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
I’ll be shocked if it doesn’t come out different than before. Voting machines tend to find votes when you “look” hard enough. 😫
Eh, completely unpreventable things such as bit flips have caused weird things in an election before, so it’s not exactly unreasonable to call for a recount when the margin is so small.
Obviously it’s incredibly unlikely to change though, and is a perfect example of why individual votes do matter.
Some states require, or at least allow, a recount when the margin is a single-digit percentage, let alone 1 single vote.
This election clearly deserves a recount.
LOL, could there be a better example?! Right with you.
I guess every individual vote usually matters.
In my area there’s usually only a reason for me to vote when something serious is on the ballot.
This last election seen republicans running completely unopposed in every position. My state usually ends up blue, but if it were up to my district we’d have Hitler cloned and raised on Natty Daddy and Busch Ice on a cattle farm with a Pentecostal Holiness church in his back yard. Donald Trump got 82% of the vote in 2016 and 83% in 2020.
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.
They are elected and so can have oarty affiliation
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).
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.
I think the real tragedy is that 21,500 people voted for something and didn’t get it. This is my biggest problem with FPTP voting: The losers get fuck all.
Seems like the larger the sample size, the less likely it would be.