BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 11:30 AM

Borowitz has been hard-pressed to keep his satire one step ahead of the nonsense that Trump is up to. So many of the headlines he envisions simply write themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: Mossback
Date: 10 Nov 18 - 12:25 PM

Tampered election?

I think you mean corrupt Republican National Front voter suppression. Lets call a cesspit a cesspit.

Trump doesn't mis-state HE LIES!!!

Satire ain't gonna kill Trumpist Republican National Front fascism.(despite what Woody had on his guitar)

They say in Harlin County
There aren't no neutrals there
You either or a Union Man
Or a thug for L. G. Blair ( or Trump)
Which side are you on, which side are you on.

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Nov 18 - 02:13 PM

Once again, the state of Maine,
and its enormously over-acreaged,
sparsely-populated 2nd Congressional District.

If the links in previous posts did not make it clear:
the incumpent Representative is a Republican;
the challenger is a Democrat.
And in the actual general election one week ago,
neither one's votes reached a minimum of fifty percent.
Both had vote percentages in the upper 'forties.

Hence the recount.
and yet another bit of
US Congress House of Representatives party drama, to come.

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Nov 18 - 09:51 AM

Florida has found 25,000+ uncounted votes in Broward County FL alone that still haven't been counted. The counting of absentee military ballotes is Friday but an obscure rule says Thursday is the deadline.
Mail in ballots will also be late because of the FL postal shut down due to the mail bombs. So in short FL does not know how to vote fairly and uses machines that were made by Sequoia which is long dead and gone.
They found one guy who might know how to fix the antiques before the dubious deadline.

The number of votes in question is larger the the Bush v Gore fiasco.

But I am not surprised. Trump said the vote is fixed.
For Republicans.

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Nov 18 - 12:05 PM

Nothing is fixed in the 2nd Congressional District
in the state of Maine, that much is certain.

The New York Times reports the conclusion of the second approach to the voters' ballots in this month's general election. The incumbent Republican representative has lost to the Democratic candidate.

This is not going to quiet down soon. In the initial vote count, neither candidate had as much as fifty per cent of the total votes. One candidate, however, had more than the other.
The newly-established ranked-choice system, however, governed the second count. And the ranked-choice votes favored the candidate who had less votes.

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Nov 18 - 11:16 AM

Arizona has results, at last:
Democratic candidate Sinema has defeated
Republican candidate McSally.

So Arizona, formerly red for Republican,
is in the, shall we say, purple zone,
with blue muscling in on the red.

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Nov 18 - 04:32 PM

New dem house seats are now 37

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: Mossback
Date: 28 Nov 18 - 10:17 AM

Republican US senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has won her race for re-election in Mississippi, after a tense runoff during which she attracted national attention for a series of racially loaded remarks in a state with a notoriously complex racial history.


What's old is new again:

Here's to the people of Mississippi
Who say the folks up north, they just don't understand
And they tremble in their shadows at the thunder of the Klan
The sweating of their souls can't wash the blood from off their hands
For they smile and shrug their shoulders at the murder of a man
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of.

Here's to the government of Mississippi
In the swamp of their bureaucracy they're always bogging down
And criminals are posing as the mayors of the towns
And they hope that no one sees the sights and no one hears the sounds
And the speeches of the governor are the ravings of a clown
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of.

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Nov 18 - 08:33 PM

Good words describing a culture that explains away great hurt and hate in the southern lingo "It's just their way."

Subject: RE: BS: 2018 US elections: primary and otherwise
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 18 - 07:52 PM

November 16, 2018 was my last post about Maine's election for
US Representative for their second Congressional district.

And it has taken from then 'til now for the losing side to concede defeat.

Paul LePage, not a candidate but Maine's outgoing Republican governor,
will be replaced by Democratic candidate Janet Mills in 2019.

Republican congressional Representative Poliquin, in the 2nd district,
was fighting for a second term.
Maine had just made a new election law that
if the initial election was too close to call in terms of majority,
then a new feature, introduced onto those ballots in that election,
would be used for a re-count.
While casting that initial vote on the ballot, the voters
also used a ranked-choice system to answer the additional question,
supplement your first-choice candidate
with a second-choice candidate on that ballot.

As described in the November 16 post,
in this Congressional race,
the Republican had more overall votes than the Democratic challenger,
but not by a sufficient majority.
So Maine, by law, went to the ranked choice
filled out in those same ballots.
and in THAT recount,
the Democratic challenger had more votes than the incumbent Republican.

Outgoing Republican Representative Poliquin
has been in the courts with lawsuits and appeals.
Only on Christmas Even did Poliquin finally Tweet his announcement
that he would drop his litigation.
Poliquin had requested, and got, a week-long recount.
Since the recount did not change the election results,
Poliquin has to pay for the recount -- a five-figure sum,
largely to the Maine State Police
who were required to physically retrieve all those ballots all over the district --
and this district in Maine is the largest, in terms of square miles, in the nation.

With Poliquin's decision,
outgoing governor LePage could, and has, officially certified the election results. The announcement was ... yesterday,
December 28.

On January 3, Maine's second Congressional District will have a Democratic Party representative-elect, Jared Golden, sworn in.