On April 17, the last unchallenged ballots were counted in New York’s special election for U.S. House, 20th district. Democratic-Working Families-Independence nominee Scott Murphy leads Republican-Conservative nominee James Tedisco by 273 votes. However, there are still approximately 1,200 challenged ballots to be disposed of.
A pattern has developed recently that when a major party challenges ballot status for a minor party or independent candidate in the same race, the challenging major party loses the election. This appears to be true in the New York election (assuming Murphy does indeed win), because Republicans and Conservatives had challenged ballot status for the Libertarian Party’s nominee Eric Sundwall (Sundwall had then endorsed Murphy).
The pattern also held up in 2008, in both Pennsylvania and Maine. In 2008, Pennsylvania Republicans unsuccessfully challenged Bob Barr’s ballot position, and McCain subsequently lost Pennsylvania. In Maine, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Tom Allen had challenged the only independent in that race, and Allen went on to lose the election overwhelmingly.
One more gerrymander district election.
Half the votes in half the gerrymander districts = about 25 percent evil and vicious indirect minority rule by the party hack oligarchs.
Democracy NOW via P.R.
No vacancy elections needed — have the candidates / incumbents have rank order lists of replacements during a term of office.
It seems a veery strange statistical anomaly that evry time a republican/conservative challenges a democrat/liberal in an election that the vote goes against them. There should be the occasioal victory for them. That never seems to happen regardless of the race. That makes no sense because random chance says that at least once they should have the race go in their favor. It makes you wonder is ilogic or the way ballots get counted?