August 28, 2017

Sore losers: Nevada Republicans can't win regularly scheduled elections, so they're forcing recalls

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/18/1690939/-Sore-losers-Nevada-Republicans-can-t-win-regularly-scheduled-elections-so-they-re-forcing-recalls
"triggering new elections just to undo the results of the most recent election simply because you don’t like them is a lousy way to do democracy, and it effectively demonstrates why Republicans deserve their minority status. They can’t sell their candidates or their ideas to the electorate, so they’re attempting to trigger (historically) lower-turnout special elections in the hope it will give them more control over who shows up at the ballot box (although recent special election results suggest Republicans are screwed in that regard, too).  We won’t know until late October or early November whether these efforts to trigger recalls will be successful, but the mere fact that Republicans are attempting this farce is both troubling and an insult to these districts’ voters, who sent the candidates of their choice to Carson City as recently as last fall."