Recount ordered in tight Boebert, Frisch House race in Colorado

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) ordered a mandatory recount in the state’s third district on Wednesday after a razor-thin midterm election race between incumbent Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) and her challenger Adam Frisch (D).

The secretary’s office officially announced the recount, required because the vote differential between Boebert and Frisch is within 0.5 percent of the leading incumbent’s total portion of votes, this week amid large-scale expectations that it would occur.

Colorado law calls for a recount whenever the differential is within that small margin of the winner’s total vote.

Boebert won last month’s midterm election with 50.08 percent of the vote to Frisch’s 49.92 percent, with the Democrat conceding the race.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/recount-ordered-tight-boebert-frisch-132534203.html

[Cha]

1. We heard about this recount

awhile ago.. I guess it's just official now.

Adam Frisch has already Conceded.. he said he thought there wasn't a chance to find enough votes foe him

But, by some miracle.. I've read it doesn't matter if he conceded or not..

So damn Close!

[Ohio Joe]

2. Yeah, conceding does not matter...

But sadly, he is almost certainly correct. Elections here are run pretty well and it’s just too many votes. My understanding is that recounts here rarely change the results by double digits so triple digits is just too much.

[Cha]

4. And, with that.. the good news

is in Arizona.. there's a recount for Kris Mayes who is 510 votes ahead of the magat for AG!

I hope Adam Frish runs again in 2 years.. I like him.

[summer_in_TX]

5. I hope so too.

Sadly, the reality of campaigning for office means most losing candidates are left with significant debt and cannot afford to run again. They have to consider things like their kids' ability to go to college and their family's ability to weather retirement.

We ought to figure out a way to help them retire campaign-related debt and consider a way to give them a bit of a war chest to encourage them to run again.

[Cha]

13. I'm sorry for those who are left with

so much deft.

I read that Adam Frisch bankrolled his own campaign with $2 Million. He hasn't decided if he'll run again..

Is Adam Frisch running against Lauren Boebert in 2024? Here's what we know

https://news.yahoo.com/adam-frisch-running-against-lauren-001241881.html

[dsc]

3. Barring the very unlikely event of a systematic error

vs a bunch of random errors, 550 is too many votes for a recount to overcome. Think of this as counting a million pennies 1000 at a time. It is perfectly reasonable to think the individual counts of 1000 could be off by a penny or even two but those random errors would be in both directions and serve to cancel each other out. Thus the 1000000 pennies would be very unlikely to be off by 1000 even if every individual count was off by 1.

[grantcart]

8. Indeed their is a 50/50 possibility that her lead increases

[royable]

15. Actually not quite 50 or 50 on either side of the slash, since the possibility exists...

that the lead might not change by even a single vote.

But one can always hope for something to be found that upsets the current lead considerably.

[niyad]

6. I can hear qbert screaming now.

[lees1975]

7. Would the Republican candidate in this race have graciously conceded like Frisch did

if he'd won by just over 500 votes?

[rubbersole]

9. Rigged! Fraud! Soros! Laptop! Dominion!

[Mr. Evil]

10. The safest bet in the history of bets.

In other words, not a chance in hell.

[packman]

11. Oh, Great Lord - PLEASE, PLEASE - make it happen

I will break open that 87' Thunderbird I've been keeping behind the furnace and drink many, many glasses.

[Kennah]

12. Very rare for a recount to reverse an outcome

[republianmushroom]

14. LIKE

[Trueblue Texan]

16. True...most recounts don't change the outcome...

...but sometimes they do. Al Franken Senate race.