The oracles have spoken, and they have declared a winner!
Hey there’s no mandate more authoritative than the Biblical casting of lots! This is the hugest Mandate since Matthias took over for Judas Iscariot!
Had a surprisingly busy day for a snow day, so I didn’t find out who won the drawing until 10 minutes ago.
Yesterday, Simonds proposed a deal to Yancey where they would both agree to abide by the outcome of the drawing - no appeals, no more recounts, no nothing.
Yancey rejected that offer, and Simonds is considering her options. I’m not sure which options are real and which are illusory, but Yancey must have believed there are real options, otherwise there’s no reason not to accept that deal.
Dueling pistols at dawn.
And now is she just gonna fold? That’s what pisses me off about Democrats the past 20 years: they don’t fight at all, they just let the GOP [del]walk[/del]shit all over them (and our country).
FIGHT FOR IT! Don’t let him game the system and take your election win without a fucking fight ffs.
Is she? Link, please.
What is it you think I’m going to provide a link to? My own question? 
Why don’t we take this bullshit and chuck it in the quarry.
Yeah, that evenhanded ‘question’ of yours. ‘I was just asking a question!’
Yeah. Quarry.
Per Larry Sabato, Dems got 55% of the vote in VA House of Delegates races. And will only get 49 out of 100 seats.
(Dems had a 54-44 edge in districts where both parties had candidates, so the imbalance had nothing to do with uncontested districts.)
Sounds like democracy to me. :dubious:
I don’t get it. The ballot in question is clearly “spoiled”, if you screw up or change your mind, you go get a fresh ballot and try, try again. What was there even to argue about?
If they followed the rules and marked an obviously spoiled ballot as invalid, then the democrat would have won.
Since the republican must win, the ballot must be counted, even if that is clearly against the rules.
So now we know that the way to win an election is to grab a bunch of ballots out of the already-counted pile and say “Oops, we meant to count these before, now count them again.”
You’ve put all kinds of words and motivations on me; I have no idea why.
I asked a question in my post, you quoted it and you said “cite?” I asked what you think I’d cite and you call something, apparently my reply, “bullshit”. What kind of cite do you want for a question? What the fuck are you on about? Your request and now your reply are not coherent.
Your comment seemed to be declaring that she was giving up. The question posed appeared to me to be rhetorical. I won’t speak for anyone else.
I’d ask the same question of you, though the ‘about’ seems superfluous.
That’s enough, both of you.
Any more personal cracks - by anyone - about another poster will be sanctioned.
Actually, it’s not clearly “against the rules.” There are rules in place to deal with ballots like this. Whether or not that should have resulted in this ballot being counted as being a vote for the Republican candidate is, of course, debatable.
Here ya go. How do you find it debatable?
Somewhere in these seven pages there must be a bit of a discussion on McAuliffe restoring voting rights to felons…can somebody point me to it?