The OC Register reports:
Issa held a 3,234 vote lead over retired Marine Col. Doug Applegate with about 6,000 ballots left to count. Applegate would have to win more than 75 percent of the remaining ballots to catch up,… 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
I wish all ELB readers a safe, enjoyable, relaxing, and low-stress Thanksgiving.
I’ll may be blogging a bit more before I am gone next week. Otherwise, back with you December 5. Dan Tokaji will keep you entertained in the meantime.
Extensive Alex Halderman post at Medium begins:
You may have read at NYMag that I’ve been in discussions with the Clinton campaign about whether it might wish to seek recounts in critical states. Thatarticle, which includes somebody else’s… Continue reading
Quite a report from Gabriel Sherman:
Hillary Clinton is being urged by a group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers to call for a recount in three swing states won by Donald Trump, New York has learned. The group,… Continue reading
Ned Foley:
Rick Hasen makes the correct and important observation that, if North Carolina’s General Assembly were to overturn the state’s gubernatorial election based not on the evidence of the actual valid votes, but solely because of a partisan… 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… Continue reading
Adam Liptak for the NYT:
“Emolument” means compensation for labor or services. And the clause says that “no person holding any office of profit or trust” shall “accept of any present, emolument, office or title, of any kind whatever, from… Continue reading
WTVD reports.
Given that the Fourth Circuit ordered this provision restored, hard to me to see that this complaint is about anything other than trying to stir up more doubts about the election.