Wow, RWer's just can't accept they lost in Alabama
Q: Did voters in Alabama’s special Senate election get “caught voting multiple times with fake IDs”?
A: No. The Alabama Secretary of State’s office has received no such report.
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Alabama elected its first Democratic U.S. senator in 25 years on Dec. 12 in a narrow victory over a Republican candidate who had been beset by allegations of sexual misconduct.
The next day, a popular story on Facebook claimed that 60,000 votes cast in a heavily Democratic area might be invalid. The story was flagged by Facebook users as potentially false. It is.
Jefferson County, which includes the city of Birmingham, voted overwhelmingly in favor of Democrat Doug Jones. Of the 219,541 people who voted in the county, 68 percent voted for Jones and 30 percent voted for Republican Roy Moore, according to the unofficial numbers from the secretary of state.
The Alabama Secretary of State’s office hasn’t received reports of voter fraud of any significant scale, said Communications Director John Bennett, and it has heard of nothing that would sway the outcome of the election.
The Alabama Secretary of State’s office hasn’t received reports of voter fraud of any significant scale, said Communications Director John Bennett, and it has heard of nothing that would sway the outcome of the election.
The false story began by claiming: “The FEC has announced that it may have to recommend invalidating more than 60K votes from the Birmingham area to the Alabama Secretary of State.”
But the Federal Election Commission enforces federal campaign finance law; it does not have jurisdiction over voting irregularities in statewide elections. The Alabama Secretary of State’s office does oversee elections in Alabama, but it has received no reports of widespread voter fraud in Birmingham, Bennett told us.
The made-up story later uses a quote it claims was posted on the conservative news site Breitbart, but the quote didn’t actually appear on that site. And the link provided goes to a picture of donkey poop.
The story originated on a website called Reagan Was Right, which describes itself as satirical and includes a disclaimer that says: “Everything on this website is fiction.”
But the story was picked up and posted by severalothersites that have no such disclaimer.
Editor’s note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebook to help identify and label viral fake news stories flagged by readers on the social media network.
Sources
“Doug Jones elected Alabama Senator; Roy Moore won’t concede: What we know today.” AL.com. 13 Dec 2017.
McCrummen, Stephanie and Reinhard, Beth. “Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14, he was 32.” Washington Post. 9 Nov 2017.
“BREAKING: Black People In Birmingham Caught Voting Multiple Times With Fake IDs.” Reagan Was Right. 13 Dec 2017.
Bennett, John. Communications director, Alabama Secretary of State. Interview with FactCheck.org. 13 Dec 2017.
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Get over it guys, you lost in Alabama, Virginia and, North Carolina.
What was lost again ?
From what I've seen so far.....TRUMP is still President....and still doing things in DC.
You need to catch up,
. The problem the Right has right now isn't so much here in the main land but, in places like Puerto Rico, citizens of that small island territory of the United States just got told by the Congress that they are basically on their own, after two hurricanes decimated the island and, the U.S. has been slow or, negligent in sending them help so, what does that mean for Republicans? The island of Puerto Rico is small but, it has strong roots in its people, those people have a strong voter base in 16 states and, yes, they can vote in the U.S. elections legally, they have been advised by the governor of Puerto Rico NOT to vote for any Republicans in 2018 or, any future elections. Now, I know that it seems like a nothing right now but, consider this, if they don't vote for Republicans in those 16 states, which includes Florida, one of the states with a very high Electoral College what effect do you think that will have on 2020?
You didn't read the whole post, I said IN 16 STATES, does that sound like I'm talking about voting IN Puerto Rico?
Did I mention the mayor???? No, I said the GOVERNOR of Puerto Rico, you know, the guy who was on Trumps side until recently.
Time to catch up.
So, you start with Alabama, add North Carolina and Virginia........then add Puerto Rico. Keep throwing........Something will stick eventually!
Sure, keep thinking that, see what it gets ya Nov. 2018.
Ok.
When you settle on a topic for this discussion, let me know.
The Democrats will be running on raising taxes and lowering GDP back to what Obama said was going to be the norm in 2018 and 2020. LOL!!!
I mean what else do they have? They replaced Democrat Governors with a Democrat Governors in Virginia and New Jersey. Sounds more like those wins could be compared to a tourniquet instead of a victory. I guess Moore's loss was the only real gain they had. They still have over one thousand or more political positions to win just get back where they were before Obama became President. By the way, Trump didn't win Puerto Rico, Virginia or New Jersey. Puerto Rico favored Clinton at 70% even though they can't participate in electing a President on the island, why do you think they have left it to all its corruptness and financial as well as infrastructure disaster long before any hurricanes?
Puerto Rico was a disaster long before Maria ravaged the island
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I know the Left are searching under every rock to find something they can go with, but repairing Puerto Rica isn't the solution, starting from scratch is the solution and it takes time to do that.
Puerto Rico's debt-plagued power grid was on life support long before hurricanes wiped it out
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The people will love the Republicans by the time this is over!!!!
By the way, I don't recall anyone crying about Moore losing the election from anyone on this site, do you?
Liberals need to "Catch up" as you say. They've been losing for 7 years or so now.
In case you need a reminder on when it started....2010, 2010, 2010, 2010 ! Haza !
Wasn't Obama, Hillary, Schumer, Pelosi and Reid in charge back then ?
Reids gone !
Hillary is Gone !
Obama is Gone !
How is Chucky and Nancy going to make it better for Liberals again ?
The absolute best thing for Dems would be to embrace Doug Jones victory as a path to relevance once again. But we all know that will never happen, the far left has way too much contempt for southern Democrats.
I'm over it! The way the cookie crumbles and the mop flops!
The seat will go back to a Republican......no problem!
Still plenty of time to find another prominent teavangelical child molester to run.
Well, I gotta hand it to the liberals with their assassination .....should be a movie!
I find it telling you made that comment.
Liberals didn't force Roy Moore to coerce a 14 year old into a hand job.
Well there's certainly no Commandment against it ... but how would I know? My name is Hal A. Lujah, not glory gloryhole hallelujah.
That is real funny coming from people that still can't accept their candidate lost the presidential election over a year ago. Not only haven't the liberals accepted the liss they are still making excuses as to why their shitty candidate lost.
No, I accepted the defeat, I even predicted it when they were all still in the primary's. What I Don't accept is what is happening now as a result of the election and, if you do, you need to move to Russia.
That makes two of you. You and Mikey Moore ....
I'm still waiting for all the liberals who promised to move out of the USA when Bush was elected the first time in 2000 to move out but alas they lied. Some of them even doubled down and promised to move out again in 2016 if Trump won. But alas they lied again.
Some liberals have a really bad habit of lying. Who knew?
Absolutely shocking to them that a teavangelical child molester lost to a democrat.
I know right!
And, even now they can't accept that the support for Republicans and, Trump is disappearing faster than ice on a summer day.
I know that you care what happens to us, but good news.
The state has provided a safe zone for us with all expenses paid funded by the DNC.
They can't handle it so bad they are rioting.
Oh wait. They can handle reality unlike LW Moonbats.
No protesting and no rioting. That's for the light weights. They don't know how business is conducted, so they take to the streets like idiots. It's their entertainment, don't you know?
Hey, I hear there's a protest happening Fri night. How come? I don't know. Well, I am going!
I don't think they know. CNN and NBC haven't told them yet.
It's the in thing these days and sooooooooooo PC!
And, what truly amazes me is the time it takes these idiots to travel to the location and the time spent there. Don't they have any jobs?
Oh, I know, they are either on welfare or on unemployment. None of them appear to be independently wealthy! Maybe, student loans which they have no intention of paying back.