In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff is demanding a recount after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43,000 people voted.
In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff is demanding a recount after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43,000 people voted.
The vote was for a sheriff, the Republican candidate lost by 1 vote and is asking for a recount.
However, the vote was performed using electronic voting machines, so a recount doesn’t do much other than reload the same result.
That’s fine. Let them watch them recrunch the numbers as many times as they want.
Only if they play old modem sounds for 5mins before showing the results
Unleash The Storm!
I’ll be shocked if it doesn’t come out different than before. Voting machines tend to find votes when you “look” hard enough. 😫
Sheriff. Republican.
Why is the sheriff described by it’s political membership? Is everything political in the US?
Apparently, seeing as he lost to a Democrat.
Look up constitutional sheriff movement. I’m not sure if this guy is one of them, but a lot of Republicans seem to want to bring back feudalism, with sheriffs being the highest law in their lands. Little dictators who don’t have to follow the law etc. They’re terrifying, as a non-white person. That’s speaking from the prospective of someone whose skin is the only thing I need to be scared about (ok, maybe non religious takes a distant worry too).
People who aren’t cis males generally have even more to worry about, especially if you check multiple boxes (like say a non white trans woman).
They are elected and so can have oarty affiliation
select count(*) from votes group by candidate;
The headline is also dumb. Any election can be won by 1 vote. Doesn’t matter that 43000 people voted.
The more people you have voting, the less likely it is for the difference to be exactly 1. In an election with 3 voters winning by 1 isn’t notable; in an election with tens of thousands of votes, it’s pretty unusual.
I think it would also depend on the number of candidates, to a lesser extent, too.
Seems like the larger the sample size, the less likely it would be.