The Alabama Secretary of State has these official election returns for U.S. Senate from the special election of December 12, 2017. The percentages barely changed from the election night unofficial totals. On election night Doug Jones was credited with 49.92% of the total. Now he has 49.97% of the total. The official totals are: Doug Jones 673,896; Roy Moore 651,972; write-ins 22,852. The write-ins are 1.69%.
Anyone who wants to see who received write-in votes will be forced to wade through 426 pages of the appendix. There are copies of each county’s write-in tally. The Secretary of State doesn’t care to do the work of going through the county returns and totalling the votes for each person whose name was written in. In principle, that is little different than the State forcing everyone to go through the 428 pages to get the statewide vote for Doug Jones and Roy Moore. All write-ins in Alabama are valid votes, yet the state has chosen to make it easy for the public to know the totals for two particular candidates, but no one else.
The only third party candidate, Ron Bishop, Libertarian, appears to have received 1,123 write-ins. Bullock County only listed the names of individuals who received write-in votes, but did not say how many each got. The results from Dale and Morgan Counties are virtually unreadable. Some counties did not include a county total, but merely the total in each precinct. Those counties are Cullman, Jefferson, Lamar, and Pike.
ONE MORE MINORITY RULE SENATOR IN A SMALL STATE.
2,123,372 PREZ TOTAL VOTES IN NOV 2016.
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PR AND APPV
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366697-alabama-certifies-jones-senate-victory
HAS A VIDEO OF THE CERTIFICATION.
The Secretary of State’s office says it gave the county election officials no guidance about tallying write-ins, and that is why some counties provided countywide totals for various candidates, but other counties did not.
I’m surprised Bishop didn’t get a lot more, even considering that he was a write-in, because I can’t imagine Libertarians in Alabama would be content with Moore, but of course, maybe he did and they just weren’t counted.
Chances are Bishop did get more than he was credited with.
NO standard form for write-ins —
how STONE AGE primitive is the AL regime ???
ie yet to recover from Civil WAR I in 1861-1865 ???
Dale is 11 for Ron Bishop. Morgan… it looks like the list starts with Moe Brooks, then Luther Strange, then two that are entirely illegible, and then Ron Bishop on the 5th line, which would give him 29. Adding those two to your total would give him 1,163.
I counted 1,150 for Ron Bishop total, but it’s possible that I missed some obvious intended votes such as “Roy Bishop”, “Ronald Bishops”, “Don Bishop”, and the like. I didn’t count the ones that were too far off, like “Michael Bishop” and “Zane Bishop”.
Bullock County reported the write-ins by precinct.
Did you notice anything odd about the results for Wilcox County?
Alabama should require write-in candidates to register, and permit the candidate to designate a poll watcher for each election precinct.
WILL THE GERRYMANDER CONGRESS HAVE TO ENACT A 1,000 – 10,000 PAGE ELECTION LAW TO DEAL WITH STONE AGE STATE REGIMES ???
IE – HAVE ARMIES OF USA MARSHALS AND MANY USA ARMY DIVISIONS TO HAVE *LEGAL* (AND NOT AD HOC ARBITRARY LAWLESS) ELECTIONS FOR USA SENATORS AND REPS.
SEE THE 2002 USA HAVA LAW AFTER THE INFAMOUS 2000 PREZ ELECTION IN THE LAWLESS FL STONE AGE REGIME — BUSH V. GORE IN SCOTUS.
“Bullock County reported the write-ins by precinct” – fortunately, there were only 7 write-ins tallied in the county, the lowest in the state (Greene County had 9). So, it wasn’t as horrific as Jefferson County taking up 172 pages of a 430 page PDF.
There’s some good examples of how to not present things online in this PDF.
On the positive side, Baldwin County’s report was relatively easy to follow. Talladega County appears to have attached an image of an excel spreadsheet as their entry.
How many ballots with a write-in name but NO fill-in of write-in oval ???
— and — vice versa ???
— to be a *legal* write-in.
Is the LP total from one county or all of the state? Also, rule of thumb for write-ins–find out the state total and multiply by two. That would be a reasonable total for the write-ins that were not counted.
@BH
Lowndes had 6, Bullock 7, Greene 8, Perry 11, and Wilcox 11. These are five of the six least populous counties, and also all in the Black Belt, which is majority African American and heavily Democratic (the five counties were 79%, 80%, 88%, 79%, 77% for Jones, respectively).
Yeah, I think ‘Ronald Bishop’ and even ‘Don Bishop’ should be included in Ron’s vote count.
Had Ron been on the ballot- he would have gotten a lot more votes for sure.