2022 Elections Thread

[Motor City]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXSgvHwkESM

Democrats May Lose U.S. House Because New York Dem. Leaders Were Too Focused on Defeating the Left

The balance of power in Congress is still up in the air two days after Tuesday's midterm elections, and control of the Senate now rests on three states: Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. Meanwhile, Republicans have not yet won enough House seats to regain the majority, though there are still over 30 House races not yet decided.

Many analysts say if Democrats lose control of the House, it may largely be because of New York state, where Republicans have flipped four congressional seats. Sochie Nnaemeka, director of the New York Working Families Party, says the "low-participation, low-energy election" was the result of the Democrats' "failed strategies at the state level." And Zohran Mamdani, New York state assemblymember for District 36, explains how GOP-favored redistricting, which he pins on Democratic leadership, "may be part of the reason why we do not hold the House."

Both Nnaemeka and Mamdani are part of a growing coalition calling for the resignation of Jay Jacobs, chair of the state's Democratic Committee, who they say laid the ground for major Democratic losses to the GOP in Tuesday's midterm elections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI9p69Vf21M

Democratic Socialist Summer Lee's Victory in Penn. Gives Progressives a Boost in House

Pittsburgh community organizer Summer Lee was elected the first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania in Congress after winning the state's 12th Congressional District in Tuesday's midterm elections.

Lee, currently a state representative, faced off against Republican Mike Doyle — who happened to share the same name as the outgoing Democratic incumbent. We speak with Aimee Allison, president and founder of She the People, who explains how Lee successfully fended off a massive negative ad campaign funded by the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC. Allison also speaks about the mayoral race in Los Angeles....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAS2zhSODG4

Delia Ramirez: Illinois Elects First Latina Congressmember; Ran on Medicare for All, Imm. Reform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYoOySaRTfY

Progressive Prosecutors Win Key Races Despite GOP Attacks on Criminal Justice Reform


We look at the wave of progressive prosecutors elected in Tuesday's midterms and what the results mean for the movement to reform the criminal justice system. Voters have an "understanding that we can't incarcerate our way to safety," says law professor Lara Bazelon, who explains how progressive prosecutors won several key races in blue, purple and red states despite Republican candidates across the country campaigning with a focus on crime and public safety. "The progessive narrative, far from being dead, is very much alive."

[ap215]

A second House Dem is running for campaigns chief after shockingly positive midterms

After House Democrats mounted a historically muscular showing in the midterms, Rep. Ami Bera is joining the race to lead their campaign arm for 2024.

Bera (D-Calif.) is telling his colleagues his work to protect the party’s seats this cycle — he led the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “frontline” program to protect its most vulnerable members — can make him an effective campaign chief for the next election. Though some races have yet to be called, many Democratic frontliners prevailed in tight races despite expectations of heavy losses.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/1 ... s-00066669

[Libertas]

The guy all cons here adore is speaking at 9 Eastern tonight, announcing I assume.

[ap215]

Karen Bass projected to be next mayor of Los Angeles: AP

Karen Bass will be the next mayor of Los Angeles, according to projections by the Associated Press.

The AP called the race in Bass’s favor around 3:35 p.m. Wednesday.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ap-kar ... s-angeles/

[ap215]

Almost Twice as Many Republicans Died From COVID Before the Midterms Than Democrats

COVID-19 is killing more Republicans than Democrats, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study, titled Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic, used voter registration and death records to answer a question: is there a link between political affiliation and rates of COVID related death in the U.S.?

The short answer is yes. “In 2018 and the early parts of 2020, excess death rates for Republicans and Democrats are similar, and centered around zero,” the study said. “Both groups experienced a similar large spike in excess deaths in the winter of 2020-2021. However, in the summer of 2021—after vaccines were widely available—the Republican excess death rate rose to nearly double that of Democrats, and this gap widened further in the winter of 2021.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vjx8/ ... reddit.com

[Libertas]

Don’t have to go any further than this board to find out why right wingers are dying in greater numbers than everyone else, do we.

[carmenjonze]

Don’t have to go any further than this board to find out why right wingers are dying in greater numbers than everyone else, do we.

They hate themselves even more than they hate the rest of us.

I feel bad for their children.

[Libertas]

Out driving again, pulled over, I will look it up later I just heard kemp got a law passed in Georgia outlawing registering for voting after the midterm

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/31/politics ... index.html

[ap215]

Dammit.

Adam Frisch concedes in Colorado District 3 as Lauren Boebert declares victory

Democrat Adam Frisch has conceded the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

In streamed remarks, Frisch said he called Rep. Lauren Boebert to concede Friday morning. And he said he was proud of his campaign, which drew support not just from Democrats, but also Republicans and unaffiliated voters across the vast district.

https://www.cpr.org/2022/11/18/colorado ... n-boebert/

[Libertas]

Dammit.

Adam Frisch concedes in Colorado District 3 as Lauren Boebert declares victory

Democrat Adam Frisch has conceded the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

In streamed remarks, Frisch said he called Rep. Lauren Boebert to concede Friday morning. And he said he was proud of his campaign, which drew support not just from Democrats, but also Republicans and unaffiliated voters across the vast district.

https://www.cpr.org/2022/11/18/colorado ... n-boebert/

27% under the age of 29 voted...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[ap215]

Broward school board members sworn in, pick Lori Alhadeff as chair, Debbi Hixon as vice chair

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Newly-elected and re-elected Broward School Board members have selected a new chair and vice chair—and both are women who lost family members in the 2018 Parkland school shooting.

Lori Alhadeff won the chairpersonship in a 6-2 vote, while Debbi Hixon was unanimously elected as vice chair.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022 ... ice-chair/

[Motor City]

The Cost of Georgia's Voter Challenger Law

The remarkable lack of evidence for widespread fraud hasn’t stopped Republican lawmakers across the country from seizing on the Big Lie. And in Georgia, where voters may decide which party takes control of the Senate, the state's Republican legislature passed a law, known as SB 202, featuring a provision that explicitly allows, or perhaps, encourages, citizens to challenge the eligibility of an unlimited number of voters.

Since then, there have been tens of thousands of challenges, dumped onto local county election boards in the weeks and months leading up to the midterms. For this piece, OTM Correspondent Micah Loewinger traveled to Georgia to speak to a challenger, the challenged, and election workers caught in the crosshairs.

This is a segment from our November 4th, 2022 show, Free and Fair.

[Motor City]

Michigan Board of Canvassers unanimously vote to certify 2022 midterm election

Michigan’s Board of Canvassers met Monday and certified the results of the November election, but it got contentious, and even police officers had to step in.

Republican Secretary of State Candidate Kristina Karamo and others made claims of widespread fraud with no support to back it up. The meeting also included an impassioned plea from the Republican chair of the board.

“Our freedom is hanging in the balance here,” said Karamo.

Karamo questioned the results and if the election was done lawfully, bringing up the delays in Ann Arbor and how those late-night votes were still counted.

“I am totally against the certification of this election,” said Karamo. “The goal is to never disenfranchise any voter, but our voter rights aren’t just access to the ballot. It’s also ensuring we have a lawfully operated process.”

At times, the difference of opinions got heated, with attendees shouting at the board of canvassers. One attendee, who continued to disrupt the meeting, was removed by Michigan State Police.

The misinformation and constant disruptions frustrated the Republican Chair for Michigan’s Board of Canvassers, Anthony Daunt.......

Frankenstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8f-Qb-bwlU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL9E2QKP2us
Its alive!!!

[ap215]

An Arizona County’s Refusal to Certify Election Results Could Cost GOP a House Seat

A rural Arizona county’s refusal to certify the results of the November election could cost Republicans a seat in the US House of Representatives, where they hold a narrow seven-seat majority.

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, also the governor-elect, has gone to state court to force Cochise County to certify the election after its Republican-led Board of Supervisors failed to meet a Nov. 28 deadline while making debunked claims about the state’s voting machines.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... house-seat

[Number6]

An Arizona County’s Refusal to Certify Election Results Could Cost GOP a House Seat

A rural Arizona county’s refusal to certify the results of the November election could cost Republicans a seat in the US House of Representatives, where they hold a narrow seven-seat majority.

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, also the governor-elect, has gone to state court to force Cochise County to certify the election after its Republican-led Board of Supervisors failed to meet a Nov. 28 deadline while making debunked claims about the state’s voting machines.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... house-seat

Oh please, pretty please with sugar on top don't certify the election results.

[Libertas]

Oh please, pretty please with sugar on top don't certify the election results.

They are hoping more will join them, there is one group of traitors in PA doing this also.

Did I predict it, yes, but to be fair I thought WAY WAY more con i.e. FUCKING TRAITOR counties would do this.

[Libertas]

Cochise county tried to do their own insurrection in AZ

but

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1 ... FV2ejqtweg

BREAKING: Hours after an Arizona Court orders it to do so, Cochise County, AZ votes 2-0 to certify the election.

[carmenjonze]

Marc E. Elias
@marceelias

I don't seek compromise with Republicans on voting rights because there is no middle ground between an arsonist and a firefighter.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1 ... 2222971904
_________

I don't seek compromise on ANYTHING with those dirty white supremacists.

F. them. We don't need them.

[carmenjonze]

Twitter thread.
__________


Jason Coupet
@ProfessaJay

Man voting in Georgia is so different than in Illinois. When I lived in chicago, during early voting, I went to the local elementary school, waited in line about ten minutes, and they gave me a sheet of paper. I checked people off then I put it in the machine and left.




Not Georgia. We drove downtown because *every* other polling place had a line >90 minutes. We paid ten bucks to park. We went in the building, then emptied out pockets to go through a metal detector. We then saw a sign about where to park to get our parking validated. Inside.




We then waited in line ~80 minutes. We got to the end and we were given a form to fill out (?). We were told *not* to sign it until told. Then we were moved into a waiting room where we were given a ticket number, like when you are at the dmv.




We were told to get our IDs out and wait. We waited here for 15-20 minutes. When your number is called they took your form, did some stuff on the computer, then told you to sign the form. Then you get a little green card. You insert it into the machine.




Then you go through three or four prompts, including a very serious warning about perjury, a totally necessary warning given how huge a problem stolen identity is for the purposes of voting on behalf of someone else.



You then finally vote, and after an “are you sure” prompt you get a sheet. You then have to walk the sheet over to feed it into a machine. About half of these were working.



The bottleneck was clearly the weird application and waiting room thing. There are two dozen people at a time sitting to have their stuffed checked. Think of it as regular voting except when you got there they had to run a credit check for *each person* like you need financing.



It was easier finishing my PhD paperwork. Thankful for the kind people (nearly all black women) the shepherded the processes. But man if you are poor or disabled or whatever, good luck yo. That should have been easier. We finished tho.

https://twitter.com/ProfessaJay/status/ ... 1392968704

[Libertas]

This enrages me.

First voter ID is unconstitutional, and the rest of that experience is what happens in Russia and NK.

[gounion]

Okay so this is the election day for Georgia Senate 2022. We won't know anything until tonight.

It seems the chances are low for Walker to win. But that doesn't mean he won't.

If he does, the GOP will get the Senator they deserve. He's a nutjob, not fit to be a United States Senator. But you guys on the right WANT him to win. That's because you don't care about good governance. You're about DESTROYING our Constitutional democracy.

And in the long run, that's a losing horse.

I note that not ONE of our three conservatives have cared enough to denounce what Donald Trump said about terminating the Constitution. But you can certainly manufacture plenty of outrage over something that some Dem backbencher says, even if it's far less ridiculous than what Trump said.

Oh, yeah, and keep trying to shut down the government and impeach everyone in the Democratic Party the next two years. Talk about Biden having Alzheimer's. That's the 2024 message you want to run on. Go ahead.

[Libertas]

Okay so this is the election day for Georgia Senate 2022. We won't know anything until tonight.

It seems the chances are low for Walker to win. But that doesn't mean he won't.

If he does, the GOP will get the Senator they deserve. He's a nutjob, not fit to be a United States Senator. But you guys on the right WANT him to win. That's because you don't care about good governance. You're about DESTROYING our Constitutional democracy.

And in the long run, that's a losing horse.

I note that not ONE of our three conservatives have cared enough to denounce what Donald Trump said about terminating the Constitution. But you can certainly manufacture plenty of outrage over something that some Dem backbencher says, even if it's far less ridiculous than what Trump said.

Oh, yeah, and keep trying to shut down the government and impeach everyone in the Democratic Party the next two years. Talk about Biden having Alzheimer's. That's the 2024 message you want to run on. Go ahead.

Not ONE of the cons here has loudly and definitively denounced ending the Constitution to install rump the traitor? Even I am slightly surprised.

[gounion]

The GOP has an existential problem moving forward - to win national elections, they much divorce themselves from their racist, extreme base that wants to destroy our democracy for an authoritarian autocracy. They must get away from the nutcases.

Problem is, that's well over 50% of their base. First, they can't win a primary without their support. Second, if they renounced their racist, autocratic, anti-democratic base, those people would stay home, further losing national elections. That's why they're still married to Donald Trump, because he controls the base. I don't see that changing.

[Libertas]

The GOP has an existential problem moving forward - to win national elections, they much divorce themselves from their racist, extreme base that wants to destroy our democracy for an authoritarian autocracy. They must get away from the nutcases.

Problem is, that's well over 50% of their base. First, they can't win a primary without their support. Second, if they renounced their racist, autocratic, anti-democratic base, those people would stay home, further losing national elections. That's why they're still married to Donald Trump, because he controls the base. I don't see that changing.

I agree, however I was somewhat surprised to see to see only 2 traitor controlled districts refuse to certify elections, I expected that to be much worse and I am glad I was wrong and I am hoping it is a sign that someday they will get back to just being the vile racist assholes who hate working people etc And not be actual traitors to the country.

The KEY to letting go of rump is for cons to stop supporting him like the ones here who cant be bothered to denounce him but will jump at any chance to call Joe names or mention Hunter.

[Libertas]

Georgia Candidate Who Thinks 2020 Was Stolen Apparently Voted Illegally 9 Times

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/5d3 ... tion-fraud

A right-wing talk show host running in a high-profile special election in Georgia allegedly voted illegally nine times while serving probation for felony convictions, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday.

The candidate, Brian K. Pritchard, is running in a Jan. 3 special election to replace former Georgia Speaker of the House David Ralston, who died last month shortly after winning re-election. Pritchard is running against Sheree Ralston, the late legislator’s widow, in a safe Republican seat that David Ralston won uncontested last month.