Mid-term Election 2022 Live Thread – Welcome to the Party Pal!

[Free Vulcan]

It's Christmas Day for political junkies! Hoping it will be a fun night with the Rats going down in flames.

Generally get results from Decision Desk HQ: https://results.decisiondeskhq.com/  Signup is free for more detailed info.

There are also a number of sites that follow nationwide and are quick to update: Politico, CNN, NY Times, etc., and most counties and states have their own websites for election totals.

Poll closing times:

7 p.m. ET
Georgia
Indiana * (some polls close at 6 p.m. ET)
Kentucky * (some polls close at 6 p.m. ET)
South Carolina
Vermont
Virginia

7:30 p.m. ET
North Carolina 
Ohio
West Virginia

8 p.m. ET
Alabama
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida * (some polls close at 7 p.m. ET)
Illinois
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts 
Mississippi
Missouri
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennesee
Washington, D.C.

8:30 p.m. ET
Arkansas

9 p.m. ET
Arizona 
Colorado
Louisiana
Kansas * (some polls close at 8 p.m. ET)
Michigan * (some polls close at 8 p.m. ET)
Minnesota
Nebraska
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
South Dakota
Texas  * (some polls close at 8 p.m. ET)
Wisconsin 
Wyoming

10 p.m. ET
Iowa
Montana
Nevada
Utah

11 p.m. ET
California
Idaho * (some polls close at 10 p.m. ET)
Oregon * (some polls close at 10 p.m. ET)
Washington

12 a.m. ET
Hawaii

1 a.m. ET
Alaska

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Ehhhhhhhhh, let's hold off on the premature celebrating.

[Polly Ticks]

Shouldn't you really have started this thread days or weeks from now??   

It should be an interesting night, in any case. Thanks for the link.

[Free Vulcan]

Ehhhhhhhhh, let's hold off on the premature celebrating.

That's from Die Hard, when John McClane, shoeless and up to his neck in terrorists, sarcastically greets his new cop buddy 'Roy' over the big turd pile he just stepped into.

Pretty descriptive of where we are now.

[mystery-ak]

Thanks for starting this @Free Vulcan

[Texas Yellow Rose]

 

[Free Vulcan]

Thanks for starting this @Free Vulcan

Boo-yah!

Let's hope it's a good day.

[Free Vulcan]

Judge blocks Arizona county from hand-counting ballots

McGinley said the Cochise County Board of Supervisors overstepped its authority by ordering the hand count of all ballots cast in the midterm election rather than the sample allowed by state law.

The Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans filed the lawsuit to stop the hand count. It argued state law only allows a small number of ballots to be counted by hand to ensure voting machine accuracy and that a hand count could cause a delay in certifying the election results, the Associated Press reported.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/judge-blocks-arizona-county-from-hand-counting-ballots

[Free Vulcan]

Wisconsin judge won’t order sequestering of absentee military ballots

A Wisconsin judge on Monday, less than 14 hours before polls opened, refused to order that military absentee ballots be pulled aside and sequestered until it can be verified that they were cast legally, saying that would be a “drastic remedy” that could disenfranchise voters...

...Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Maxwell denied that request for a temporary restraining order in a ruling from the bench following a two-hour hearing Monday afternoon.

https://news.yahoo.com/wisconsin-judge-won-t-order-184825124.html

[mountaineer]

Maricopa County reporting problems with the machines

https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1589994092335071232
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Cronkite News
@cronkitenews
Poll workers at the Burton Barr @PhxLibrary (Phoenix Public Library) wait outside for replacement voting machines. Early this morning, a problem with the machines prevented prospective voters from casting in-person ballots.

9:34 AM · Nov 8, 2022

[Free Vulcan]

Poll workers at the Burton Barr @PhxLibrary (Phoenix Public Library) wait outside for replacement voting machines. Early this morning, a problem with the machines prevented prospective voters from casting in-person ballots.
9:34 AM · Nov 8, 2022

Gosh golly gee I am so surprised.

[mountaineer]

DoBetterAZ.com
@lacenagao
Polling location at 1525 N Power Rd in Mesa, voter reports that only 1 in 15 ballots are being read by the machine.
She is told, “The machines are still warming up, you can drop your ballot in the drop box.”
@MaricopaGOP @stephen_richer you had 2 years to warm up machines.
10:08 AM · Nov 8, 2022

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
🚨Maricopa County Voters🚨
Tabulator malfunctions reported in at least 6 places. DO NOT PUT YOUR BALLOT IN BOX 3 TO BE “TABULATED DOWNTOWN.”
Maricopa's downtown tabulators will not count votes today. Stay until fixed OR find next nearest polling place: http://Maricopa.vote
10:09 AM · Nov 8, 2022

[Right_in_Virginia]

Boo-yah!

Let's hope it's a good day.

 

[Right_in_Virginia]

DoBetterAZ.com
@lacenagao
Polling location at 1525 N Power Rd in Mesa, voter reports that only 1 in 15 ballots are being read by the machine.
She is told, “The machines are still warming up, you can drop your ballot in the drop box.”
@MaricopaGOP @stephen_richer you had 2 years to warm up machines.
10:08 AM · Nov 8, 2022

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
🚨Maricopa County Voters🚨
Tabulator malfunctions reported in at least 6 places. DO NOT PUT YOUR BALLOT IN BOX 3 TO BE “TABULATED DOWNTOWN.”
Maricopa's downtown tabulators will not count votes today. Stay until fixed OR find next nearest polling place: http://Maricopa.vote
10:09 AM · Nov 8, 2022

Rich Baris "The People's Pundit"
@Peoples_Pundit

Turnout is very heavy, very early in Maricopa. This is a real serious problem. No voter should ever have to leave their ballot in a box in the corner of the room and expect it to be handled properly at some point later.

It's a chain of custody nightmare and easily exploitable.

9:34 AM · Nov 8, 2022   ·Twitter Web App

[Wingnut]

The steal has started in AZ
Reports out of Maricopa county of Machines “not working” and ballots being “misread”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6NNmuPtX3M&ab_channel=jackparlevliet

[Right_in_Virginia]

"This started with a single location. Then a few. Now, it's sounding as if this is widespread and very serious.
Long lines in Anthem, Arizona with Poll Workers explaining that the @maricopacounty machines are not working.
Do not get out of line!"  (Video)

https://mobile.twitter.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1589989089809268736

[Free Vulcan]

OK GOP, with Katie Hobbs as SOS, it's time to walk in with the lawyers and start screaming 'ballot security' and 'chain of custody' loudly in the media, Maricopa county, and right to her face.

The Gov and AG need to be on point too. This is unacceptable BS.

[Wingnut]

OK GOP, with Katie Hobbs as SOS, it's time to walk in with the lawyers and start screaming 'ballot security' and 'chain of custody' loudly in the media, Maricopa county, and right to her face.

The Gov and AG need to be on point too. This is unacceptable BS.

They (election officials) had ONE damn job for the last two years.  WTF man.  Go back to hand counts for Christ's sake.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec

The Democrats didn’t do what they needed to do in Early Voting. Their margins are thin across the country. Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia - you must show up today. We are looking at the possibility of a generation realignment

10:00 AM · Nov 8, 2022   Twitter Web App

[Right_in_Virginia]

They (election officials) had ONE damn job for the last two years.  WTF man.  Go back to hand counts for Christ's sake.

   --- And same day voting.

[Free Vulcan]

https://twitter.com/kaslakab/status/1589990411950432256

[Right_in_Virginia]

Will Chamberlain
@willchamberlain

Just voted

The Virginia Dems were nice enough to hand me a sample ballot outside the voting place, so I just voted against everything they wanted

9:50 AM · Nov 8, 2022   ·Twitter Web App

[Free Vulcan]

Mercer (county NJ) has countywide vote tabulator glitch, but voting by machine continues

Voting machines throughout Mercer County are facing technical difficulties this morning, but no voters are being turned away and machine votes are still being cast.

The issue involves a programming glitch with optical scanners, which count votes after ballots are filled out.

Programmers from the voting machine manufacturer, Dominion, are in site trying to work through the problem, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed.

“There is a slot on the top of the scanner and voters can vote and are voting manually,” said Mercer County Clerk Paula Sollami Covello.  “We are asking poll workers to use the official ballots because they can still vote them manually, and place them in the slot in the scanning machines and we will count them manually.”

https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/mercer-has-countywide-voting-machine-glitch-but-voting-by-machine-continues/

[Free Vulcan]

Florida Department of State Rejects Federal “Election Monitors” – Puts Biden’s DOJ On Notice

The Florida Department of State warns Biden’s DOJ that if any federal “election monitors” are sent into polling places, State resources will be dispatched “to ensure that no interference with the voting process occurs.”

After the Department of Justice announced that they will send “election monitors” to Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, the DeSantis administration has issued a strongly-worded response.

On Monday, Brad McVay, General Counsel with the Florida Department of State, wrote a letter to the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division:

“Earlier today, the Florida Department of State received copies of your letters to Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in which you seem to indicate that the Department of Justice will send monitors inside polling places in these counties. We also understand you sent a similar letter to Palm Beach County,” McVay wrote.

He then stated that federal election monitors are not permitted under Florida law:

“Section 102.031(3)(a) of the Florida Statutes lists the people who ‘may enter any polling room or polling place.’ Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list.”

https://www.theflstandard.com/florida-department-of-state-rejects-federal-election-monitors-puts-bidens-doj-on-notice/

[mystery-ak]

A 'Last Minute Change' Is Already Delaying Vote Counting in Philadelphia
Katie Pavlich

 |  November 08, 2022 10:00 AM

Within hours of polls opening in Pennsylvania Tuesday morning, a "last minute change" is already causing vote count delays in notoriously corrupt Philadelphia. Before the change this morning, votes in the city were expected to be fully counted by Wednesday morning.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

    City officials voted Tuesday morning — as polling places opened and the vote count began for the midterm elections — to reinstate a time consuming and labor-intensive process for catching double votes that will slow how quickly they can report results.

    If Pennsylvania’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race is as close as expected, a wait for results out of the state’s largest city is sure to shine a national spotlight on Philadelphia, similar to after the 2020 presidential election.

    The city commissioners, the three-member elections board, voted 2-1 to reinstate what is known as poll book reconciliation — a means of flagging mail ballots submitted by voters who also voted in person — during an emergency 7 a.m. meeting.

    It was a sudden reversal of a decision they made less than a week ago and came a day after a city judge, responding to a Republican lawsuit, said they could move forward without the process.

more
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/11/08/here-we-go-vote-counting-in-philadelphia-is-already-delayed-n2615635