Current Events > Republicans looking at stealing the KY governor's election

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https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/06/beshear-vs-bevin-legislature-could-decide-race-senate-president-says/4174103002/

He said believes most of the votes that went to Libertarian John Hicks, who received about 2% of the total vote, would have gone to Bevin and made him the clear winner.
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That's bad

I mean that's embarrassingly bad. If it happens it's enough to make you stop voting for the modern Republican party.
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Republicans sure love to resort to dirty tactic.
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He said believes most of the votes that went to Libertarian John Hicks, who received about 2% of the total vote, would have gone to Bevin and made him the clear winner.

But... those votes weren't for Bevin

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Kain Highwind posted...

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/06/beshear-vs-bevin-legislature-could-decide-race-senate-president-says/4174103002/

He said believes most of the votes that went to Libertarian John Hicks, who received about 2% of the total vote, would have gone to Bevin and made him the clear winner.

He probably would've gotten some of those votes but I'd image a lot of them are Never Trump republicans that didn't like Bevin being a huge Trump ally--they would've probably not voted at all if there wasn't a third party candidate.
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Under state law, Bevin has 30 days to formally contest the outcome once it is certified by the State Board of Elections. Candidates typically ask for a re-canvass of voting machines and a recount first.

The last contested governor's race was the 1899 election

Nobody has asked for anything yet, simmer down. We don't even know if he's going to ask for a recount.

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s0nicfan posted...

Nobody has asked for anything yet, simmer down. We don't even know if he's going to ask for a recount.

Given that Republicans are prone to authoritarian power grabs whenever they lose elections legitimately I'd say this is a reasonable concern

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Kain Highwind posted...

He said believes most of the votes that went to Libertarian John Hicks, who received about 2% of the total vote, would have gone to Bevin and made him the clear winner.

Do a better job convincing that 2% next time then

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Doom_Art posted...

Given that Republicans are prone to authoritarian power grabs whenever they lose elections legitimately I'd say this is a reasonable concern

The last contested governor's race was 120 years ago. So objectively that's not true, at least at this level.

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Scumbag republicans cheating they always do they are vile people
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Democrats have to be kicking themselves for not simply counting Green Party votes as their own.
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s0nicfan posted...

The last contested governor's race was 120 years ago. So objectively that's not true, at least at this level.

I mean if you're being pedantic and limiting the scope of what I said to "contesting formally in government"

I was speaking more to the tantrums the GOP throws when they lose elections or receive unfavorable rulings

See: Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin, PA, Alabama, Maine

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Doom_Art posted...

I mean if you're being pedantic and limiting the scope of what I said to "contesting formally in government"

I was speaking more to the tantrums the GOP throws when they lose elections or receive unfavorable rulings

See: Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin, PA, Alabama, Maine

"Prone to tantrums" is significantly different from "prone to authoritarian power grabs", though. I'll totally agree they're prone to tantrums.

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Antifar posted...

Democrats have to be kicking themselves for not simply counting Green Party votes as their own.

Doesn't the green party get even less votes than the libertarian party?
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God republicans suck so bad.
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lmao, so he's salty a third party played spoiler?

he's not going to win that court battle. Fuck him

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s0nicfan posted...

"Prone to tantrums" is significantly different from "prone to authoritarian power grabs",

Okay

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The party of personal responsibility blaming everything but their own incompetence on their failures.
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How the fuck is this a valid means by which to challenge an election result anywhere?

Remember when Nader played spoiler and those votes let Bush Jr get elected?

Republicans didn't care then.

Malfunction posted...

How the fuck is this a valid means by which to challenge an election result anywhere?

If you read the whole article, it says that the Legislature must judge based upon procedures established by law, and it sounds like there is no law on the topic, so any changes they attempted to make would be thrown out by the courts.

Scumbag-y indeed, but it doesn't sound like this is going to get very far.

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Democrats have literally been trying to reverse the presidential election for 3 years now. The hypocrisy is unreal.
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Brevin is possibly the biggest POS in modern politics.
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pogo_rabid posted...

Brevin is possibly the biggest POS in modern politics.

you misspelled mitch mcconnell

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https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Libertarian-Party-happy-to-cause-delicious-tears-from-Bevin-supporters-564541541.html
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bover_87 posted...

pogo_rabid posted...

Brevin is possibly the biggest POS in modern politics.

you misspelled mitch mcconnell

Oh wait, Dan Malloy was a real piece of shit. He was pretty much universally hated here in CT. Sure how he managed to stay in office as long as he did.
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glitteringfairy posted...

Democrats have literally been trying to reverse the presidential election for 3 years now. The hypocrisy is unreal.

How have they been literally trying to do that?
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Oh look at that, the so called party of personal responsibility acting like a bunch of hypocritical jackasses again. How surprising.

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eston posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

Democrats have literally been trying to reverse the presidential election for 3 years now. The hypocrisy is unreal.

How have they been literally trying to do that?

maybe the not my president hashtag or the russia investigation (collusion, obstruction), the baseless accusations of treason some people still bring up today
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eston posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

Democrats have literally been trying to reverse the presidential election for 3 years now. The hypocrisy is unreal.

How have they been literally trying to do that?

I think he believes impeachment is the same as trying to completely change the outcome of an election.
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Tmaster148 posted...

eston posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

Democrats have literally been trying to reverse the presidential election for 3 years now. The hypocrisy is unreal.

How have they been literally trying to do that?

I think he believes impeachment is the same as trying to completely change the outcome of an election.

And what's funnier about that is Clinton actually did get near 3 million more votes than Trump too
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Wewillrocku posted...

eston posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

Democrats have literally been trying to reverse the presidential election for 3 years now. The hypocrisy is unreal.

How have they been literally trying to do that?

maybe the not my president hashtag or the russia investigation (collusion, obstruction), the baseless accusations of treason some people still bring up today

But does using a hashtag on Twitter change a presidential outcome the same way a state legislature reallocating votes would do?

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

The party of personal responsibility blaming everything but their own incompetence on their failures.

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