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2018 Congressional/Senate Election Results Thread
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This makes the New England Delegation 100% Democrat aside from Collins, right?
*Edit*
It does, unless you want to quibble about Independents.
Ah, I understand we've finally discovered the "double taxation" that a conservative can love.
New York and New Jersey aren't New England, they're Mid-Atlantic along with Pennsylvania.
And it does. Collins is the sole Republican.
Pema Levy is a reporter with Mother Jones and if you're interested in what's going on in Florida she's a veritable font of election information.
New York...like the city maybe but that really does not apply to most (by area) of the state. Though I feel like it doesn't apply to most of Pennsylvania either really. That really feels like a regional label slapped on there by people not of the region.
It does not include New York in any fashion. This isn't something people outside the area decided, it's the local and long time historic definition.
I am confident that several employees in the Census Bureau are from New York, and have at least heard tell about Upstate.
So is this still the initial count, with the machine (and maybe hand) one coming later, margins permitting?
To be clear I'm not arguing that New York is part of New England, I'm saying calling it Mid-Atlantic is not a thing that locals would do, at least not upstate.
You are of course technically correct. We should always use what government officials label a region as instead of what the residents self-identify as and ignore any protestations to the contrary.
Let's drop this please
No, Broward finished the recount, but Palm Beach missed the deadline.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-broward-palm-first-recount-20181115-story.html
That means PB's machine recount tally is discarded, and the initial count holds, no idea what that means for a hand recount of the races are still within a quarter percent. Hopefully some news types will save me having to parse the statute.
Didn't a Judge give them until the 20th?
From that article it says So they did what? They turned in numbers that were incomplete but are going to keep working on it? That is a shitty definition of "meeting the deadline"
New England sweeps out all Rs House reps once again.
Susan Collins is now the only New England Republican in either house.
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Since I got dunked on NY is now 20-5 with two up in the air (Collins-R) and (Tenney-R) are each within about 1% (leading and trailing respectively). NJ went to 11-1. So the states pretty universally considered Northeastern will be (if my math is right) 52-6 with 2 up in the air. Polarization society is polarized.
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It's been updated since your post, now says:
Also now answers my hand count question:
But also notes that Nelson lost 1200 votes.
And I guess Nelson is suing to get all the ballots hand counted?
So we seem to be even further from a resolution here.
Marc Elias is Nelson's recount lawyer
Voters have more time if their ballots were not counted due to "signature mismatch"
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52-47 is better than 53-47
*shrug*
Very true, I didn't think of it that way.
http://amp.bradenton.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article221700880.html
Looks like they have until Sunday to submit the final tally of hand counted votes, and the winner will be certified on Tuesday. For Senator and Ag Commissioner.
Still not likely to go our way, but at least it will be more accurate. Probably.
First test of the statutory procedure with an added dash of court ordered deviations.
I'm sure it will go swimmingly.
Hand counting that many votes in that short of a time frame?
The "manual recount" just calls for manual inspection of over/under votes, then adds them.
However, Nelson is apparently requesting what you said; which is not even a thing in the statute, IIRC.
So, if Palm Beach or Broward didn't finish counting, they were supposed to submit their original unofficial count...
Then continue counting?
That gives me hope. Or am I misreading that?
I mean, when has a vote recount ever run into trouble in Florida?
The paper tried to claim that the the signature issue has to deal with people with bad penmanship and I thought that was the horse shittiest of horse shit. Like I want to say 80% of people have illegible signature. This is purely disenfranchisement with a bullshit fig leaf.
Bullshit.
pleasepaypreacher.net
Exactly, and like signatures that match too nicely are actually more likely forged versus the general drift of most peoples hand written signature.
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I broke my hand a few years ago and my signature isn’t in the same star system as it is when I registered. I don’t even try anymore. It’s now just something that looks like an ‘A’ if you cross your eyes with a scribble afterwards.
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