NYT: The pitched six-week battle for the Democratic nomination for Queens district attorney finally ended on Tuesday, when Tiffany Cabán, whose bid galvanized progressive activists nationwide and exposed deep rifts within the left, conceded to Melinda Katz, the favorite of … Continue reading
Category Archives: recounts
NYT: The New York City Board of Elections on Monday certified Melinda Katz, the Queens borough president, as the winner of the June 25 Democratic primary for Queens district attorney, the culmination of a 34-day election battle that was one … Continue reading
Florida gonna Florida. … Continue reading
Provisional or affidavit ballots are counted even when there’s not a recount. But there’s a whole lot more attention on them when the recount comes to town. … Continue reading
AP: A reconstituted North Carolina elections board received a private preview Thursday of what investigators uncovered in their probe of absentee ballot irregularities in the country’s last unresolved congressional race. Chairman Bob Cordle said the new five-member State Board of … Continue reading
AJC: A judge on Friday ordered a rare second do-over election for a northeast Georgia House seat, finding that four voters didn’t live in the district, throwing its outcome into doubt.The new election means that voters will return to the polls for … Continue reading
WSOC TV: Attorneys for Mark Harris filed legal documents Thursday morning with Wake County Superior Court, requesting the results in North Carolina’s controversial 9th Congressional District election in November be certified and Harris be declared the winner – despite a state … Continue reading
McClatchy reports. … Continue reading
WaPo: Incoming House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Friday that Democrats next week will not seat a North Carolina Republican amid allegations of election fraud in the state’s 9th Congressional District. “Given the now well-documented election fraud that took … Continue reading
WRAL: With the State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement disbanding at noon Friday under a court order, Gov. Roy Cooper said he would appoint an interim board to continue investigating allegations of election fraud in the 9th Congressional District … Continue reading
The Press Herald reports. … Continue reading
AP: It’s a sign that every vote does count. A single mystery ballot found on a precinct table on Election Day but not counted then could decide a tied Alaska state House race and thwart Republican efforts to control the … Continue reading
Daily News-Minor: In the nail-biter of a race for House District 1, Republican candidate Bart LeBon and Democratic candidate Kathryn Dodge are tied with 2,661 votes each following a review of all in-person ballots by the bi-partisan State Review Board … Continue reading
LAT: In the new political landscape, recount battles are being waged with unprecedented fervor, as political parties and activists look beyond the race at hand and see opportunities to reform voting laws, resculpt the political map and motivate and focus … Continue reading
Miami Herald: A room full of Miami-Dade election workers began a hand recount Thursday night of more than 10,000 problematic ballots cast in the U.S. Senate race, joined by a room full of lawyers and volunteers from both campaigns eager … Continue reading
Tampa Bay Times: With the 3 p.m. deadline for elections supervisors to submit new vote tallies to the state having now passed in Florida’s Panhandle, new totals show that Gov. Scott leads U.S. Sen. Nelson by 12,603 votes out of … Continue reading
Palm Beach Post: A Leon County circuit judge has ruled that recounts in Palm Beach County for all state races in question be extended to Nov. 20, about five days after the original 3 p.m. Thursday deadline. The order would include extending … Continue reading
Take a listen. … Continue reading
Miami Herald: Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner was aware of recount issues that surfaced in Broward County on Sunday, but said through a spokeswoman that the issues were resolved. The county had an issue during the logic and accuracy … Continue reading
John Myers for the LAT: No state in the nation had as many voters show up for last week’s midterm elections as California. Preliminary data show that about 12 million ballots were cast — some coming in races that produced … Continue reading
and there are concerns about the Broward ballots, and whether poor ballot design, ballot counting machine error or something else might explain the undervote for Senate. Stay buckled in. #BREAKING: Florida is now likely to have TWO recounts. DeSantis and … Continue reading
538 round up. … Continue reading
Miami Herald: Republican Gov. Rick Scott was clinging to a 25,920-vote advantage over Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson as of Wednesday evening — or just 0.32 percent of the 8.1 million ballots cast by Floridians. State law allows for a … Continue reading
AJC: A day after the election, the governor’s race remained in limbo, with Secretary of State Brian Kemp declaring victory and Democrat Stacey Abrams vowing to hang in the race until every vote is counted. A number of other races could result in … Continue reading
Election Administrator’s prayer not answered last night in a number of high profile races. Nelson-Scott (Scott ahead) Walker-Evers (Evers ahead) McSally-Sinema (McSally ahead) Kemp-Abrams (Kemp ahead) … Continue reading
Ned Foley and Steve Huefner at Slate: This year, in particular, the temptation may be especially strong to distort the vote-counting process to achieve a victory for one side or the other. Given the refrain that the current elections are … Continue reading
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. … Continue reading
Philly.com: In a highly-watched special election in western Pennsylvania, Democrat Conor Lamb is currently maintaining a slim lead over Republican Rick Saccone Wednesday morning. With all precincts fully reporting and absentee ballots counted, Lamb holds a 627-vote lead over Saccone … Continue reading
WaPo: Four Democratic voters in Virginia are appealing a court decision that cleared the way for Republicans to take control of the state House of Delegates. At issue is whether errors that led some voters in an extremely close Northern … Continue reading
As I explained in this post, it looks like Roy Moore cannot request a recount in the Alabama Senate race if the margin is greater than 0.5% (there’s an automatic recount for the 0.5% range). Last night on CNN, Alabama … Continue reading
FairVote: In statewide recounts small changes between the initial and recounted totals are to be expected–however recounts rarely change the winner. Examining over two-dozen statewide recounts that have taken place since 2000, FairVote has shown that the average change in … Continue reading
Wisconsin State Journal: Wisconsin’s historic presidential recount ended Monday and resulted in a net gain of 131 votes for President-elect Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton, the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The recount resulted in a net change of 1,769 additional … Continue reading
Opinion: Unsuccessful Green Party Candidate Jill Stein and Pennsylvania voter Randall Reitz allege that because Pennsylvania’s voting machines might have been “hacked” during last month’s election, I must order the Commonwealth to conduct a recount of the votes cast for … Continue reading
LawNewz reports. … Continue reading
Detroit News: A federal judge Wednesday suspended a recount of the Nov. 8 presidential election that started three days ago and has yet to reveal fraud or significantly alter the results. The manual statewide recount cost as much as $3 … Continue reading
Follow this Chris Geidner thread (with links to the relevant documents). … Continue reading
NYT: Dueling court rulings left the fate of a presidential vote recount in Michigan uncertain on Tuesday night, and elections officials in the state said they were “seeking clarity about the next steps.” A recount of last month’s election had … Continue reading
The end for Gov. McCrory’s challenge to the NC gubernatorial race may be near. … Continue reading
Coverage from the NYT and WaPo on Saturday’s state court filing, which says that petitioners can’t afford the $1 million bond. While reportedly dropping the Pennsylvania state court case, the Stein campaign says it will file papers in federal court on Monday seeking a statewide recount. … Continue reading
WaPo: Green Party candidate Jill Stein is asking a federal judge to order Michigan to quickly start a recount of presidential votes. …The recount could start Wednesday because officials say state law requires a break of at least two business … Continue reading
Yesterday’s complaint in Great America PAC v. Wisconsin Elections Commission begins: This lawsuit seeks to enjoin a recount that — like the ill-fated Florida recount the Supreme Court enjoined in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (per curiam) — fails … Continue reading
AP: “Trump Supporters File Federal Lawsuit to Stop Wisconsin Recount” AP: “Philadelphia OKS Targeted Recount, Rejects Software Analysis” Detroit News: “Trump: Stein ‘Commandeered’ Election Process” NYT: “Recount Bids in 3 States Seem the Longest of Long Shots” Reuters: “Michigan Official … Continue reading
From FairVote, on 27 statewide recounts during this period. … Continue reading
From AP and NYT, which reports that the State Board of Elections’ preliminary tally has Democratic candidate Roy Cooper leading Gov. Pat McCrory by 9,813 votes, “perilously close to the 10,000-vote difference that would prohibit Mr. McCrory from demanding a recount.” … Continue reading
CBS: “Clinton Team Sees Recount Effort as Waste of Resources” CBS: “Jill Stein’s Michigan Recount Efforts” Detroit News: “GOP Warns Recount Puts Michigan’s Electors at Risk” The Hill: “What Stein is Getting from Recount” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Judge Rejects Stein’s Request … Continue reading
Featuring Ned Foley, Kim Alexander, Caleb Burns and Michael Shear. … Continue reading
ABC: “Everything You Need to Know About the Election Recount Efforts” CNN: “Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein defended her recount efforts Monday, even though she admits there is no evidence of fraud at the ballot box.” Detroit Free Press: … Continue reading
AP reports that Stewart Mills will seek a recount of votes cast in the northern Minnesota district he lost to U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan by 2,009 votes out of 356,971 cast. … Continue reading
NYT. Both to no avail, I would add. … Continue reading
Silver at 538: “An audit very probably won’t detect a conspiracy, but it will reveal information about our voting systems… [O]ver the next four years, we’re all going to have to get used to an environment in which nuggets of … Continue reading