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Stacey Abrams Says GOP Stole GA Governorship, While FL Recounts Are Nearly Done, by Steven Rosenfeld By Steven Rosenfeld
This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said the former Republican Secretary of State will be the next governor, but...
by Independent Media Institute
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on Fri Nov 16, 2018 at 01:34 PM PST
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Leading Off
● Georgia : On Friday, Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her campaign for governor against Republican Brian Kemp, yet she refused to concede and argued his voter suppression efforts had ...
by Stephen Wolf
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Also: The problem with Vote-by-Mail ballot signatures; Dems pickup ME U.S. House seat in Ranked Choice 'runoff'; GA's illegitimate Guv election...
On today's BradCast: Good news for Democrats out of Maine, a mixed bag (at best) out of the Florida...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 07:17 PM PST
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CNN just updated this story:
Broward County recounted hundreds of thousands of votes for nothing
But where talking Florida here, so of course, votes and recounts are wasted:
Broward County: Recount rejected for being two minutes late
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by benmajor2005
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 07:04 PM PST
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Marc Erik Elias (born February 1, 1969)[1] is an American attorney. He is a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP and head of its Political Law practice. He was the general counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and for John...
by jpmassar
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 02:18 PM PST
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People looking at the still-being-counted Florida and Georgia races are questioning why each successive posting of the current numbers seems to favor the democratic side. It this sneaky? Are they sneaking Dem votes in? Is this a fraud being perpetrated...
by Tim Mooney
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 01:07 PM PST
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By Steven Rosenfeld
This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Federal courts in Georgia—and now Florida, on Thursday—are ordering election officials in both states to count thousands of ballots that...
by Independent Media Institute
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 10:47 AM PST
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Campaign Action
So far, the people are winning in Florida recount lawsuits, of which there are many. In one of the suits, a judge just ruled that around 5,000 voters will have an extended deadline to fix their rejected ballots. The court ruled that...
by Joan McCarter
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 07:20 AM PST
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So Gov. Voldemort (R. FL) is already acting like he’s officially U.S. Senator Voldemort (R. FL):
But as Vanity Fair points out, he’s trying to act like he won a recount he’s trying to kill:
The odds that Nelson can flip the race are...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 08:48 AM PST
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Received this e-mail today from Shaun King on behalf of Our Revolution in support of Stacey Abrams (D. GA) and Andrew Gillum’s (D. FL) campaigns:
Right now votes are still being counted in Florida and Georgia and the vote margins are...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 06:59 PM PST
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The fight to count every vote in FL and GA gets messier still, as Dems pick up yet another U.S. House seat; Also: Ernest A. Canning on CNN's lawsuit against the Trump White House...
On today's BradCast: The electoral dysfunction -- and the fight to...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 06:33 PM PST
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Nasty, works.
In the 8 days immediately preceding Election Day on Nov. 6, Tracy and I received 76 full-color, heavy weight paper campaign flyers in our mailbox. With one day off for Sunday, that’s about 10-and-a-half per day. I had decided to...
by rogerman
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 12:49 PM PST
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Campaign Action
The sitting president of the United States is out of his mind. In an interview with the Daily Caller, he was reduced to ranting like a talk radio caller: you can practically hear the tinfoil crackling on his head as he adds a third...
by Hunter
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 11:58 AM PST
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Fight “The Man” AND get a tan!
TWEETED today w/ form for volunteers to fill out and submit. Lawyers and non lawyers needed!
Head lawyer Marc Elias is busy! Looks from his twitter feed like he’s got election protection lawsuits not just...
by NYCee
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 09:05 PM PST
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By Steven Rosenfeld
This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Florida’s statewide recounts first faced technical obstacles surrounding the sorting and scanning of millions of ballots. Now political...
by Independent Media Institute
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 09:34 AM PST
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Marco Rubio has become increasingly vocal on Twitter in an attempt to pressure election officials and drive a public relations narrative that the Florida vote count (and recount) should be stopped and Republicans declared the victors, even before all...
by Jen Hayden
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 06:48 AM PST
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The number of lawsuits in Florida is almost as difficult to count as the remaining ballots, but they can all be summed up simply enough: Democrats want every vote to count, Republicans don’t. And as Democrats fight to have every voice heard,...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 05:58 AM PST
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Marco Rubio, noted Bible verse tweeting phony and loyal Trump minion, uses a Bible verse to try and bolster his conspiracy theory about the Florida recount.
Bill Nelson’s Florida recount attorney, Marc Elias, responded right away.
I have no...
by First Amendment
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 05:22 AM PST
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Guest: Sara Henderson of Common Cause GA; Also: Dems flip Senate seat in AZ; First Lady calls for firing of top Admin official...
The Trump dumpster fire continues at the White House today, with CNN filing a lawsuit to restore White House press...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 06:35 PM PST
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By Steven Rosenfeld
This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Florida’s 2018 U.S. Senate race will head into federal court for a Wednesday hearing that will put Florida elections under national...
by Independent Media Institute
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on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 03:58 PM PST
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