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
Category Archives: recounts
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
Mark Brewer has told the Board of State Canvassers that the recount petition will be filed on Wednesday according to the AP. … Continue reading
AP: “…Stein’s recount drive had already netted $6.3 million by Monday, according to her campaign website. That’s close to the $7 million she posted as a goal and millions more than the roughly $3.5 million she raised during her entire … Continue reading
Journal Sentinel reports. … Continue reading
CNN, LAT, NYT, WaPo. Lots more out there on this baseless claim if you care to look for it. … Continue reading
Josh Douglas at CNN. … Continue reading
538, relying on data from FairVote: “Recounts … typically don’t change the margin by an amount that would be large enough to affect the result of this year’s presidential election. The mean swing between the top two candidates in the 27 … Continue reading
I trust Charles Stewart a lot and this is a must-read. … Continue reading
Byron Tau for WSJ. … Continue reading
NYT: Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote is growing. She is roughly 30,000 votes behind Donald J. Trump in the key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin — a combined gap that is narrowing. Her impassioned supporters are now … Continue reading
Miami Herald: Former Congressman David Rivera lost his battle to return to the Florida House of Representatives Tuesday after state elections officials certified that he had lost to Democrat Robert Asencio by 53 votes and Asencio was sworn in to … Continue reading
Press release from McCrory team, which is behind Cooper right now by about 6,000 votes. (A candidate can request a recount if the number < 10,000. It will be very hard to make up a 6,000 vote deficit, and so … Continue reading
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News and Observer: The State Board of Elections on Sunday rejected a request from Gov. Pat McCrory’s campaign to take over election protest reviews, instead setting a 10 a.m. Tuesday meeting to set guidelines for counties to address the complaints. … Continue reading
News and Observer: Roy Cooper’s election law specialist told reporters on Friday that internal calculations tell the campaign that the attorney general has an insurmountable lead over Gov. Pat McCrory. Cooper, the Democrat, has held a lead of about 5,000 … Continue reading
News & Observer. … Continue reading
At the time of this writing, Rep. Darrell Issa leads challenger Doug Applegate for California’s 49th congressional district by about 3,700 votes. But there are still an unknown number of provisional and other ballots left to be counted. On Friday … Continue reading
The News and Observer reports. … Continue reading
News and Observer: Gov. Pat McCrory, trailing in a close race for re-election behind Attorney General Roy Cooper, claims there was “malfeasance” in tabulating votes in Durham County and “irregularities” reported around the state. Cooper’s campaign said nothing improper happened … Continue reading
The Miami Herald reports. … Continue reading
WSJ: Next, county canvassers likely will sort through roughly 10,000 absentee vote, as well as about 30,000 provisional votes from people who recently moved or who registered too recently to be reflected in the voting rolls, said Gerry Cohen, former … Continue reading
Ayotte-Hassan in NHSEN. Cooper-McCrory in NCGOV. What else am I missing? … Continue reading
Jay Willis for GQ. … Continue reading
Ned Foley in Politico: The trouble would come if Trump really digs in. If he alone claims fraud while everyone else disagrees, then his solitary rants are more pathetic than dangerous. But if the Republican Party as a whole joins … Continue reading
A follow up from earlier coverage on the blog: Former Tuscaloosa City Board of Education member Kelly Horwitz has lost her court battle contesting the 2013 election results. Horwitz claimed that opponent Cason Kirby was unfairly elected by members of … Continue reading
The Mercury News reports. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
Ned Foley leads off this week’s Electionline Weekly. … Continue reading