Anybody surprised?
“This election will certainly be a reminder for everybody that every vote counts.”
And that Republicans can always be counted on to twist an obviously spoiled ballot into a GOP vote.
Die, all Republicans! Die. You fuckers steal. You fuckers cheat. Go to Hell, Republicans. One day, we good and righteous people will stand up and fight back – just as dirty as you. Once we regain control, we will crush you and never allow you to stand up again.
Son of a … I sure hope there’s a legal remedy that puts this back into recount.
Who is surprised by this outcome?
They earn their seats the old-fashioned way. They steal them.
The Republican judges will ensure there is not. The country and 2/3 of the states are governed by a minority party. The defense department is the only really functioning (and adequately funded to say the least) department and the rest of the county is suffering with 1950s infrastructure and a disgraceful (and ineffective) healthcare, education, and every other system. We should not be called a major power any longer. We are a shell - and a laughingstock.
I am somewhat perplexed there was no appeal from the three-judge court panel counting what was self-evidently a spoiled ballot under the rules as they existed, while piously intoning their deep concern that every vote should be counted without apparently gagging. But if I’ve learned one thing practicing in the valley of humility between the two mountains of conceit, it’s that Virginia law is weird. Just really, really, really weird. Weird because they still haven’t adopted a modern civil procedure code along the federal rules line, weird because they throw up all sorts of other implicit barriers to out of state pro hac practice, weird in the kinds of things substantively they choose to make legal or illegal.
And that being the case, I wouldn’t put it past Virginia to provide that there is no appeal from the ruling of such a panel, due process be damned. Maybe a Virginia lawyer will weigh in on the substantive point, and probably a dig at the conceit of North Carolina humility and the twisty weirdness of much of our appellate case law.
The Democrats need to continue to fight this. Now. Sue, oppose, fight. Do not throw up your hands and accept this result.
There’s no reason this should be acceptable. Find a Democrat who had their provisional vote tossed and litigate it.
Stolen.
2017 was for resistance. 2018 is for rising up. Act.
Did anyone check to make sure both names were in the “box”?
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likely future events -
- Democratic candidate reasonably requests further judicial review
- GOP officials scream "it has been decided " - conveniently ignoring that they & their candidate had firmly stated that they would absolutely vigorously appeal if the drawing did not go their way … that they had refused the proposal by the Democratic candidate to abide by the “game of chance” that is the antiquated applicable rule.
By chance, this outcome is complete BS.
“This election will certainly be a reminder for everybody that every vote counts,”
Especially if you are a Republican!
Yes. We’re tired of it. We’re pissed. No more fucks to give.
Fucking cheaters. That’s the only way they ever win any more - cheating.
We like @beattycat. He’s a regular, and regulars are allowed to vent here now and then.
I have read that in fact VA law provides that there is no appeal from such a ruling.