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| Vote Recount Flips Massachusetts State Midterm Race From Republican to Democrat by 1 Vote |
| 2022-12-16 |
November’s elections not yet completely finalized in stray corners around the country. [EpochTimes] A recount of votes in a Massachusetts state House of Representatives race has placed a Democratic challenger ahead of a Republican incumbent by a single vote after the latter was initially leading following the Nov. 8 elections.Democrat Kristin Kassner, a first-time candidate, is now leading her Republican opponent Lenny Mirra in the race for the newly redrawn North Shore district, a coastal region between Boston and New Hampshire. Prior to the recount, Mirra, a five-term Republican, had led Kassner by 10 votes out of the 24,155 votes that were cast across the district, according to the original certified results from Election Day. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the 10-vote margin is within the legal threshold that allows for a recount, and Kassner later submitted a petition asking for a district-wide recount of the Nov. 8 election. Secretary of State Bill Galvin agreed to the hand recount, which was ordered on Nov. 30, as well as another in the First Middlesex District race. After officials recounted the votes on Dec. 8, the results flipped to put Kassner up 11,763 votes to Mirra’s 11,762. Kassner picked up a total of 19 additional votes, including 10 in Ipswich, four in Rowley, three in Topsfield, one vote in Newbury, and one vote in Georgetown, according to data provided by Galvin’s office (pdf). Mirra, meanwhile, added five votes in Ipswich, three in Topsfield, and one in Newbury. The Republican candidate also lost a single vote in Rowley, according to the data. MIRRA TO CHALLENGE RECOUNT RESULTS Mirra told The Boston Globe that he plans to challenge the results. "Some [ballots] were filled out in pencil, some were filled out with different colored ink, some had stray marks. Some had a name written in the write-in and then an oval filled out," Mirra said. "[The recount] was just really just to ensure that, between humans and machines, we really caught every vote that was counted," Kassner said. "We thank the tremendous outpouring of people that really got involved and mobilized to go through this process this weekend. It’s really a true test of democracy." The results have yet to be certified by Gov. Charlie Baker and a council for review. Elsewhere, Galvin ordered a recount of the First Middlesex District race, when Republican Andrew Shepherd petitioned for one after the initial count saw Democrat Margaret Scarsdale ahead by 17 votes, according to the Globe. The recount showed that Scarsdale’s lead has since narrowed to 11 votes, according to the publication, although there were still more than 4,100 ballots that needed to be counted. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 By old fashioned, I mean dead people voting, dummy voter registrations and drop box shenanigans. No 1AM change all the votes via satellite signal. It’s a State House seat, there isn’t enough money in the coffers for the Bughatti level stuff unless there was up ticket cheating needed. The polling didn’t indicate a need. The problem with the high level cheating is that the more you use the tools, the more people become aware. During WWII, for instance, we had a decided advantage over Japan with respect to naval munitions and fire control. The admirals restricted the use of VT shells to the point of endangering our ships. Whatever they did, there have been no internal whistleblowers. That is tight security. That smacks of serious reprisals. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-12-16 19:04 |
| #3 Old fashioned? Well, okee dokee. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-12-16 14:05 |
| #2 This was more likely old fashioned vote cheating. The numbers are low enough where you could probably detect the cheating with an investigation. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-12-16 08:29 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-16 07:54 |