They won’t admit they’re wrong even when everybody knows they only ruled this way in homage to their party.
I surely hope there’s a remedy to this electoral jerking around.
Is there an appeal right? This decision was so clearly contrary to the statute, I cannot imagine it holding up on appellate review.
Republican Judges Deny Democrat’s Request To Reconsider Tie In Virginia House Race
FIFY
Shameless.
The GOP-appointed judges allowed a violation of procedure, ignored common sense and official VA Dept. of Elections guidance on counting votes in hand recounts, and then get to make it all official by judging that they didn’t make an error.
November 2018 approaches. 2017 was about resistance. 2018 is about rising.
By VA Law, no appeal.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title24.2/chapter8/section24.2-802/
The voters intent seems pretty clear that they wanted a Republican, but as you say this was such a blatant case of an invalid ballot that the judicial decision was clearly purely political. 100% invalid ballot.
Thanks for the link. Too bad about the lack of an appeal. I have no idea what the voter’s intent was. Either way, the rules were clear and that ballot was invalid for that race. It is decisions like this that call our entire system into doubt. Once the judiciary is lost it is hard to have faith that our system can survive.
Whoever loses can order a recount, not sure if that will help. The Dem was classy enough to say she would not order a recount if she lost, as long as the Republican did the same. But of course the Republican went “Roy Moore” and said no. So that gives her the right to order a recount if she loses. Who knows, maybe there are a couple of votes that could be reviewed again. We are literally only talking about 1 vote.
There was another ballot that the Dems could have brought up, but a couple of hours after the Republican judges ruled that the spoiled Republican ballot would be counted, they denied the Dems the same privilege. This was a stolen election pure and simple.