Just to elucidate very briefly upon a much-watched contest in the Deep South (Georgia), whose result now seems all but certain, yet has nevertheless been left up in the air by a candidate's refusal to concede on election night...
Though Stacey Abrams - on the surface, to all appearances - appears to bear all the hallmarks of what we've all come to know through our own fraught life-experiences as 'a sore loser', appearances as we all well know can at times be awfully deceiving. And, clearly, having bothered to say that, I'm strongly intimating that this is one of those times...
And most assuredly it is. For if there was EVER what has traditionally been known as a
'conflict of interest' in a candidacy, THIS IS IT...with spades. Reflecting, if on a far less significant scale, the now ever-infamous then Floridian Secretary of State Kathleen Harris from Florida's equally-infamous and all-determining 2000 presidential election contest/counting/result, Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp's effective meddling with the ballot - to wit the illegal, state-sanctioned striking off as invalid many thousands of potential votes...before they were even counted (through traditional southern disenfranchisement tactics of black American voters)...-
...means that he should have been - so should now be (a little late in the piece, obviously) automatically disqualified from the contest...or, having now been (effectively) all but elected, should be impeached (i.e. removed from his position) and forced, without further ado, to account for his illegal conduct, irrespective of whether he then is allowed to contest an additional run-off vote (as the Abrams' campaign is calling for). But I see it as unlikely a run-off election has already been triggered, as Stacey Abrams is apparently asserting, since that would surely only be necessitated by Kemp achieving less than half the votes, and he clearly has thus far managed a whole lot more than that...
*I refer of course to Jack Kemp, a Republican politician quite simply without peer in recent United States history, who died nine years ago and will be well-nigh impossible to ever replace.
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