Possible recount in Alabama senate race

The Hill:
Alabama Republican Roy Moore is refusing to concede in Tuesday's special Senate election, which has been called for Democrat Doug Jones.

Moore and his campaign are holding out hope as the final ballots are cast in case the margin dips to 0.5 percent or below, triggering an automatic recount.

It's unclear whether that will come to pass, as Jones led Moore by 1.5 percent into late Tuesday night. But it's clear that no winner will be certified until at least Christmas.

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill told reporters during an impromptu Tuesday night press conference in his state capitol office that the state will direct counties to count provisional ballots, absentee ballots and military ballots.

Those final numbers will be due to Merrill's office by Dec. 22, after which the results will be certified sometime between Dec. 26 and Jan. 3 of next year.

If the final numbers show a tight enough margin, the state's recount provision is automatically triggered. If the margin is outside of that trigger, either campaign could request a recount. As long as that campaign is willing to put up a bond and pay to cover the cost, the state will recount the votes.
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Moore suffered from a media-driven and self-induced voter suppression effort that probably led to his defeat with write-in ballots for other candidates that were more than Jones's margin of victory.  Jones could have never won this race on the issues.  He needed the character assassins to help him suppress conservative turnout and the media and Moore were up to that challenge.  The point is that Democrats and teh media should not look at this race as a swing to the left by any means.

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