It is unknown how a deal struck to streamline voting during the 2012 presidential election, while barring some voting-access outreach by counties in 2011, will affect turnout in Ohio as voters will go to the polls next week to decide, among other ballot items, Issue 2, the veto referendum on More…
After Rep. Patrick Murphy (D) and challenger Mike Fitzpatrick (R) traded accusations of election monkeying in Bucks County, Pa., the election board has made a last-minute decision to wait to count all the approximately 8,000 absentee ballots it has received until Wednesday.
The reason, in part, stems from More…
Fox News continues its drumbeat on the “rampant, largely ignored and troubling issue” of voter fraud with a story about Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick Henry, whose computer was allegedly “used to obtain dozens of absentee ballots prior to the city’s Aug. 24 elections, in which he was re-elected.”
An More…
As the NY-23 absentee ballot count moves into districts that were won by Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.), his lead is growing over Conservative Party challenger Doug Hoffman. According to the Watertown Daily Times, Owens now leads by 3,096 votes with 3,105 absentee ballots left to count. That represents More…
I see that Doug Hoffman has “un-conceded” in the NY-23 special election after some prodding from Glenn Beck. Unfortunately for the Conservative Party candidate, the absentee ballot count so far points to a victory for Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.). The key problem for Hoffman: Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate who More…
Mark Ambinder has a post running under the headline, “Provocation of The Day: Coleman Could Still Win.” He argues:
The Minnesota canvassing board doesn’t certify a winner; it simply certifies a count. Here we are in the contest phase. In legal terminology, it’s a de novo trial – totally
DFL Senator-apparent Al Franken today asked Minnesota’s governor and secretary of state to certify his election victory so that he can provisionally join the U.S. Senate while his opponent, former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman’s legal challenge is resolved.
At the end of the statewide recount, Franken led by 225 More…
Our brethren at The Minnesota Independent have a nice rundown of what the coming weeks will bring in the complex U.S. Senate battle in Minnesota. But for the link-averse among you, I’ll provide a rundown of the rundown:
Basically, Republican Norm Coleman is contesting DFLer Al Franken’s election More…
In a previous post, I ran some calculations to explain why it’s not in Sen. Norm Coleman’s interest to allow all of the improperly rejected absentee ballots to be counted in the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota. Basically, if the voting patterns follow the election-night trends, challenger Al Franken More…
Via Ezra Klein: Al Franken has sent an email to his supporters that just about declares victory in the exceedingly close and drawn-out Minnesota U.S. Senate race:
I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your support and your patience during this long recount process.
Today I’ve
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