Posted on 07/20/2020 5:02:45 PM PDT by karpov
After primary night in New York, June 23, Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney held a 648 vote lead over progressive challenger Suraj Patel. Almost a month later the winner in the 12th District, which covers eastern Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens, remains unknown. It’s a dark omen for November.
The preliminary count included about 40,000 votes, but not 65,000 absentee ballots. If mail votes were postmarked by Election Day, they could arrive June 30 and still be considered valid. Counting was put on hold until that deadline passed, but it didn’t begin until July 8 due to an “unprecedented volume” of mail, as a city official put it.
Meantime, Mr. Patel went on MSNBC and charged that “voter suppression is a real thing,” even inside the Democratic Party. Ms. Maloney called this attack “a cynical abuse of voter confidence” that “comes straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook.” Mr. Patel is party to a federal lawsuit filed Friday that argues “an election law snafu” might “disenfranchise a massive number of voters.”
Usually New York’s absentee ballots need a stamp, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an order in May requiring that for the June election voters “be provided with a postage paid return envelope.” That’s a problem, the lawsuit says, because the U.S. Postal Service “does not traditionally postmark prepaid envelopes.” Despite reported USPS assurances that it would handle election mail correctly, the suit claims thousands of ballots arrived in time to be counted yet lack the necessary postmark.
Unofficial early data suggest that ballot rejection rates for the 12th District could hit 19% in Queens and Manhattan and 28% in Brooklyn. The lawsuit asks that ballots be considered valid if they arrived by June 30, postmark or no. Inevitably, though, this would create the opposite error: Counting truly invalid ballots
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Guess they haven’t dug up enough magic Democrat ballots from the trunks of Buicks yet.
so if this happened in Nov it would make Nancy President ,LOL
Another major FUBAR by that genius of geniuses Governor Cumdrum.
I stopped at the name PATEL.
Democrats are going to scream "EVERY VOTE COUNTS" so they'll demand every vote postmarked after the election be counted.
We'll never know when to stop counting votes without a court order.
No one will trust the results.
Nancy Pelosi will deem someone the winner. Or Cuomo will deem it. Or Don Lemon. Counting of votes isn’t really necessary.
Is that a WSJ headline? Oh, wait. It was a Rat election result that concerns them. Never mind.
One nightmare scenario is that the Democrats decide to pull Biden off the ticket after early voting has begun in October:
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/early-voting-in-state-elections.aspx
Then the Democrats will start crying that Democrats who had early votes for Biden have been disenfranchised, and they litigate state by state...
In the end they would lose in almost all state courts, but the litigation could take many months...
This is exactly what they're hoping to get in November.
Remember the Iowa caucuses? I think it took them two months to figure out who won that one.
Geniuses
>>Guess they haven’t dug up enough magic Democrat ballots from the trunks of Buicks yet.<<
There is always the trusty cemetary.
All-American name. Let’s have steak to celebrate.
I call cemetery voters “post elderly”.
It is a key Democrat demographic!
:-)
Patel is worse than Maloney. Militant leftist, and young.
Hint: When an election in a democrat controlled area results in “they don’t know who won yet” it means the Republican won the vote but the Democrat is going to be given the seat after they finish manufacturing votes.
How many votes can a printing press press
if a printing press could press votes?
and by they way, I get that this is a primary and there is no republican, just commenting on how it always plays out in general elections, ever singe time.
The Bolshies know.
Go Patel
Force the Left to eat its own
Engel wnt down to a BLM thug
Maloney can go down to a Hindu conman
He’ll be busted for corruption 6 months in
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