Sinema's lead over McSally grows to 28K in fight for Arizona Senate seat

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., further expanded her lead Saturday over Republican opponent Rep. Martha McSally for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Sinema had established her lead heading into Friday night, with a 9,517-vote advantage over McSally, which expanded to 20,803 votes after roughly 127,000 votes were counted out of Maricopa County – the state’s most populous county – that same day. On Saturday evening, Sinema's advantage grew to more than 28,000 votes ahead of McSally, with 49.5 percent of the vote for Sinema and 48.2 percent for McSally, CNN reports.

This recent tally covers 88 percent of the total vote, and individual counties in the state are expected to continue updating their vote counts periodically until the votes are certified. Sinema and McSally are vying to take the seat being vacated by retiring Republican incumbent Sen. Jeff Flake. The winner will become the first woman to represent Arizona in the Senate.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kyrsten-sinemas-lead-over-martha-mcsally-grows-to-28k-in-fight-for-arizona-senate-seat

AP: Trump ally Dana Rohrabacher loses to Democratic challenger Harley Rouda

The Associated Press has declared Democrat Harley Rouda to be the winner in his House race against Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., a few hours after Rouda declared victory. In its announcement Saturday evening, the AP said the updated vote count showed Rousa with 52 percent of the vote and around a 8,500-vote lead over Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher, a 30-year incumbent and staunch Trump ally, has yet to concede the race.

Hours earlier, Rouda claimed the race after breaking away with the lead. “After careful consideration of the data provided by the fantastic team at the Orange County Registrar, my staff and I are now confident that we have won the Congressional race in California's 48th district,” Rouda tweeted in the morning.

Rohrabacher has also been known for his pro-Russia views, prompting some critics calling him Russian President Vladimir Putin’s favorite congressman. Rohrabacher isn’t the only longtime California Republican that is in trouble. Rep. Jeff Denham lost his lead to Democrat Josh Harder on Friday, according to the Los Angeles Times. Rep. Mimi Walters, R-Calif., also saw her election night lead of 6,233 votes shrink to 2,020 over Democrat Katie Porter.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ap-trump-ally-dana-rohrabacher-loses-to-democratic-challenger-harley-rouda

Dem Sen Murphy: ‘A Functioning Democracy Requires’ Action to Protect Mueller

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Oh, and one last thing. We get to take to the streets to protect the Mueller investigation, and have these arguments about the future of American health care, because we live in a democracy, where everyone gets a say. And so remember that this Sunday, Veterans Day. Tuesday’s vote represented a dramatic shift in power, in Washington and all across the country. But remember that millions of people across the world never get to vote in an election. Thank a veteran this weekend, because they made sure that we can.”

>>3843044

Well I guess this is why we where asked to watch CA

Pro-Bernie Sanders Arizona Vote Recorder Was Attorney for Fast and Furious Gun Buyer

The Maricopa County vote recorder employing controversial vote-counting practices was the defense attorney for an accused Mexican cartel gun straw purchaser. Maricopa County recorder Adrian Fontes defended Manuel Celis-Acosta in 2011 after an arrest for involvement in the Fast and Furious government gun-running scandal. “Before he was elected in 2016 as Maricopa County recorder, Adrian Fontes was an attorney representing clients in narco-terrorism and firearms scandals,” Fox News reported. Celis-Acosta reportedly transferred thousands of guns to the Sinaloa Cartel. This included the firearm used to kill Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. Democrat Fontes also spoke publicly at a November 2016 event featuring Sen. Bernie Sanders and supporting Hillary Clinton.

Now Fontes faces accusations of employing corrupt vote-counting practices as Maricopa County delivered a late-breaking lead to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in the U.S. Senate race with Republican Martha McSally. McSally led the race for two days until large batches of votes in Maricopa County flipped the lead to Sinema. Several county Republican parties sued county recorders in the state over the vote-counting method Fontes was using. Friday, a judge delivered a resolution that gave recorders until Wednesday to resolve issues like verifying signatures of early ballots dropped at polling locations on Election Day. The Republican Party also “criticized the official for opening emergency voting centers the weekend before Tuesday’s election and for mixing disputed ballots with valid ones,” according to the report. Arizona Republican Party chairman Jonathan Lines called out Fontes ahead of the ruling: “Such a man cannot be trusted to administer elections in Arizona. We are reviewing all legal options at this time and will continue to protect the rights of every legal voter in Arizona.”

Fontes defended Celis-Acosta during the 2011 Fast and Furious-related trial, dismissing his actions as that of a kid and not nefarious. That same year, he defended Emilia Palomina-Robles, who was charged for participation in attempting to “purchase a Stinger missile and other military weapons for a Mexican drug cartel,” according to the report. Fontes downplayed the government’s case, but ultimately the defendant was convicted and sentenced to ten years.

https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2018/11/10/pro-bernie-sanders-arizona-vote-recorder-attorney-fast-furious-gun-buyer/

Soros-Funded Groups Demand Gov. Rick Scott Recuse Himself from Florida Recount

Two organizations financed by billionaire liberal activist George Soros have threatened to take Florida Gov. Rick Scott to court if he doesn’t recuse himself from the state’s recount, which includes his own Senatorial election. “Please issue a public statement that you will recuse yourself and remove yourself from any oversight of the 2018 election immediately or we will have no choice but to seek a formal emergency remedy from the courts,” reads a letter sent to Scott by the two groups, the League of Women Voters and Common Cause.

The letter claims Scott “intentionally politicized governance of the elections” when his used his position to ask the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate possible irregularities in ballot offices in Southern Florida. The League of Women Voters purports to be “nonpartisan, neither supporting nor opposing candidates or political parties at any level of government, but always working on vital issues of concern to members and the public.” Capital Research charges the group has evidenced a “major flirtation with the Democratic Party.” The League documents its funding from Soros’s Open Society Institute. Common Cause is also financed by Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Its mission says it aims “to build a democracy that works for us all.

Scott’s race against Sen. Bill Nelson is one of three elections heading for recount in Florida after all three fell within the margin for a machine recount, and Scott’s 0.15 percent margin will likely also result in a hand recount. Scott’s call for an investigation came amid questions about the slow pace of Broward’s ballot counting and past wrongdoings by the county’s controversial elections supervisor, Brenda Snipes.

A judged ruled that Snipes destroyed ballots too soon from a critical 2016 Congressional race n which former Democratic National Convention (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz won re-election. Snipes was also ordered by a judge earlier this year to change the way she handles mail-in ballots after her office was accused of opening them in secret. Over the weekend, the Miami Herald reported that Snipes’ office mixed 20 rejected ballots with a sampling of 205 valid provisional ones in the current election. The discrepancy was reportedly found only after uproar from the Republican Party resulted in the Broward County canvassing board inspecting those provisional ballots.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/10/soros-funded-groups-demand-gov-rick-scott-recuse-himself-from-florida-recount/

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That's how I am reading it…it is interesting..