Democrats picked up 2 more wins in the House, bringing the total to 40.
Democrats picked up 2 more wins in the House, bringing the total to 40.
In other news, Mississippi elected their first woman Senator last night in a runoff election.
Something is clearly wrong.
Either there is an issue with the voting, given how the Republican was winning the vote count and it wasn't until weeks later that every Democrat was able to pull off the win.. or something after the election took place is counting up votes where a majority of them are Democrat votes.
So which is it?
I talked to a guy that worked in one of the voting commissions in California. Basically they were still counting absentee votes and stuff. Republicans in his district tend to vote early and the democrats tended to vote late or via absentee or mail in, so that is why Republicans always have a big jump at the beginning. It wasn't due to recounts that the Democrats won, it was just the later votes getting added in.
Last edited by Gelston; 11-28-2018 at 04:19 PM.
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This was what he told me about it...
"Ugh. I was there. In the district. Working several races.
1) AP got it wrong. 100% of precincts had not reported in on election night. In fact, almost every news source called nearly every race in the 39th and 49th districts too close to call for a week after Election Night.
2) In California, nearly everyone can vote by mail at any time, and as long as the ballot is postmarked by Election Day, it is still valid. This means voters can mail in a ballot on Election Day and that ballot likely won’t get counted for-you guessed it, a week and a half.
3) Republicans usually vote early or on time. Democrats tend to procrastinate.
4) There wasn’t a recount in Young Kim’s district.
5) It sucks. It’s stupid. But it happened. And it is not outside the realm of possibility.
So since I was there, and I worked it, and I saw it first hand, those are my thoughts."
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