BREAKING NEWS From Alabama…
ROY MOORE Just Made MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT…
THIS IS HUGE!!!
Alabama Republican Senatorial hopeful Roy Moore is keeping the dream alive for supporters
in the hotly contested Alabama Senate race against Democrat Doug Jones.
Moore told his base the 'battle is not over' despite President Donald Trump and others
calling on him to concede.
Moore lost to Jones on Tuesday night by some 20,000 votes – 650,436 votes, or 48 percent,
to 671,151, or 50 percent.
Moore is not ruling out asking for a recount in his failed bid for the U.S. Senate though
but that does not mean it will happen or even be allowed in this instance.
Moore sent a fundraising email to supporters asking for contributions to his "election
integrity fund" so he could investigate reports of voter fraud, telling supporters
– "I also wanted to let you know that this battle is NOT OVER!".
On Tuesday Jones was announced as victorious by about 20,000 votes, or 1.5% according to
unofficial returns.
But Moore has not yet conceded the heated Alabama race to fill the seat that previously
belonged to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Moore has refused to concede the race to Jones, saying he will wait until all provisional
and military ballots are counted and the race is certified.
Moore told supporters that the race was "close" and some military and provisional ballots
had yet to be counted.
Those are expected to be counted next week.
Moore has also said his campaign is collecting "numerous reported cases of voter fraud"
to send to the secretary of state's office.
Moore told supporters Tuesday night : "Realize when the vote is this close, it's
not over and we still got to go by the rules about this recount provision.
It's not over, and it's going to take some time.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill says it is unlikely that the last-minute ballots
will change the outcome of the election or even trigger a recount.
The margin must be under 0.5% in order to trigger an automatic recount and in this instance,
the state would pay for it roughly to the tune of a cool $1 million in taxpayer money.
The results of Alabama's Senate race will be certified between Dec. 26 and Jan. 3 after
counties report their official totals.
Merrill stated –
"I know a lot of people would say it's never over until it's over, but the margin
of victory for Doug Jones at this particular time looks like a very difficult amount of
votes to overcome as the remaining votes that are out there to be counted next week begin
to be considered at the local level."
Merrill has also stated his office has investigated reports of voting irregularities, but have
not discovered any that have been proven factual in nature.
President Trump has endorsed Jones' win, calling to congratulate him as well as calling
on Moore to concede the race.
If Jones' margin of victory ends up being more than 0.5% then things get a little dicier
for a recount option.
According to AL.com –
Alabama's election handbook spells out several offices that are not included in state laws
for contesting elections: lieutenant governor, U.S. senator, and U.S. representative.
There are other provisions, however, that indicate a candidate or political party could
request a recount.
Who might challenge Doug Jones in 2020?
"It's our contention the votes can be recounted," John Bennett, Deputy Chief of
Staff for the Secretary of State's office told AL.com.
"We contend that authority is there."
Bennett said, however, that the office will not make a determination on a recount until
after the ballots are certified.
"We're not at that point," he said.
If Moore is allowed to request a recount, it will be at his expense and that could be
considerable.
Merrill told Fortune the cost of recount would be between $1 million and $1.5 million and
the total amount must be put up when the request is made.
Moore's most recent financial report showed he had about $636,000 cash on hand.
It's also unlikely the Alabama Republican Party – which backed Moore even after the
national GOP temporarily suspended its support – would be willing to help fund a recount.
Alabama Republican Party Chairman Terry Lathan issue a statement after Jones' win saying
"the race is over."
"While we are deeply disappointed in the extremely close U.S. Senate election results,
with our candidate Judge Roy Moore, we respect the voting process given to us by our Founding
Fathers," Lathan said.
HOWEVER – It is important to note that Merrill and others
are missing that there were some rather significant irregularities in the Jones/Moore Senatorial
election in Alabama as just even a cursory search of the internet reveals.
According to mainstream left-leaning Newsweek, thousands of felons registered to vote in
this Senatorial election.
Thousands of felons may have registered to vote in the weeks leading up to the Alabama
Senate election on Tuesday, in which Democrat Doug Jones pulled off a surprise victory.
Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, who spearheaded the effort, said on the November 27 registration
deadline that at least 5,000 to 10,000 people statewide had registered that month.
"I've got people all over the state registering people," Glasgow, who is president of The
Ordinary People Society (TOPS) advocacy group, told AL.com at the time.
"With my TOPS branches in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Montgomery, Enterprise, Dothan, Abbeville,
Geneva, Gordon, Bessemer, we have a lot."
But according to Merrill, that's not worth noting??
Then there was the eleventh-hour court order that gave election officials the green light
to NOT preserve electronic ballot records which would form the basis for any recount
effort in the first place.
According to the left-leaning Guardian –
A court in Montgomery, the state capital, issued an injunction on Monday afternoon ordering
election officials around the state to preserve digital images of the ballots cast by Alabama
voters in the hard-fought contest between controversial Republican Roy Moore and Democrat
Doug Jones.
But the supreme court stayed that injunction almost immediately following a protest lodged
by Alabama's chief election official, the secretary of state, John Merrill.
Voting rights experts denounced the ruling as a blow to transparency in a state that
already has a flawed vote recount procedure and a somewhat checkered history of questionable
election outcomes that the state's senior officials and courts have allowed to go unchallenged.
"There's no legitimate reason not to preserve ballot images," said Christopher Sautter,
a veteran Washington election lawyer who helped the plaintiffs in the case.
"It's neither expensive nor inconvenient.
It amounts to flipping a switch."
Then there was the enthusiastic volunteer that announced to one and all that people
came from "all over the country" to Alabama to vote for Jones.
It certainly seems like there is more than ample evidence of potential skewing of election
results especially in light of the disproven 40-year-old allegations of sexual impropriety
levied against Moore just 30 days before election day.
He himself had been in the public eye for more than 40 years with no hint of such allegations.
Yet all of sudden here they come standing beside Gloria Allred.
One victim was traced directly to the Democratic party, another was called out by her own stepson,
one has an ax to grind due to Moore representing her mother in a contentious child custody
case, and yet a third admitted to forging Moore's signature in her yearbook.
This whole thing smells to me.
What do you think?
Does this whole thing sound fishy to you?
Does Alabama need a recount?
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