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The Final Numbers from Arizona (13 Days After Election Edition)
You guys: On Monday, November 21, all counties in the state of Arizona finally finished counting the Election Day votes. And it only took them 13 days. In fact, two of the contests were so close that automatic recounts were triggered. Those won’t begin until after December 5 … another 14 days away.
Want to restore trust in the process, Arizona? Reform the bad election laws. For the last time, let’s go to the big board…
Governor
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Kari Lake (R) | 49.7% | 1,270,774 |
| √ Katie Hobbs (D) | 50.3% | 1,287,890 |
U.S. Senator (race called for Sen. Kelly, Friday, Nov. 11)
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Blake Masters (R) | 46.5% | 1,190,643 |
| √ Mark Kelly (D) | 51.4% | 1,315,771 |
Secretary of State (race called for Adrian Fontes, Friday, Nov. 11)
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Finchem (R) | 47.6% | 1,200,411 |
| √ Adrian Fontes (D) | 52.4% | 1,320,618 |
Attorney General
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abe Hamadeh (R) | 50.0% | 1,254,102 |
| * Kris Mayes (D) | 50.0% | 1,254,612 |
Treasurer (race called for Kimberly Yee, Saturday, Nov. 12)
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| √ Kimberly Yee (R) | 55.7% | 1,390,135 |
| Martin Quezada (D) | 44.3% | 1,107,036 |
Superintendent of Public Instruction
| Candidate | Percentage | Vote Total |
|---|---|---|
| * Tom Horne (R) | 50.2% | 1,255,977 |
| Kathy Hoffman (D) | 49.8% | 1,247,009 |
None of the percentages shifted over the past week. Of course, these numbers are unofficial until certified on December 5. But we’re not out of the weeds yet!
An automatic recount is triggered when opposing candidates finish within 0.5 percent of the total votes. This applies to two races: Attorney General and Superintendent of Public Instruction. In the first, Kris Mayes (D) defeated Abe Hamadeh (R) by a mere 510 votes. In the second, Tom Horne (R) defeated incumbent Kathy Hoffman (D) by 8,968 votes.
Also, Arizona’s current Attorney General, Mark Brnovich (R), has demanded that Maricopa County officials provide a report on the tabulation machine problems on Election Day. By November 28, the county must detail the specific problems related to the printers at each polling location and how poll workers were trained.
Please note that your humble author sat next to Mark Brnovich in government class at Shadow Mountain High School. We would pass National Review issues back and forth, and drive our liberal teacher crazy with our anti-communist tirades. At the time, I worked as a highly acclaimed bag boy at Safeway. One afternoon, after we annoyed the teacher in class, he came into the store and bought a 12-pack of Meister Brau (a very, very cheap beer). After that, we called him “Meister Brau”; he didn’t like that either.
P.S. I worked with AG candidate Hamadeh at the Goldwater Institute, and AG candidate Mayes was my editor at Arizona State’s student newspaper. Knowing me is apparently a job requirement.
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Socialism and populism are growing for actual, legitimate reasons even though those are mostly poor solutions. You have to solve for that.
The only place where you will ever be a good fit is Principles First. By the way, they are for universal pre-K now. lol
This makes me absolutely insane. Tshibaka has an impressive résumé and was extremely impressive in interviews.
This is one hell of a situation.
Notice that Gary never says original anything about public policy. That crowd is about 90% like that.
This is a good concept for analysis.
Exactly.
I really wish Gary would listen to Mark Levin.
You are out of your mind. You don’t study this stuff.
Can you say something original about public policy in this era or leave this place for Principles First?
I have thought about this over and over and this is the reality.
Everything Moves Left All Of The Time™
Tbiska was the choice of the Alaska GOP.
And ranked choice voting is a scam to help progressivism. It works perfectly every time.
The Duluth Minnesota Democrats, which are basically old Time union type Democrats, not crazy progressives, were so embarrassed by it they got rid of it.
This is my view.
This is my view. These people mostly dislike and are bad at discussing public policy.
#VoteDemocrat
@garyrobbins
https://ricochet.com/podcast/federalist-radio-hour/a-lonely-america-is-a-broken-america/
But how could they possibly conclude that the Dims are producing the LEAST drama?
Good one!
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Principles First is officially for rank choice voting.
There could be a valid argument for some type of ranked choice voting, the problem really comes from how the Dimocrats want to evaluate them: in their favor, of course.
This has been discussed endlessly, here. It’s appropriate for a large group trying to pick out where to go to dinner or something, because it’s uncomplicated and patently transparent. It’s a bad idea in the election system. So no, there is no valid argument for rank choice voting unless you are a progressive trying to rig everything.
Maybe it just needs to be applied to the candidates within a party, i.e. the primaries. At the party’s choice. That’s one valid argument I can think of. But there might be good reasons to not allow it for general elections when there is a party structure, and perhaps not for supposedly “non-partisan” elections either. Although there would be less reason for excluding ranked choice for “non-partisan” elections.
As mentioned though, the real shenanigans don’t seem to be with ranked choice itself, but with how the choices are calculated and evaluated. I can see how the Dims cook that for their benefit (“in round 2, x% of votes are allocated blah blah blah…”), but that doesn’t automatically exclude ranked choice per se. Ranked choice doesn’t require being done the way the Dims choose to (ab)use it. Although it’s true that having the structure to begin with might tend to invite such things. But they do it with “regular” voting too.
This was brought up. You can’t control for good faith enough. It’s their business but I was pretty much persuaded by that.
I don’t think this is accurate. There is only one procedure for it, as far as I know and it has been talked about endlessly in Minnesota. If there were different systems I would be aware of it. They game it by who they run.
What specific example is germane to this discussion?
My argument there would be that the ballot harvesting etc is worse for general elections especially, a bigger problem than the few places that do ranked choice.
The fundamental issue we are discussing is the structure of the ballot not the capture and flow of the individual votes.
Ballot harvesting in Arizona is illegal. Democrats simply repeated went to people’s homes until they got their ballots in.
And of course, when something is illegal, it never, ever happens.
Then it’s Democrat government institutionalized ballot harvesting. Same effect as whatever you or anyone else defines illegal ballot harvesting to be.
If they are getting ballots to the disinterested and the infirmed, that is what it is.
And the utter and total incompetency has disproportionally disenfranchised Republicans.
No comment from the Democrats claiming to be Republicans on that one.