Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
This is from MSN, not from Q-whatever.
But the race is hardly decided. Still outstanding are roughly 17,000 in-person Election Day votes, tens of thousands of more mail ballots,
Why in the world would in-person votes cast more than two days before the date/time of the story have not been counted?
and a critical mass of 290,000 mail ballots that were delivered in person on Election Day.
It’s that last batch that appears to have blindsided Maricopa County election officials, who only received roughly 170,000 such ballots in the last presidential election.
Why would they be "blindsided?" That's not even twice as many. It's 120K more of that particular subset of about 2.4 million votes cast. Those votes could not be slowing down the count, because they haven't even started counting them yet.
Handling so many mail ballots submitted on Election Day has thrown an element of chaos into the count, as mailed ballots typically take longer to process and tabulate.
Notice that change of word from the beginning of the sentence to the end of the sentence? Yes, "mailed" ballots take longer, but those 290K are not "mailed" ballots, they are ballots that were dropped off on election day. That kind of slippery wordsplay is what passes for journalistic excellence these days.
Early on Thursday, the campaigns had been expecting that Maricopa County would have tallied much of those 290,000 ballots by that evening. Later in the day, however, officials revealed the counting could stretch into next week.
They're stalling.
But why?
Why would Democrats selected by the Democratic Secretary of state to count the ballots in her own gubernatorial election be stalling the count? If they thought that the rest of the ballots would favor Hobbs, her people would be counting them at breakneck speed, with Katie cracking the proverbial whip.
I wonder why . . .
Both campaigns as well as Arizona political insiders on both sides of the aisle say those 290,000 ballots will likely determine the hotly-contested race between Hobbs, Arizona’s secretary of state, and Lake, a former local TV news anchor.
Republican and Democratic sources expect those votes to lean toward Lake, largely because former President Donald Trump won most of the in-person drop offs two years ago. They also suspect that a substantial percentage of those voters this time around are Republicans who stayed on the absentee rolls after 2020 but who prefer to deliver their mail ballots in person on Election Day because they don’t trust mailing them in or leaving them in drop boxes.
There's my answer.
“We believe that the vast majority, a huge number of those mail-in ballots that were hand-delivered on Election Day will go our way,” Lake told Fox News on Thursday.
Of course Kari Lake would hope so, she is no more an impartial observer of this election than Katie Hobbs. But the left-center biased MSN does not challenge it in any way. No "experts say that is overly optimistic," no "echoing similar lies by Trump," or any of the other spin the media puts on political stories involving Trump or Trump-backed candidates whenever they can.
So why stall? Best case scenario is that Hobbs knows she's going down and wants time to prepare for a graceful exit. Based on past behavior, the more likely case is that they want the time to seek ways to queer the results, get cases into court, engineer power outages that allow them to cheat unseen, or find a way to stop the count before the dropped-off ballots put Lake over the top.
But the race is hardly decided. Still outstanding are roughly 17,000 in-person Election Day votes, tens of thousands of more mail ballots,
Why in the world would in-person votes cast more than two days before the date/time of the story have not been counted?
and a critical mass of 290,000 mail ballots that were delivered in person on Election Day.
It’s that last batch that appears to have blindsided Maricopa County election officials, who only received roughly 170,000 such ballots in the last presidential election.
Why would they be "blindsided?" That's not even twice as many. It's 120K more of that particular subset of about 2.4 million votes cast. Those votes could not be slowing down the count, because they haven't even started counting them yet.
Handling so many mail ballots submitted on Election Day has thrown an element of chaos into the count, as mailed ballots typically take longer to process and tabulate.
Notice that change of word from the beginning of the sentence to the end of the sentence? Yes, "mailed" ballots take longer, but those 290K are not "mailed" ballots, they are ballots that were dropped off on election day. That kind of slippery wordsplay is what passes for journalistic excellence these days.
Early on Thursday, the campaigns had been expecting that Maricopa County would have tallied much of those 290,000 ballots by that evening. Later in the day, however, officials revealed the counting could stretch into next week.
They're stalling.
But why?
Why would Democrats selected by the Democratic Secretary of state to count the ballots in her own gubernatorial election be stalling the count? If they thought that the rest of the ballots would favor Hobbs, her people would be counting them at breakneck speed, with Katie cracking the proverbial whip.
I wonder why . . .
Both campaigns as well as Arizona political insiders on both sides of the aisle say those 290,000 ballots will likely determine the hotly-contested race between Hobbs, Arizona’s secretary of state, and Lake, a former local TV news anchor.
Republican and Democratic sources expect those votes to lean toward Lake, largely because former President Donald Trump won most of the in-person drop offs two years ago. They also suspect that a substantial percentage of those voters this time around are Republicans who stayed on the absentee rolls after 2020 but who prefer to deliver their mail ballots in person on Election Day because they don’t trust mailing them in or leaving them in drop boxes.
There's my answer.
“We believe that the vast majority, a huge number of those mail-in ballots that were hand-delivered on Election Day will go our way,” Lake told Fox News on Thursday.
Of course Kari Lake would hope so, she is no more an impartial observer of this election than Katie Hobbs. But the left-center biased MSN does not challenge it in any way. No "experts say that is overly optimistic," no "echoing similar lies by Trump," or any of the other spin the media puts on political stories involving Trump or Trump-backed candidates whenever they can.
So why stall? Best case scenario is that Hobbs knows she's going down and wants time to prepare for a graceful exit. Based on past behavior, the more likely case is that they want the time to seek ways to queer the results, get cases into court, engineer power outages that allow them to cheat unseen, or find a way to stop the count before the dropped-off ballots put Lake over the top.
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