US midterms: Embarrassing aftermath - UK Column News - 11th November 2022

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- Senate elections: Most results now in
- Predicted red wave (swing to Republicans) turned out to be a red ripple
- Slow-walking the vote count in western swing states of Nevada (likely to go to Republicans) and Arizona (possibly to go to Democrats)
- Runoff due on 6 December in Georgia
- Massive implications for US foreign and domestic policy
- House elections: results of 26 Congressional district seats still outstanding, from Maine and western states
- Bad news for Democrats: Biden more likely to be hobbled in second half of his term
Gubernatorial elections: again, Arizona and Nevada yet to declare, along with Alaska
- Arizona has a Democrat-run voting system that means it now has Election Week or even Election Month, no longer Election Day
- Chaos with vote-counting machines — curiously, mostly in Republican-dominated precincts (constituencies)
- The Federalist: Arizona's elections are an international embarrassment
- Oddly enough, the state election commissioner’s name is Bill Gates
- “Election deniers” vindicated by the Arizona débâcle
- Clip: Kari Lake (neck-and-neck Republican candidate for Arizona governorship) tells Newsmax's John Bachman Now that walk-in votes by the distrustful, last to be counted, are likely to be heavily in her favour: “We can’t have Arizona constantly holding up the [national] election results”
- Truckloads of ballots still arriving at Arizona count centres; not known how many valid ballots are still waiting to be counted; huge scope for fraud
- Arizona scrapped requirement to vote in local precincts in favour of unwieldy centralised voting hubs “because of Covid”
Ohio: huge swing to Republicans with election of a new breed of young intellectuals typified by J.D. Vance
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-11th-november-2022

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