the smell test.

But I guess they only count if it helps the RePutin candidate.

And the usual interpretation of that law.

That ballot was chosen because, well, that was the ballot that was challenged by the plaintiff. Of course the choice of ballot was biased toward the plaintiff--what fool would pick a ballot that would have helped his opponent?

The ballot in question is ambiguous. Depends on which legal rule on ballots is applied, or whether the voter was just voting a straight GOP ticket, and even some of those have slashes through them.

Who was legally empowered to determine the ballot? That is the question. Did the election commission empower the 3 judge panel? Did they have the authority to delegate that duty? Does the panel have the power to do anything other than confirm or deny the count in its entirety?

I don't think some of those questions are answerable. I don't think the Democratic candidate had the best legal advice.

Go back to your Republican hole, mole.

We've got an internet tough guy here.

does not make a "tough guy"

Using facts, and steering down the middle with logic and common sense makes for gravitas

In general, cyber opinions on DU are like assholes. Everybody has one.



Welcome to DU.

I think what is most tragic about this entire election is that the Democrats won the statewide race by almost 11 Percentage Points, but due to the way the Retrumplicans drew the districts, they still split the Legislature either 50-50, or 51-49 in their favor.

And the Dem is challenging the authority to do so.

Why are you making shit up?

Like someone said above!

And, after the fact at that, so there is an issue of how many times you can recount an election. Can you keep recounting until you get a win? NO.

All this is in the public domain and you should know it if you want to make allegations.

But, it became a tie. That's how the draw a name became relevant.

I thought it was 1 vote lead for the Dem. THEN the panel decided the ballot that they threw out should NOT have been thrown. (this was a ballot marked for a repb, which made it a tie?

You moved on a dime from alleging someone is "making things up" to "we're on the same page..."

Nice attempt!

And i was wrong about how it moved, to a Republican instead of away from a Dem, but same result and same challenge, contesting the alteration late in the game.

The ballot was thrown out based on the agreement of the dem and repub watchers. Challenges are only allowed during the recount. Then the final count was made and dems won by one vote. Then the republican had second thoughts after the time to make a challenge had passed. IMO it's too late. You can't wait for the final count then go back and look for ballots you wish you had challenged if you don't like the outcome. If one ballot gets a second chance, why don't they all? How many chances do you have to get the outcome you want?