Roy Moore files last-minute lawsuit challenging Alabama result

BBC News ^ | 12/28/2017 | BBC

[Nextrush]

Republican Roy Moore, who lost a recent Alabama senate election to his Democrat rival Doug Jones, has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to challenge the result.

The lawsuit was filed the day before officials were due to certify Mr. Jones the winner-two weeks after the vote....

Mr. Moore's lawyer said the purposed of the complaint was to "preserve evidence of potential election fraud and to postpone the certification of Alabama's Special Election by Secretary of State John Merrill until a thorough investigation of potential election fraud, that improperly altered the outcome of this election."

Mr. Merrill told the Associated Press on Wednesday that he had not intention of delaying the canvassing board meeting and certification of the winner.

"I am not going to delay certification and Doug Jones will be certified (on Thursday) at 1pm and he will be sworn in by Vice-President Pence on 3 January," Mr. Merrill said........

[Nextrush]

The GOPe in Alabama has always hated Roy Moore and they are looking the other way about the 92 percent turnout in the Democrat area inflated by who knows what kind of activity.

The lawsuit cites problems in 20 precincts.

The Secretary of State's smart aleck comments using the fact that Jones will be sworn in by VP Mike Pence reminds us that the insiders in Alabama and in Washington were against Moore.

Pence campaigned for days with Luther Strange during the primary runoff, then disappeared from campaigning for Roy Moore in the general.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Moore lost fair and square. The fact that he held endless press conferences denying the allegations, while Jones was campaigning across the state, makes Jones victory even more solid.

[Revel]

“Moore lost fair and square”

You should write a book.

“Fair and square”
By Extremely Extreme Extremist

[blam]

"Moore lost fair and square. The fact that he held endless press conferences denying the allegations, while Jones was campaigning across the state, makes Jones victory even more solid."

I agree. Moore is done.

He should have stayed as chief justice of the Alabama supreme court.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

20,000+ write-in votes.

Moore spending countless hours denying the allegations, while Jones was campaigning and doing meet-and-greets.

Jones firing up his base.

Clearly, enough Moore supporters in AL stayed home.

[proust]

5 posts in a Moore thread? Looks like folks have moved on. Roy should do the same.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Got what he deserved. Why didn’t the GOP voters know he already lost time in statewide elections? GOP is stupid.

[DiogenesLamp]

Moore lost fair and square.

No, he did not. Allowing the media to spread unproven accusations from 40 years ago was not fair. Having numerous Republican officeholders embracing the accusations without proof, and urging voters to vote for someone else, was also not fair.

[DiogenesLamp]

Clearly, enough Moore supporters in AL stayed home

What do you expect to happen when prominent Republican officials, especially those in your home state, embrace the accusations as true, and urge people to stay home or vote for someone else?

You accuse a man of being a child molesting rapist, and it seriously damages his chances of being elected. Even more so when his own party urges people to act as if he were guilty.

[DiogenesLamp]

Got what he deserved.

How did he "deserve" it? Explain your thinking here.

[DiogenesLamp]

5 posts in a Moore thread? Looks like folks have moved on. Roy should do the same.

Or perhaps people see no point in raging against the sea of public opinion, which may or may not be based on what is actually true.

Sometimes a majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

[Nero Germanicus]

In the presidential election of 1800 the news media, paid for by the John Adams campaign, published an unproven accusation that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children by his deceased wife’s half-sister, who was Jefferson’s slave, Sally Hemings.
“All’s fair in love, war and politics” and “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

[Yosemitest]

Roy Moore Files To Block The Stolen Election ( 16:20 )

Here's the Court Filed Moore Voter Fraud Complaint .

Did you watch the youtube.com video that shows the reduction in the total count of over 2,000 votes (16,028 dropped to 14,321 Roy Moore Write-in votes) of the COMPUTER TOTAL for JUDGE Roy Moore in just one minute, from 6:58 to 6:59 of the LIVE running voting COMPUTER COUNT video Seth Abramson posted, that he shows in his own video ?
Start at 4 minutes 33 seconds into THE VIDEO and go until 16:20, the end of the video.

Tell me ... WHEN does a running total vote count GO DOWN, and NOT UP ?

[DiogenesLamp]

You've been gone awhile. I checked a week or so ago.

“All’s fair in love, war and politics” and “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

In a war, you do not normally expect to get shot in the back by the people in your own army.

[deport]

Alabama Certifies Jones Win, Brushing Aside Challenge From Roy Moore

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/politics/roy-moore-block-election.html

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama officials on Thursday unhesitatingly pushed aside a legal challenge from Roy S. Moore and certified Doug Jones as the winner of this month’s Senate election.

The action, during a brief meeting at the State Capitol, was essentially the state’s final step before the seating of the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Alabama in a quarter century. It was also a swift rejection, by some of the state’s most powerful Republicans, of Mr. Moore’s complaint that he was the victim of “systematic voter fraud.”

Mr. Jones’s margin of victory was 21,924 votes with more than 1.3 million ballots cast.

[Nero Germanicus]

In the presidential election of 1800 the news media, paid for by the John Adams campaign, published an unproven accusation that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children by his deceased wife’s half-sister, who was Jefferson’s slave, Sally Hemings.
“All’s fair in love, war and politics” and “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

[DiogenesLamp]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama officials on Thursday unhesitatingly pushed aside a legal challenge from Roy S. Moore and certified Doug Jones as the winner of this month’s Senate election.

I didn't know state officials had the authority to push aside a legal challenge. Silly me, I thought a court had to make a ruling one way or the other. Did that happen?

[deport]

[Yosemitest]

Start at 4 minutes 33 seconds into THE VIDEO and go until 16:20, the end of the video.

Tell me ... WHEN does a running total vote count GO DOWN, and NOT UP ?

[DiogenesLamp]

Black Muslim judge tosses out election challenge from White Christian man?

Yeah, saw that. OJ Simpson trial all over again.