11-09-2018, 09:24 AM
All legally cast votes should be counted and the media should stop calling races before mailed-in, absentee, and provisional votes are tallied, unless the election-day vote count indicates a blowout margin of victory which is impossible to close.
It should not matter if the untallied votes are presumed to favor Republicans or Democrats. All votes should be counted, period.
And, candidates should not concede until all votes are counted unless it's certain that there aren't enough untallied ballots to make up a large election day margin of victory.
--New Mexico's Trump-supported House candidate prematurely claimed victory Tuesday night before all votes were counted. She actually lost the race.
--Republican Ron DeSantis may have his victory retracted as his lead margin over Democrat Andrew Gillum (who prematurely conceded) for Florida governor has now been reduced to under .5%. If that holds after all the votes are tallied, a recount will be undertaken.
--Democrat Bill Nelson has picked up enough votes since Tuesday night to be within .25% of Republican Rick Scott for Florida Senate. Nelson is not conceding until every vote is counted. Rick Scott's claim that there's a 'liberal' plot to change the results is bullshit political theater, as is Marco Rubio's support of that conspiracy theory. I don't expect any different from Rick Scott, but I do from Marco Rubio. Just count the votes and audit the results, fair and square.
--Democrat Kyrsten Synema has taken the lead over Republican Martha McSally for Arizona senate by nearly 10,000 votes since Tuesday, but there are still hundreds of thousands of votes from Maricopa County untallied (many of which may be for McSally -- hard to know). It's too close to call, so it's good that it's not been prematurely called.
--While Republican Brian Kemp has claimed victory over Stacey Abrams for Georgia governor, it's not an official win yet as the vote count is close, not all votes have been tallied, and thus Abrams hasn't conceded.
It should not matter if the untallied votes are presumed to favor Republicans or Democrats. All votes should be counted, period.
And, candidates should not concede until all votes are counted unless it's certain that there aren't enough untallied ballots to make up a large election day margin of victory.
--New Mexico's Trump-supported House candidate prematurely claimed victory Tuesday night before all votes were counted. She actually lost the race.
--Republican Ron DeSantis may have his victory retracted as his lead margin over Democrat Andrew Gillum (who prematurely conceded) for Florida governor has now been reduced to under .5%. If that holds after all the votes are tallied, a recount will be undertaken.
--Democrat Bill Nelson has picked up enough votes since Tuesday night to be within .25% of Republican Rick Scott for Florida Senate. Nelson is not conceding until every vote is counted. Rick Scott's claim that there's a 'liberal' plot to change the results is bullshit political theater, as is Marco Rubio's support of that conspiracy theory. I don't expect any different from Rick Scott, but I do from Marco Rubio. Just count the votes and audit the results, fair and square.
--Democrat Kyrsten Synema has taken the lead over Republican Martha McSally for Arizona senate by nearly 10,000 votes since Tuesday, but there are still hundreds of thousands of votes from Maricopa County untallied (many of which may be for McSally -- hard to know). It's too close to call, so it's good that it's not been prematurely called.
--While Republican Brian Kemp has claimed victory over Stacey Abrams for Georgia governor, it's not an official win yet as the vote count is close, not all votes have been tallied, and thus Abrams hasn't conceded.