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US REPUBLICAN ROY Moore has filed a lawsuit to try to stop Alabama from certifying Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of the US Senate race.
The court filing occurred about 14 hours ahead of today’s meeting of a state canvassing board to officially declare Jones the winner of the 12 December special election. Jones defeated Moore by about 20,000 votes.
Moore’s attorney wrote in the complaint filed last night that he believed there were irregularities during the election and said there should be a fraud investigation and eventually a new election.
“This is not a Republican or Democrat issue as election integrity should matter to everyone,” Moore said in a statement announcing the complaint.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told The Associated Press that he has no intention of delaying the canvassing board meeting.
“It is not going to delay certification and Doug Jones will be certified at 1pm and he will be sworn in by Vice President Pence on 3 January,” Merrill said.
In the complaint, Moore’s attorneys noted the higher than expected turnout in the race, particularly in Jefferson County, and said that Moore’s numbers were suspiciously low in about 20 Jefferson County precincts.
Merrill said he has so far not found evidence of voter fraud, but that his office will investigate any complaint that Moore submits.
Moore has not conceded the race to Jones and has sent several fundraising emails to supporters asking for donations to investigate claims of voter fraud.
Jones and Moore were competing to fill the US Senate seat that previously belonged to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Moore’s campaign was wounded by accusations against Moore of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls decades ago.
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“Unusually high turnout in some precincts” Yes Roy,nothing like a paedophile trying to get elected to mobilise people normally apathetic about politics.
@Michael Hennessy:
Can you prove that he’s a paedophile? That’s a pretty serious charge to make without proof.
@Thought for Food: that’s such a childish response that Roy Moore has just tried to f@#k it.
@Michael Hennessy:
“Moore’s numbers were suspiciously low in about 20 precincts”
Yep, people generally don’t want to vote for alleged paedophiles.
@Avina Laaf: apparently nearly half don’t have a problem with it.
@Thought for Food: That is literally your argument for everything here. You never actually make a point.
@Thought for Food: perhaps you could take a libel action against Michael Hennessy on behalf of your judge friend? Or maybe not. What do you think?
@Thought for Food: he didn’t deny it. He and his supporters just said it wasn’t a big deal back then because everybody was doing it
@Remy: yeah, people can live in other places and have the right to vote in Alabama.
@Declan Hegarty: wasn’t one of the girls 14 at the time of the alleged incident?
@Thought for Food: Are you living under a stone?
He has been caught out big time.This was the voters way of saying “we believe those women.”
A nasty and bitter man indeed.Imagine coming before him in court.
Typical entitled Snowflake. He didn’t get his own way so the system must have been rigged.
@Peter King: even the Republican Secretary of state for Alabama said he’s seen nothing that means they should delay the confirmation of Jones
The epitome of a sore loser.
Moore must be secret Democrat….He is the gift that keeps on giving to the Democratic party….Next he will be saying Russia lost him the election….
He does not easily relinquish his sense of entitlement and privilege. It all depends on whether big money will back his legal efforts to impugn the result. It’s all about getting the funding.
The real fraud was watching him trying to convincingly ride a horse.
@Crom Cruach: It looked at one stage that the horse was trying to buck. That would’ve been fun to watch…
Them pesky black Americans turned up to vote..
He may have a case. People have admitted on live TV to committing vote fraud.
@Féach News: Any idea what an operation to bus an additional 20,000 fake voters in to the state would look like? With all those Lunatics floating around just waiting to catch someone? Chances of that being kept secret? And you wouldn’t just need 20k, because you’ve no idea what the gap would be, so you’ve got to go much bigger to make sure there’s no automatic recount according to state law.
@Shane Gleeson: it would look like a normal days commuting
@Shane Gleeson: actually they worked out that it would have to be more like 80,000 to be bused in to be sure to lose him the election. That’s an awful lot of buses being hired without anyone copping it and a lot of silence from a lot of people doing something very illegal AND they’d have to have illegal state ID for people who were registered but would not turn up to vote themselves!!! And what about the bus drivers? Imagine how much money they would make if they came forward to news stations? That’s a lot of silence! Or maybe people just voted.
@Deborah Behan:If you took away the African American votes from that election,you would find that he would have had a landslide of a victory..The margin would have been a whopping 26% ..Isn’t it sad that 63% of white folks voted for that creep ?
@Féach News: you do know that people can live outside of Alabama and have a right to vote in Alabama right? People usually don’t bother going home for a special election or a midterm but this time they did.
@Féach News: Blow out out yer hole
Bye, Bye, Roy “Rogers” Moore. Git on ya hoss and skedaddle outa here, ya varmint.
Haha. Kettle calling the pot black. Fraud was his own.
Sore Loser
Favourite part of this story…. Included in the lawsuit was a note saying that he passed a polygraph test on allegations of sexual misconduct. Not the polygraph itself just a note. Case thrown out obviously
When Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin by wafer thin margins, Jill Stein of the US Green party raised millions of dollars to investigate the result and held up his certification as winner by a month. The Guardian was abuzz with talk the Russians could have tampered with the result and gleefully predicting Trump would lose. I think if Moore has claims, he is entitled to investigate them. The other possibility is that turnout in his areas was low because of claims against him. A defamation lawsuit night clear up the veracity of such claims. He should prepare for that.
@Mártan Ó Conghaile: first of all, Jill Stein did not pay for any investigation. She raised money for a recount in a close election. It’s what’s done. Even in Alabama you get a free recount if it’s close enough. It wasn’t close enough.
Maybe some of the voters were underage. He could know something about this.
4d chess
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