Kansas conservatives lose -- again -- after abortion rights recount

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Ja'han Jones

Kansas conservatives were just taught a valuable lesson: No means no.

On Sunday, officials concluded the partial recount of a landslide, statewide vote rejecting a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the legislature to ban abortion completely. And the recount predictably affirmed the results: Kansans resoundingly declined the amendment.

Nearly 60% of voters opposed the so-called Value Them Both amendment during a referendum on Aug. 2, but conspiracy theorists supportive of former President Donald Trump’s lies about fraudulence in U.S. elections successfully demanded a recount.

According to The Kansas City Star, the recount “was requested last Friday by Melissa Leavitt, a Colby resident who has testified to the Kansas Legislature about 2020 election conspiracy theories.”

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/kansas-abortion-recount-rcna44201?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

[Eugene]

1. KC Star: Give it up, Mark Gietzen. You can't Donald Trump your way out of Kansas abortion vote

Give it up, Mark Gietzen. You can’t Donald Trump your way out of Kansas abortion vote (Kansas City Star Ed. Board)

That’s probably wishful thinking, however, now that one of the two anti-abortion activists behind the unnecessary retabulation has already said he wants a recount of the recount.

How absurd. Mark Gietzen, a Wichita businessman who leads the Kansas Coalition for Life and a hard-right group known as the Kansas Republican Assembly, said he plans to sue the state to force them to count ballots all over again, thanks to a counting delay over the weekend in Sedgwick County, one of the nine in which votes were recounted.

https://news.yahoo.com/mark-gietzen-t-donald-trump-182213244.html

[bullimiami]

2. Anyone who wants an exceptional recount should be forced to pay for a statewide recount.

This picking on the precincts they don’t agree with is bullshit.

[Eugene]

3. They're trying to stiff one of the counties, insisting they recount the recount.

They are also suing the state to force a statewide recount.

https://apnews.com/article/kansas-abortion-vote-recount-e874f56806a9d63b473b24580ad7ea0c

[bullimiami]

4. They are welcome to it. Cash up front. State paying? Uh, no.