Dems in Georgia Weigh Election ‘Do Over’ [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 18 Nov 2018 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

After all the post-election massaging of ballots failed to produce a victory for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams, the Party was considering demanding that the courts order a “do over.” The latest recount shows the GOP candidate Brian Kemp with 50.2% of the votes. Since this is a majority of the votes counted it is enough to win the office outright without the runoff that would have been required had he failed to get 50% +1 vote.

The Abrams’ campaign theorized that there are more than enough potential votes that could have been cast if more voters would have gone to the polls or submitted absentee ballots to have pushed Kemp below a majority if these potential votes would have gone for Abrams.

Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Abrams’ campaign chairwoman, lamented that “unlike in Florida, the Georgia Democratic Party was not given sufficient time to locate misplaced boxes of ballots or to correct erroneously marked ballots. Then in Fulton County over 5,000 duplicate ballots were simply discarded. Inasmuch as these traditional tools were not available to us, we contend that this constitutes the type of significant ‘irregularity’ that justifies starting over from scratch. However, since state law doesn’t support our concept of potential votes we have no choice but to concede defeat at this time.”

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https://azconservative.org/2018/11/17/dems-in-georgia-weigh-election-do-over/

[real saxophonist]

Would that Bulloch County Sheriff Arnold Ray Akins were still alive. He could sort all this out.

[DPMD]

Handle the whole do-over on election day thus: “Here’s my first vote; here’s my second vote.” And count them then.

[Boomer]

Right; just have the election over and over until the dems win. Got it. /s