AL Senate Race To Officially End Next Week With Certified Doug Jones Win

Provisional ballots in boxes are stacked before members of the Shelby County probate office count the voted ballots from last week's U.S. Senate election at the Shelby County court house, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, in C... Provisional ballots in boxes are stacked before members of the Shelby County probate office count the voted ballots from last week's U.S. Senate election at the Shelby County court house, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, in Columbiana, Ala. Secretary of State John Merrill says the outcome isn't expected to change. Merrill announced Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, that counties will check write-in votes under a new state law that only requires poll workers to sort through them if the number of write-ins is higher than the winner's margin of victory. There were 22,814 write-ins. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) MORE LESS

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama election officials say they will certify Democratic candidate Doug Jones’ upset victory over Republican rival Roy Moore next week.

The Alabama Secretary of State announced in a statement Friday that the election results would be finalized next Thursday.

Jones defeated Moore on Dec. 12 to become the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Alabama in a quarter-century. Moore was besieged by decades-old accusations of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls when he was in his 30s. He has denied the allegations.

Moore has not conceded the race. In a Thursday fundraising letter to his supporters, Moore said he needs donations to investigate what he calls reports of fraud and irregularities in the election.

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  1. He will never concede and raise money off this until he runs again in 2020.

    Had Trump lost, he’d be doing the same thing.

    There is no state, no country or even political party; there is only them and that is all that matters.

  2. I agree with you that Moore will do this. But it won’t work. In their world, you can’t wash off the stink of a loss. You are forever a loser, and you are tossed aside.

    My theory anyway. Moore can be the petri dish that bears it out. Or the crash test dummy.

  3. Hopefully before 2020, some Alabama father is going to find PedoBoyRoy lurking around his pre-teen daughter’s bedroom window, and give him a 20 gauge salute…

  4. Avatar for philrm philrm says:

    Dear Roy,

    Just fuck off already.

    Signed, God

  5. I think they’re still gobsmaked that after all their voter suppression efforts, Bo Diddler still lost.

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