2022 midterm election thread

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Bass pulls ahead of Caruso in latest vote count for L.A. mayor
Source: Los Angeles Times
Mail-in votes are helping Rep. Karen Bass pull ahead of developer Rick Caruso in the primary election for Los Angeles mayor.

Bass leads Caruso, 41% to 38%, respectively, according to results released Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.

Election officials continue to count mail-in ballots, and the final tally won't be known for days or weeks. The next update from the county is expected Friday.

Both candidates are assured of a spot in the Nov. 8 run-off because they are the top-two vote-getters in the field.
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N.M. Supreme Court intervenes after GOP commission refuses to certify primary results
by Rebecca Shabad and Zoë Richards
June 15, 2022

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(NBC) WASHINGTON — New Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a GOP county commission to certify primary election results after the panel refused to do so, citing concerns with voting machines.

Chief Justice C. Shannon Bacon issued an order compelling the Otero County Commission to certify the results of its June 7 election by Friday.

The order came a day after New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, said the GOP-controlled commission was "appeasing unfounded conspiracy theories and potentially nullifying the votes of every Otero County voter who participated in the primary."

In a 19-page filing, Toulouse Oliver had asked that the state Supreme Court order the county commission to certify primary election results in Otero County, whose southern line is near the U.S.-Mexico border.

"At the meeting they identified no deficiency in the election results, but rather made unsubstantiated claims about the voting systems in use throughout the state," Toulouse Oliver wrote.
Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022- ... rcna33684

caltrek's comment: Ok, these guys need to either lead (certify the results) follow (certify the results) or get out of the way. This “well we can’t certify because we are not absolutely sure there was positively no fraud involved,” in the absent of actual evidence of fraud, is so much bovine excrement. It is clearly calculated to bring us down the road to fascism. Let us hope the ruling of the judge stands and is implemented.
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As Late Mail-in Ballots are Tallied, LA’s Election Results Skew to the Left
by Hillel Aron
June 17, 2022

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(Courthouse News) — As the late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots are counted, Los Angeles’s primary election, held last Tuesday, is looking more and more like a progressive victory.

According to the results of the latest batch of votes tallied by the county clerk and announced on Friday, Congresswoman Karen Bass leads mall developer Rick Caruso by 40,000 votes in the race to become the city’s next mayor. The result is somewhat academic, since the two will face each other in the November runoff. But whereas Caruso woke up Wednesday morning with a robust-looking 5% lead, he now trails Bass by 6.5 percentage points (Bass has 42.9%, while Caruso has 36.3%) — a deficit which appears likely to grow when the rest of the ballots are counted — showing that he has much ground to make up in the next five months.
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In other races, the progressive wave looks even more pronounced. Pakistani-born Faisal Gill is running for city attorney on a platform of police and criminal justice reform. After Friday’s update, Gill holds a four-point lead over his next two closest rivals, Marina Torres and Hydee Feldstein Soto. Torres leads Soto by just 173 votes in the race for second place and a spot in the November runoff.

Kenneth Meija, a former Green Party member, holds a commanding 19-point lead over City Council Paul Koretz in the race for city controller.

Perhaps most surprisingly, two incumbent city councilman are in danger of losing their seats to candidates who were endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America’s LA chapter, both of whom have proposed slashing the LAPD’s budget to pay for housing and social services.
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caltrek wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 11:38 pm N.M. Supreme Court intervenes after GOP commission refuses to certify primary results
by Rebecca Shabad and Zoë Richards
June 15, 2022

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Read more here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022- ... rcna33684

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Here is a follow up to that story:

New Mexico County Certifies Primary Election Per State Supreme Court Order
by Amanda Pampuro
June 17, 2022

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(Courthouse News) (CN) — Four days after voting against certifying its 2022 primary election results, a southern New Mexico county’s election officials voted two to one to certify the election within the state supreme court’s Friday deadline.

Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin cast the Otero County Canvassing Board’s lone dissenting vote, citing vague concerns that the county’s Dominion voting machines were insecure. In addition to repeating unsubstantiated claims of 2020 election fraud putting the wrong president in the White House, Griffin was found guilty of entering a restricted area during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Griffin telecommuted to the meeting from Washington D.C., where he was sentenced to 14 days in jail and fined $3,000 for the charges.

During Friday’s emergency meeting, Griffin reiterated that he had wanted to inspect the voting machines for a modem and to hand-count the ballots.

“I am relieved that the Otero County Commission finally did the right thing and followed their duty under New Mexico law to certify the free and fair results of the 2022 primary election,” said Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver in a statement.
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Republicans flip a Democratic-held House seat in South Texas, at least for now.
Source: NY Times
A U.S. House district in South Texas will send a Republican to Congress for the first time in its 10-year history.

Mayra Flores, a Republican and respiratory-care health aide, scored a significant victory in a special election on Tuesday for the party, which has been trying to capitalize on its successes in 2020 in the Democratic stronghold of the Rio Grande Valley. She will be the first Latina Republican from Texas in Congress.

Ms. Flores defeated three opponents in the special election to replace former Representative Filemon Vela, a Democrat who retired this year before the end of his term. She captured more than 50 percent of the vote in Texas’ 34th Congressional District, according to The Associated Press, and will avoid an expected runoff with Dan Sanchez, a Democrat and former commissioner in Cameron County.
Her win may only be temporary, however.

The special election was held to determine who would fill the remainder of Mr. Vela’s term until the end of this year. Voters in the general election in November will decide who will become the district’s permanent representative beginning in January. Representative Vicente Gonzalez, who currently represents a neighboring district, is the Democratic nominee for November, and is widely favored to win the race against Ms. Flores, who is also running to fill the seat permanently in November.
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Bernie Sanders Backs US House Hopefuls Jonathan Jackson and Delia Ramirez
by Jessica Corbett
June 18, 2022

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(Common Dreams) U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied with Jonathan Jackson and Delia Ramirez, a pair of progressive congressional candidates, in Chicago on Saturday.

"We desperately need more leaders in the Congress who understand the need to stand up and fight against the corporate greed that is running rampant in this country," said Sanders (I-Vt.), arguing that Jackson and Ramirez "are those leaders."

"I was proud to have Jonathan Jackson as my state co-chair in 2020 and I'm proud to endorse Jonathan Jackson for Illinois' 1st Congressional District," the two-time presidential candidate previously said in a statement. "He has long been a fighter for working people and he will be a champion for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal in the Congress."

Jackson—the son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson—is among several Democrats running in a district that has been represented for decades by retiring Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush.
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2022 Generic Congressional Ballot Poll:

Democrats 44% (+2)
Republicans 42%

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2022 #FLGov General Election Poll:

Charlie Crist (D) 48% (+1)
Ron DeSantis (R-Inc) 47%

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If Desantis lost I'd guess he'd be free to run for president but it wouldn't be a very good sign that he could hold onto much of the country....As in get anyone from the democrats to vote for him let alone moderates.
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2022 Generic Congressional Ballot Poll:

Democrats 47% (+1)
Republicans 46%

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