lowest income areas to try to weasel out a recount edge. At the time I thought the Dems would take the battle easypeasy, underestimating the resolve of the GOP GOP supporters were owed this effort after James Baker didn't even get out of his hammock to help Papa Bush's reelection effort... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Just now, row_33 said: They should have counted the entire state, not just the 6 lowest income areas to try to weasel out a recount edge. At the time I thought the Dems would take the battle easypeasy, underestimating the resolve of the GOP GOP supporters were owed this effort after James Baker didn't even get out of his hammock to help Papa Bush's reelection effort... It's because of how US elections work. Voting is usually managed at the county level, so they're the ones that do the counting. I mean...yeah, it was underhanded cherry-picking to try to get the results they wanted. But it's tough to demand a state recount when the state's not in the least responsible for the counting (as Florida wasn't in 2000). Bottom line is that the whole situation was retarded...because Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 and because the Dems couldn’t organize a two car funeral procession let alone a serious recount Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 4 minutes ago, row_33 said: and because the Dems couldn’t organize a two car funeral procession let alone a serious recount which is why we should trust them to run the Health Care Industry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 Judge Arpaio's hat is in the ring! This is another part of the Blue Wave that could conceivably hit the country in November 2018. The people that have no business electing people after they put Trump in the WH might start picking other sub normal intelligence people to run in the elections. This is great! Democrats will probably pick up seats already, but if the movement towards having imbeciles lead their party continues that will be a blessing for Dems in races that might not ordinarily be competitive--see Alabama. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/01/10/morning-bits-write-about-it-fast-because-it-wont-last-long/?utm_term=.1ece9d5b79a1 Quote It should be easy for Dems to beat an ex-con. “The Democratic candidate in a race that represents one of the party’s best pick-up opportunities on the 2018 midterm map is Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. Arpaio’s entry into the race could be a boon for Arizona Democrats who will lean on Latino turnout in hopes of winning the Senate race.” Democrats have already shown a preference for having candidates that can think, articulate concepts and ideas on a level higher than a third grade reading level while the GOP seems to have this attachment for half wits, morons and morally suspect people. Let us pray this continues! <---Me praying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 6 minutes ago, Tiberius said: Judge Arpaio's hat is in the ring! This is another part of the Blue Wave that could conceivably hit the country in November 2018. The people that have no business electing people after they put Trump in the WH might start picking other sub normal intelligence people to run in the elections. This is great! Democrats will probably pick up seats already, but if the movement towards having imbeciles lead their party continues that will be a blessing for Dems in races that might not ordinarily be competitive--see Alabama. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/01/10/morning-bits-write-about-it-fast-because-it-wont-last-long/?utm_term=.1ece9d5b79a1 Democrats have already shown a preference for having candidates that can think, articulate concepts and ideas on a level higher than a third grade reading level while the GOP seems to have this attachment for half wits, morons and morally suspect people. Let us pray this continues! <---Me praying Look out! Guam is tipping over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 wow, Dems have won a few elections recently? oooooooooooooooooooooh.... that's totally unheard of, I thought one party won ALL THE TIME!!!! for years on end... be grateful you don't have a 3rd party that writes letters to Santa Claus and on occasion gets enough people to stupidly vote for them.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 Scumbag Issa is retiring, too. Will there be any elected Republicans left in California? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Thanks Trump! We might see a whole bunch of governors mansions flip this year. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/14/governor-races-2018-midterms-republicans-340218?lo=ap_d1 Democratic confidence has been building since the party’s sweeping wins last fall. At the DGA’s meeting in New Orleans last month, political director Corey Platt gave governors a presentation indicating that the organization is now targeting 17 GOP-held seats for pickup in 2018, according to slides from the presentation obtained by POLITICO. The growing optimism on the left is mirrored by a burgeoning Republican pessimism, according to a wide range of GOP operatives and lawmakers involved in this year’s races. Their concerns are legion: With the White House dominating the news across the country on a daily basis, pollsters are seeing signs of a prospective surge in Latino voters that could swamp Republican candidates in battleground states like Florida and Colorado, put New Mexico’s governor’s race even further out of reach and making Arizona’s competitive. The 2017 off-year election results in Virginia and New Jersey and the special Senate election in Alabama have also given GOP candidates and incumbents reason to believe they will face an energized Democratic base that could turn out in record numbers, matched by a backlash among highly educated white women whose votes are usually Republican. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albwan Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 11/8/2017 at 4:38 PM, OJABBA said: If it's in the NYT it must be true. "It's Happening!" lolololol ...this is all so amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted January 17, 2018 Author Share Posted January 17, 2018 Quote A Democrat’s victory in a special election to fill a vacant seat in Wisconsin’s state legislature is a “a wake up call for Republicans in Wisconsin,” Gov. Quote Scott Walker wrote on Twitter Tuesday night. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that Patty Schachtner, a Democrat, was victorious in Tuesday’s special election for Wisconsin’s 10th Senate district, a Republican-learning district in the Northwest part of the state along the Minnesota border. The seat had previously been filled by Sheila Harsdorf, who resigned last November after 17 years in office to join Walker’s administration as Wisconsin’s secretary of agriculture https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/17/scott-walker-wisconsin-patty-schachtner-win-343237 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 16 minutes ago, Tiberius said: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/17/scott-walker-wisconsin-patty-schachtner-win-343237 Great, they've got another legislator who will flee the state instead of showing up and doing her job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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