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Daehawk wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:32 am Ossoff is worrying me. Still behind by 10,000.

Zaxxon wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:11 am
Had to get the election watchers out so they can get to the frauding. This is a real claim I've seen several times on Twitter tonight.

Or...it could be that’s where the actual people live so there are more votes to count.

Looks like they are setting up a big “voter dump” against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?

Skinypupy wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:48 am Right on cue.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTr ... 9492998146

Looks like they are setting up a big “voter dump” against the Republican candidates. Waiting to see how many votes they need?

Glad I’m not in DC...tomorrow’s gonna be really ugly.

I've seen enough. Jon Ossoff (D) defeats Sen. David Perdue (R) in GA's other Senate runoff. #GASEN

Democrats win control of the Senate.

As I type, the Republicans look like they are going to lose the Georgia races, both of them. Congratulations to Joe Manchin, the moderate Dem of West Virginia, who would then be the most powerful senator. Congratulations to Stephen Breyer, the associate Supreme Court justice who would be promptly informed by the incoming White House that he is 82 years old and can be replaced, hopefully before another octogenarian Democrat dies in the world’s greatest deliberative body.

Blame the GOP candidates. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue were bad candidates, though Loeffler was much, much worse. To my eyes, it seemed as if Loeffler barely understood — let alone believed in — the content of her attack lines on Raphael Warnock.

Blame Governor Brian Kemp: Why did he choose Loeffler to fill the seat? She’s a great fundraiser, but there was no evidence of talent for electoral politics.

Blame Donald Trump: This is the third election in which Donald Trump has made himself the sole focus of a campaign, and the third election that Democrats won new voters and had fantastic turnout: 2018, 2020, and now 2021. Instead of the races being about control of the Senate, Trump made the election about himself and his baseless claims of voter fraud. By indulging these claims, Loeffler and Perdue were put into a civil war with their governor and other elected Republicans in Georgia. They also gave more reasons for Democrats to turn out.

Isgrimnur wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:31 am https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/stat ... 5193366528

Grifman wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:49 am

Isgrimnur wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:31 am https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/stat ... 5193366528

Anyone who believes this is insane. First it was China and Iran and Venezuela and NK, then servers in Spain and Germany, now Italy? When a story keeps shifting, that's a sign the conspiracy theory is falling a part. The thing is, millions of people will believe this. The Republican Party is now Idiocracy Party. My hope at this point is that the Trumpers decide to take their marbles and go home, or the party splits or becomes ineffective, so at some point, some reasonable, rational intelligent conservatives lead them out of the desert. But first they are going to have to find those people.

Two unsuccessful GOP candidates for St. Lucie County Board of County Commission seats, Christopher Thompson and Ryan Edward Collins, and the local Republican Party on Nov. 27 filed a lawsuit against St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker alleging flawed ballot counting, blank ballots mailed to deceased individuals, and a lack of scrutiny of mail-in ballots for accuracy by Walker’s office.1

No evidence was submitted as part of the complaint, nor is any evidence part of the public court record to date.2

The 19-page complaint filed in the 19th Judicial Circuit Court states both candidates lost the election due to the large influx of mail-in ballots.3 The claims made are comparable to those made by President Donald Trump who also sued several jurisdictions claiming mail vote fraud; his claims were dismissed in court. 4

Voters in record numbers across the country mailed in ballots because of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Inquirer wrote: The new session of the Pennsylvania Senate got off to a chaotic start Tuesday, with Republicans refusing to seat a Democratic senator whose election victory has been certified by state officials.

Amid high emotions and partisan finger-pointing, Republicans also took the rare step of removing the Democratic lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, from presiding over the session. They apparently did so because they did not believe Fetterman was following the rules and recognizing their legislative motions.

Democrats, in turn, responded by refusing to back Sen. Jake Corman (R., Centre) from assuming the chamber’s top leadership position — an unusual maneuver on what is most often a largely ceremonial and bipartisan vote.

WaPo wrote:In an interview, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) accused Republicans of “raw partisanship,” drawing a “straight line” between their actions and broader GOP resistance to certifying the election of President-elect Joe Biden.

“This idea that one’s party is allowed to pick the winner, despite evidence to the contrary, is toxic and corrosive, and that is what you saw play out on the floor of the Senate today,” he said.

Brewster edged out his Republican opponent Nicole Ziccarelli by 69 votes, and Ziccarelli is urging a federal court to discount about 300 mail ballots from Allegheny County without handwritten dates on their envelopes. State law requires the dates, and Republicans note that many counties did not include such ballots in their tallies. But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has allowed the disputed Allegheny County votes to be counted.

Republicans say they are justified in delaying Brewster’s seating while “ensuring … properly elected representation,” as Sen. Jake Corman, the president pro tempore, said in a statement. Corman said Pennsylvania’s secretary of state should have made sure voters were treated equally across counties before certifying election results.

“While we work to resolve this issue expeditiously we … are confident a brief delay in filling the seat for the 45th Senate District will not affect the balance of power in the Senate,” he said, adding that constituents “will continue to receive assistance with their state-related issues.”

Democrats say lawmakers have exceeded their authority in interfering with a certified race. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) called the refusal to seat Brewster “a disgrace to democracy.”

Unagi wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:07 am So, who would vote for Warnock, but not cast their vote for both???

My guess is it was done in ignorance. Like some people didn’t realize they could ?

Unagi wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:07 am So, who would vote for Warnock, but not cast their vote for both???

My guess is it was done in ignorance. Like some people didn’t realize they could ?

pr0ner wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:24 am

Unagi wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:07 am So, who would vote for Warnock, but not cast their vote for both???

My guess is it was done in ignorance. Like some people didn’t realize they could ?

I am sure the correct answers are much more involved than simply ignorance.