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angelo, there is a media bubble, but it's the right-wing news media that's the bubble: Political Polarization & Media Habits | Pew Research Center, How we evaluated Americans' trust in 30 news sources | Pew Research Center

Vote counting is slow in New Jersey, starting off at only a few percent on Election Day, and now at 30 - 40 - 60% of precincts. Incumbents are getting 70 - 80 - 90% of the vote. Almost like Oregon. :(

I would have liked to see a ranked-choice / preference poll for NY-14. Who would have been the second choice of AOC's voters? MCC's? Badrun Khan's? Sam Sloan's?
 
Absentee Ballot Totals | NYC Board of Elections
  • Manhattan - AD 70, 71 (65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74, 75, 76) (69, 72)
  • Bronx - AD 83, 82, 81, 80 (77, 78, 79, 84, 85, 86, 87)
  • Brooklyn - AD 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47 (43, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58) (59, 60, 64)
  • Queens - AD 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40) (23)
  • Staten Island - AD's done
Postmarking Problems Could Invalidate 1,000s Of NYC Ballots: Pols | Patch
An apparent breakdown at an overwhelmed United States Postal Service has left thousands of absentee envelopes without a postmark, meaning they will be thrown out even though voters mailed them in time, according to party officials.

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The postmarking problem, first reported by WNYC, has a growing number of elected officials, advocate and party leaders urging the Board of Elections to count all ballots received by June 30 — the cut-off for accepting mail-in ballots — even if they don't have a postmark.

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But so far, the governor and legal experts have effectively squashed the idea. Ballots without a postmark will only be counted if they were received before June 23.
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Iv'e posted this on the other thread as well.
A political science professor is asserting that President Donald Trump has a 91% chance of re-election in November against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Stony Brook University professor Helmut Norpoth made this political forecast by using the "Primary Model," an election prediction model that has a proven track record, including accurately predicting five out of the last six elections. Read all about it here.......................................https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-win-2020-election-prediction-model
 

Brenton from a 6' distance on Twitter: "@Taniel Meanwhile, state BOE says it may not have full results from Engel/Bowman race until August?!?! That bodes extremely poorly for November." / Twitter

NYSCEF Home -- I'll look for litigation there.

  • Document List - 511636/2020 - Kings County Supreme Court - Yvette D. Clarke v. Adem Bunkeddeko et al
  • Document List - 154624/2020 - New York County Supreme Court - Suraj Patel v. Carolyn B. Maloney et al
  • Document List - 154676/2020 - New York County Supreme Court - Carolyn B Maloney v. The Board of Elections of the City of New York et al
  • Document List - 26560/2020E - Bronx County Supreme Court - Ritchie Torres v. Tomas Ramos et al
  • Document List - 26568/2020E - Bronx County Supreme Court - In the Matter of the Application of Michael A. Blake v. Board of Elections of the City of New York et al
  • Document List - 26808/2020E - Bronx County Supreme Court - IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF Ruben Diaz v. Frangell Basora et al
In summary:
  • NY-09: Yvette Clarke
  • NY-12: Suraj Patel, Carolyn Maloney
  • NY-15: Ritchie Torres, Michael A. Blake, Ruben Diaz Sr.
All suing each other to ensure that they can check on the vote counting.
 
Another lawsuit, in NY-16, by Rep. Eliot Engel. He's not giving up without a fight.

Document List - 26673/2020E - Bronx County Supreme Court - ELIOT ENGEL v. WESTCHESTER BOARD OF ELECTIONS et al

Rep. Eliot Engel Sues to Be Able to Challenge Absentee Ballots
With all 50,575 in-person ballots counted, Bowman, a former middle school principal backed by Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America, leads Engel by more than 12,600 votes. Absentee ballots, meanwhile, are still being counted, with delays caused by the historic number of absentee ballots cast because of the coronavirus pandemic — around 765,000 distributed in New York City alone. The Board of Elections has said it is not sure how long it will take to finish counting absentee ballots, though the Bowman and Engel campaigns say they’ve been told that it will take until early August.

In New York’s 16th Congressional District, there are more than 12,000 outstanding ballots in the Bronx and 27,382 in Westchester, according to election officials. (Among in-person voters, Bowman got around 15,000 votes in each county, while Engel received 9,607 votes in Westchester and 8,405 in the Bronx.) Westchester County officials expect they will begin counting absentee ballots for the congressional race by Monday. The Bronx County Board of Elections did not respond to a request for comment, but Bowman is leading absentee ballots there, according to his campaign.
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  • Manhattan - AD 70, 71 (65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74, 75, 76) (69, 72)
  • Bronx - AD 83, 82, 81, 80, 84 (77, 78, 79, 85, 86, 87)
  • Brooklyn - AD 41, 42, 44, 46, 48 (43, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58) (45, 47, 59, 60, 64)
  • Queens - AD 26, 27, 28 (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40) (23, 24, 25)
  • Staten Island - AD's done
 
  • Manhattan - AD 70, 71, 72 (65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74, 75, 76) (69)
  • Bronx - AD 83, 82, 81, 80, 84 (77, 78, 79, 85, 86, 87)
  • Brooklyn - AD 42, 44, 46, 48, 49 (43, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58) (41, 45, 47, 59, 60, 64)
  • Queens - AD 26, 27, 28, 29 (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40) (23, 24, 25)
  • Staten Island - AD's done
Weird that they stopped doing 72 then restarted that one.
 
Income Movement | Official Site - it advocates Universal Basic Income, like Humanity Forward and the people of #YangGangForCongress (# in this list)
  • Al Gross AK-SEN -- HF
  • David Kim CA-34 -- HF, IM
  • Liam O'Mara CA-42 -- HF -- Bern
  • Jen Perelman FL-23 -- HF -- Bern
  • Noelle Famera HI-02 -- #
  • J.D. Scholten IA-04 -- HF
  • Mike Broihier KY-SEN -- HF (lost)
  • Charles Booker KY-SEN -- IM -- Bern (lost)
  • Antoine Pierce LA-SEN -- HF
  • Alex Morse MA-01 -- HF -- Bern
  • Robbie Goldstein MA-08 -- HF, IM
  • McKayla Wilkes MD-05 -- IM -- Bern (lost)
  • Russ Cirincione NJ-06 -- HF -- Bern (lost)
  • Daniel Ross NY-02 -- # -- (lost)
  • Grace Meng NY-06 -- HF -- (inc)
  • Melquiades Gagarin NY-06 -- IM -- Bern (lost)
  • Paperboy Prince NY-07 -- # -- (lost)
  • Lutchi Gayot NY-09 -- # -- (lost, < Bern)
  • Jonathan Herzog NY-10 -- IM -- (lost, < Bern)
  • James Felton Keith NY-13 -- IM -- (lost)
  • Badrun Khan NY-14 -- # -- (lost, < Bern inc)
  • Chivona Newsome NY-15 -- # -- (lost, < Bern)
  • Samuel Ravelo NY-16 -- # -- (lost, < Bern)
  • Nate McMurray NY-27 -- HF
  • Tim Ryan OH-13 -- HF -- (inc)
  • Heidi Briones -- OR-01 -- # -- (lost, > Bern)
  • Blair Walsingham TN-01 -- HF, IM
  • Donna Imam TX-31 -- HF
  • Marilyn Strickland WA-10 -- HF -- (Bern)
Count: 29, Bern overlap: 7, Bern competition: 7

Bern = Bernie Sanders faction: BS himself, AOC, Our Revolution, Local Berniecrats, Brand New Congress, Justice Democrats, Courage to Change

With the help of my progressive-candidates spreadsheet, I find 156 candidates in the Bernie Sanders faction.
 
  • Manhattan - AD 70, 71, 72 (65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74, 75, 76) (69)
  • Bronx - AD 82, 81, 80, 84 (77, 78, 79, 85, 86, 87) (83)
  • Brooklyn - AD 42, 44, 48, 49, 58 (43, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57) (41, 45, 46, 47, 59, 60, 64)
  • Queens - AD 28, 29, 30, 32 (31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40) (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
  • Staten Island - AD's done

Confusion at the vote count with nearly 22,000 Queens ballots invalidated — Queens Daily Eagle
Some 175,863 absentee ballots were delivered to Queens residents, and some 88,993 were returned.
The Board of Elections only allows candidates and election attorneys to review copies of ballot envelopes deemed invalid if they receive a court order to do so. A spokesperson for the BOE, Valerie Vazquez, said people who request copies of the envelopes with a court order also receive a notation of the preliminary determination, which explains why an absentee ballot was tossed by election officials. It could be that the envelopes were filled out incorrectly or were not postmarked, she said. Campaigns, usually through election attorneys, can then challenge those disqualifications.

Overall, 21,980 ballots were preliminarily disqualified, according to a handwritten breakdown provided by BOE officials to members of the New Reformers, a political organization that represents a slate of candidates for Democratic district leader positions.
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That's 1/4 of all the ballots that were received.
“New York has some of the lowest voter participation in the country. We should be looking to count every vote, not disqualifying ballots over technicalities,” the New Reformers said in a statement. “New York should be the leader in voter participation, not voter suppression.”

... By Friday morning, the ballot count had ended in a single Queens Assembly District, the 23rd, which covers a chunk of Southeast Queens and the Western portion of the Rockaway Peninsula. The district is represented by Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato.
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Are all those to cover up their unsuitable candidate Groper Joe, or to distract the voting sheeples from the fact?

 
angelo said:
Are all those to cover up their unsuitable candidate Groper Joe, or to distract the voting sheeples from the fact?
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These are primary races, the most important contests in heavily-Democratic or heavily-Republican areas.
  • Manhattan - AD 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76 () (69, 70)
  • Bronx - AD 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86 (77, 78, 79, 87) (83)
  • Brooklyn - AD 44, 49, 51, 54, 58 (43, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57) (41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 59, 60, 64)
  • Queens - AD 29, 30, 31, 32 (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40) (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
  • Staten Island - AD's done
Looks like the State Assembly candidates' vote counting is almost half done.
 
  • Manhattan - AD 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76 () (69, 70)
  • Bronx - AD 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87 (77, 78, 79) (80, 83)
  • Brooklyn - AD 43, 44, 51, 54, 58 (50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57) (41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 59, 60, 64)
  • Queens - AD 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40) (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
  • Staten Island - AD's done

In NY-17: Mondaire Jones Rides Insurgent Wave to a House Primary Win in N.Y. - The New York Times
Mondaire Jones, a progressive candidate supported by the institutional left, was declared the victor in a crowded Democratic House primary in the suburbs north of New York City, all but ensuring that he will join Congress next year as among its first openly gay African-American members.

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“Growing up poor, Black, and gay, I never imagined someone like me could run for Congress, let alone win,” Mr. Jones said. “Indeed, in the 244-year history of the United States, there has never been an openly gay, Black member of Congress. That changes this year.”

Mr. Jones may well be joined in Congress by a second openly gay member: In the Bronx, Ritchie Torres, who identifies as Afro-Latino, is leading a Democratic primary to replace Representative Jose E. Serrano.

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Mr. Jones, 33, often says that “policy is personal,” and his personal story played an integral role in his campaign. In television ads and campaign literature, he recounted his grandparents’ migration north from the Jim Crow South, his upbringing in Section 8 housing in Rockland County and the family’s reliance on food stamps. He has relished his success against competitors from more privileged backgrounds.

“These are people who come from money, obviously,” Mr. Jones said. “Unlike them, I don’t come from money or from a political family. And yet, they underestimated me. We have outmaneuvered them at every stage of this campaign.”

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Mr. Jones won the race even though Mr. Schleifer, a pharmaceutical heir, outspent him by more than five to one. Mr. Jones did however benefit from some independent expenditures on his behalf, including by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

An avowed science fiction fan, Mr. Jones, who had never run for office before, said the trajectory of this race feels oddly familiar.

“Running in this Democratic primary has felt like a story out of a sci-fi novel,” he said.

Which sci-fi novel?

“One that is still being written,” he said.
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The NY-17 candidates had gotten 30,402 in-person votes, and with mail-in votes, that was 49,645 -- the mail-in votes were 2/3 of the in-person ones.

Fractions of the vote: Mondaire Jones 44.6%, Adam Schleifer 17.1%, David Carlucci 15.8%, Evelyn Farkas 11.0%, David Buchwald 5.5%, Asha Castleberry 2.5%, Catherine Parker 1.9%, Allison Fine 1.5%
 
New Jersey's votes are still being counted, bit by bit. So far, the progressive challengers are losing and the incumbents winning.
  • NJ-SEN -- Cory Booker* 89% vs. Lawrence Hamm# 11%
  • NJ-05 -- Josh Gottheimer* 70% vs. Arati Kreibich# 30%
  • NJ-06 -- Frank Pallone* 83% vs. Russell Cirincione# 14% vs. Amani Al-Khatahtbeh 3%
  • NJ-08 -- Albio Sires* 72% vs. Hector Oseguera# 25% vs. Will Sheehan 2%
  • NJ-09 -- Bill Pascrell* 83% vs. Zina Spezakis# 15% vs. Alpasian Basaran 2%
* = incumbent, # = progressive challenger

Progressives are doing better in Texas, however.
  • TX-10 -- Mike Siegel 52%
  • TX-24 -- Candace Valenzuela 60%
  • TX-31 -- Donna Imam 57%
 
Slowly but surely.
  • Manhattan - AD 65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74, 75, 76 () (69, 70, 71, 72)
  • Bronx - AD 81, 82, 85, 86, 87 (77, 78, 79) (80, 83, 84)
  • Brooklyn - AD 43, 51, 53 (50, 52, 55, 56, 57) (41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 54, 58, 59, 60, 64)
  • Queens - AD 33, 34, 35, 38 (36, 37, 39, 40) (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
  • Staten Island - AD's done
Looking in the New York Times's election pages, New Jersey's count seems stalled, and Maryland's count has been stalled since June 5.

I checked on Maryland's Board of Elections, and I found 2020 Presidential Primary Election Results with Official 2020 Presidential Primary Election results for Representative in Congress - "Last Updated 07/02/2020 02:34:39 PM"

This is a month after Maryland's primary elections on June 2.

The MD BOE's vote counts are much higher than the NYT's vote counts, and most of those were mail-in votes.

MD-08:
For Jamie Raskin, NYT: 36,578, MD BOE: 111,894 - 110,659, 1,145, 90
MD-05:
For Steny Hoyer, NYT: 62,451, MD BOE: 96,664 - 95,423, 1,123, 118
For Mckayla Wilkes, NYT: 15,409, MD BOE: 40,105 - 37,926, 1,999, 180

MD BOE numbers: total - mailed-in, in-person, provisional
 
Democratic socialist Marcela Mitaynes on the verge of unseating 26-year Assembly incumbent • Brooklyn Paper
Democratic socialist Marcela Mitaynes is votes away from overtaking 26-year incumbent Félix Ortiz in the Sunset Park Assembly race, trailing him by only 131 votes, according to an unofficial tally on Wednesday morning.

The updated ballot count — which was calculated by the Board of Elections and relayed to Brooklyn Paper by candidate Katherine Walsh — cuts Ortiz’s election night lead over Mitaynes by more than half.

The Board of Elections began processing absentee ballots from Assembly District 51 on Tuesday, which encompasses Sunset Park, Red Hook, and a sliver of Bay Ridge. The district houses two contested races: one for the Sunset Park Assembly seat, and another for the District 25 State Senate seat, where Democratic socialist Jabari Brisport narrowly beat out Bedford-Stuyvesant Assemblywoman Tremaine Wright on election night.

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Ortiz’s progressive opponents have slammed him on the campaign trail for taking corporate donations and for allegedly failing to speak up about issues in the community.

“We have been in a housing crisis, and it has been worsened by COVID, yet you continue to take money for the real estate and hotel industry,” said Walsh, an urban planner and climate activist during a live-streamed June 19 debate. “We see in the campaign contributions of your most recent filings that you didn’t receive a single dollar from anyone who’s lived in our district.”
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In-person: Felix Ortiz 2,391, Marcela Mitaynes 1,927, Katherine Walsh 1,282, Genesis Aquino 574 -- total 6,174, FO-MM = 464

But the Board of Elections received over 5,000 absentee ballots:

11:30 am July 15 -- FO: 477, MM: 810, KW 548 -- total 1835, FO-MM = -333 -- IP+Abs = 131
2:30 pm July 15: FO: 611, MM: 1082 -- total 1693, FO-MM = -471 -- IP+Abs = -7

So MM might win.

But half an hour ago, Brooklyn Assemblyman Feliz Ortiz concedes primary to Democratic Socialist Marcela Mitaynes - New York Daily News

Marcela Mitaynes for NY State Assembly 瑪切拉 米坦斯 🌹 on Twitter: "WE WON!🌹 Together, we’re building a movement. I’m humbled by the thousand working class people that built + ran this campaign. Despite the challenges of campaigning during a pandemic, we showed the political establishment that we’re organized + ready to fight for a better world" / Twitter
She describes herself as "Democratic Socialist for Assembly" and "Running to represent my home and fight for my neighbors. Endorsed by @AOC + more"

This is despite the progressive vote in the election being split rather badly -- MM got only 1/2 of that vote.
 
A little bit more.
  • Manhattan - AD 65, 66, 67, 69, 74 () (68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76)
  • Bronx - AD 77, 81, 82, 85, 86, 87 (78, 79) (80, 83, 84)
  • Brooklyn - AD 43, 53, 55 (50, 52, 56, 57) (41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 54, 58, 59, 60, 64)
  • Queens - AD 33, 34, 35, 38 (36, 37, 39, 40) (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
  • Staten Island - AD's done
New Jersey is still stalled. The next primaries are on August 4.

Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush on running for Congress: 'We have to have progressive change' | TheHill
Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush in an interview with Hill.TV's "Rising" on Monday called on Black Americans to bring progressive change to the Black political establishment in the U.S.

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"St. Louis has been in this position for too long, 20 years under the same leadership that says, 'get along to get by,'" Bush told Hill.TV. "Versus helping the people of St. Louis. We...we have to have progressive change it St. Louis; it's just been on a decline."

"Things are starting to pick up, and people are starting to see that candidates like me who just want to love our community and bring change home to our community...it's time for that," she said.
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Her 2018 run was chronicled in "Knock Down The House", and she's trying again this year, raising even more money than she did back then.
 
How Jamaal Bowman, a middle school principal, used the AOC playbook against a 16-term incumbent - The Washington Post
With two neighboring white male incumbents overthrown by liberal, first-time politicians of color in two years, the upstart left wing of Democrats seems to be proving AOC’s win was not a fluke.

This election cycle, the waves of leftist rabble-rousing influence have boomed out like an earthquake in concentric circles, from Ocasio-Cortez’s district (where she is headed toward reelection despite well-funded primary challengers) to Bowman’s, and — more surprising still — deep into the wealthy suburbs of Westchester along the Metro North. There, another black liberal and first-time candidate, 33-year-old attorney Mondaire Jones, won the hotly contested open seat vacated by 83-year-old Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D) in the even more suburban 17th Congressional District, which is 60 percent white.

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Like many black men who grew up like he did, Bowman can cite his first beating by a police officer, an incident he said he spent many years trying not to think about. He was 11 and “was simply horseplaying and giving a little back talk,” he said. “That led to me being thrown up against a wall, thrown to the ground, nightstick to the back, face dragged against the floor, and my mother and I felt like we didn’t have any recourse.”

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The liberal wave leaned so far left this cycle that Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez in Brooklyn faced a primary challenge from Paperboy Love Prince, a 27-year old rapper whose name appeared exactly like that on the ballot, who prefers “futurist” and “Team Love” to “progressive,” who aimed to be the first non-binary member of Congress, and who walked away with 20 percent of the in-person vote. The wave goes beyond New York, too. In New Jersey, Amy Kennedy — yes, a Kennedy! — won by running as anti-establishment.
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Paperboy Prince likes Andrew Yang and universal basic income.

Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones are not honkies, so why did they win in suburbs?
“A lot of people don’t know this, but many of the suburbs in Westchester are majority people of color now,” Shahid said. “What we’re seeing across the country is that working-class people of color are being pushed out of cities because of gentrification and the high cost of rent.”

Like Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman was recruited by the Justice Democrats, who had identified Engel as vulnerable and the 16th Congressional District as ripe for an overhaul. A fellow educator nominated him as a candidate, and Bowman’s campaign benefited from the expertise of two of the staffers who worked on Ocasio-Cortez’s winning campaign.
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New Nonprofit Aims to End School-to-Prison Pipeline – Maryland Matters - Though Mckayla Wilkes lost her bid to unseat Rep. Steny Hoyer MD-05, some of her campaigners have continued to be active. They have founded Schools Not Jails:
Wilkes said that the organization will rally around a combination of policing, criminal justice and education reform, including removing school resource officers from public school campuses.

“My son is in third grade, and there is an armed police officer at his school when he [went] to school every single day before quarantine,” she said. “But it’s still a thing.”

In the immediate, Schools Not Jails has its eyes focused on November’s local board of education and Circuit Court judge elections in Prince George’s and Charles counties.
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Intercepted Podcast: An Interview With Shahid Buttar and a Look at Fascist Movements in the U.S. - podcast with a transcript. "Congressional Candidate Shahid Buttar on Militarism, Surveillance, Climate, Big Tech, and How Nancy Pelosi Has Enabled Trump"

SB is challenging Nancy Pelosi. Ryan Grim on her:
People will tell stories like there’ll be 40 freshmen in a meeting and she’ll go around the room and will point to each one of them and say, “You screwed me on that motion to recommit last Tuesday. I don’t ever want to see it happen again. You hit me on April 3rd with this in committee.” She knows if you voted the wrong way in a committee hearing. And part of that is just this work ethic where she’s putting in these absurd 16, 18-hour days which people have been talking about her and other people like her who just have this kind of maniacal drive. And so, you combine all those different things and you just don’t want to cross her. I was actually talking to somebody about a fight that she’d had with somebody else and his own boss said something like you don’t want to get on the other end of the steely gaze of Pelosi. Like, she just has this, like, raw kind of power that she’s holding in reserve.
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Marcela Mitaynes for NY State Assembly 瑪切拉 米坦斯 🌹 on Twitter: "We defeated the Asst. Speaker of the state assembly, a 26-year incumbent!
Are you ready to organize with me in Albany? I look forward to using the resources of my office to organize alongside workers in their struggles in the workplace + for a govt that puts people over profit" / Twitter

Bella on Twitter: "@marcelaforny This is the first time I have ever seen a fellow Peruvian be elected into a government position in the US. Thank you for you hard work, I’m proud of you and know you will do great things!!!" / Twitter

3 Weeks After Primary, N.Y. Officials Still Can’t Say Who Won Key Races - The New York Times

Like for NY-12, NY-15, and NY-16.
In some cases, the tiny number of ballots counted has bordered on the absurd: In the 12th Congressional District, where Representative Carolyn B. Maloney is fighting for her political life against her challenger, Suraj Patel, only 800 of some 65,000 absentee ballots had been tabulated as of Wednesday, according to Mr. Patel, though thousands had been disqualified.
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In NY-15 and NY-16, the winners of in-person votes, Ritchie Torres and Jamaal Bowman, both won with sizable margins, but they are both waiting for the absentee ballots to be counted.
The primary reason for the delays is the sheer number of absentee ballots: In New York City, 403,203 ballots were mailed for the June primary; as a comparison, just 76,258 absentee and military ballots were counted in New York City in the 2008 general election, when Barack Obama was elected president.

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Officials said they were also hamstrung by outdated technology, including using toner-and-tray copiers, instead of computerized scanners, to handle requests from candidates for copies of absentee ballots; those copies are often used in legal challenges to try to restore disqualified ballots or challenge the legitimacy of others.

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For the June primary, the elections board did not hire additional staff, even as hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots were mailed out to voters.

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The process for counting absentee ballots is labor- and time-intensive: ...
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A big part of it is deciding which ballots are valid and which are not. Counting is fairly easy: run it through a scanner that counts up the votes recorded in it.
 
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