Frisch Concedes to Boebert

Axios reported earlier today that Adam Frisch has conceded to Boebert.

So much for those early calls of her loss.

Update 3:01 p.m.: Axios is reporting that Adam Frisch has conceded to Rep. Lauren Boebert and will not seek a recount. “The likelihood of this recount changing more than a handful of votes is very small,” he said. “It’d be disingenuous and unethical for us, or any other group, to continue to raise false hope and encourage fundraising for recount. Colorado elections are safe, accurate and secure.”

Way to hang tough and not give up in the face of media pressure. The margin of victory is small, but a win is a win.

Sometimes, these things don't go the way the press wants them to.

a reply to: ketsuko

Im going to need some help here.

Can someone please explain why Frisch conceded when the vote tally was clearly in recount territory?

Sub 1000 votes seperated the two candidates

a reply to: JinMI

Even the press was conceding that the narrow margin was still larger than was likely to be overturned in a recount.

a reply to: ketsuko

Why did they allow a MAGA to win?

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: JinMI

Even the press was conceding that the narrow margin was still larger than was likely to be overturned in a recount.

Wait wait wait.

They "predicted" that even a recount would be less than the amount to win....with under 1000 votes seperating the two candidates.....?

I believe that to be unprecedented...

a reply to: JinMI

Recounts have a habit of exposing cheating.

It would be a brave cheat who asks for a recount.

P

a reply to: JinMI

Here's RedState's take on it.

The press hasn't called it yet, but local papers have. Frisch's campaign has thrown in the towel. His concession basically said in not so many words that they did not feel there was any path to victory in a recount. It almost sounded like she had a rare reasonable Democrat as her challenger.

originally posted by: ketsuko
Axios reported earlier today that Adam Frisch has conceded to Boebert.

So much for those early calls of her loss.

Update 3:01 p.m.: Axios is reporting that Adam Frisch has conceded to Rep. Lauren Boebert and will not seek a recount. “The likelihood of this recount changing more than a handful of votes is very small,” he said. “It’d be disingenuous and unethical for us, or any other group, to continue to raise false hope and encourage fundraising for recount. Colorado elections are safe, accurate and secure.”

Way to hang tough and not give up in the face of media pressure. The margin of victory is small, but a win is a win.

Sometimes, these things don't go the way the press wants them to.

It's weird how biased the media is, this has been basically portrayed as a loss for Boebert since election night. The left on ATS talks about it being a conservative echo chamber but perhaps it's because our MSM is so blatantly left there are barely any other places available to discuss politics.

It's almost like they scream vote and participate been seeing those ads since the 90s but they really just want you to vote if you will vote blue. The constant bombardment of one-flavor politics has become obnoxiously boring, so much so they are probably running voters to the conservative side to be contrarian to their persistent unchanging narrative.

I always thought America was built on compromises with the knowledge no one side was gonna rule everything. I don't like when either party has complete control, extreme opinions on either side don't bother me, that's free thought. As long as we have a balance where it doesn't feel as if one side doesn't have a voice.

The attempted fix was successfully averted !! 😎

originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: ketsuko

Im going to need some help here.

Can someone please explain why Frisch conceded when the vote tally was clearly in recount territory?

Sub 1000 votes seperated the two candidates

He was ordered to.

An ongoing undercover investigation found something.

No further comment until this hits the MSM (if it does) 😎

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: ketsuko

Why did they allow a MAGA to win?

They got caught unexpectedly 😎

originally posted by: JinMI

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: JinMI

Even the press was conceding that the narrow margin was still larger than was likely to be overturned in a recount.

Wait wait wait.

They "predicted" that even a recount would be less than the amount to win....with under 1000 votes seperating the two candidates.....?

I believe that to be unprecedented...

99.? % of the vote in .
One has to take the % and the projected voters of that district .
With , most likely, 1% vote to count .

Given math , Adam Frisch made the honorable decision .

Now you know , and knowing is half the battle .

conspiracy thought;
the Democrats are having him concede, despite the closeness
and now every Republican that challenges or complains will have this thrown at them. 'why can't you be like Frisch and be an adult instead of whining blah blah'.

I suspect Frisch will get some nice payback position somewhere

No ATS threads on Boebert. Why so much attention on this single race?

a reply to: ketsuko

You know ,it seems an Awful lot of Psychics have become Media Reporters Nowadays . Makes Sense , Report the News BEFORE it Happens eh ?

If the vote count is within a certain percentage (I think .5% but I'm not sure) there will be an AUTOMATIC recount - whether one candidate concedes or not - and it does not have to be asked for by either candidate.

A candidate's concession has no legal effect what-so-ever - it does NOT stop the vote counting. All votes will be counted. If the final result reverses the status as of the time the concession was made, then the winner is still the winner, concession or not.

Recounts, whether automatic or candidate requested, SELDOM reverse the original result, but if it does, the winner is the winner, end of story. Concession or not has nothing to do with it.

All a concession means is that that candidate is an honorable person and is not going to piss on democracy and go running to the courts and complaining about cheating for the next umpteen years to continue their grift. It also means that that candidate respects the process and the dedicated election workers who are trying to do a good job.

a reply to: rnaa

FWIW here are the Colorado recount procedures, also FWIW the total votes in that district were

327,110 times .5%= 1635.55 so It should trigger a recount. But Frisch conceding could mean a number of things, #1 they don't think they have a chance of winning #2 It doesn't really affect the balance in Congress anyway.

ballotpedia.org...

Automatic recount procedures
Colorado requires automatic recounts under the following conditions:

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A recount of any election contest shall be held if the difference between the highest number of votes cast in that election contest and the next highest number of votes cast in that election contest is less than or equal to one-half of one percent of the highest vote cast in that election contest. If there is more than one person to be elected in an election contest, a recount shall be held if the difference between the votes cast for the candidate who won the election with the least votes and the candidate who lost the election with the most votes is less than or equal to one-half of one percent of the votes cast for the candidate who won the election with the least votes. A recount shall occur only after the canvass board certifies the original vote count. [2]

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—Colorado Revised Statues
Automatic recounts are paid for by the entity that certified the candidate or ballot measure in question.[3] Automatic recounts must be completed no later than 35 days after Election Day for all state, district, and county races.[3] Recounts for nonpartisan elections not coordinated by the county clerk must be completed no later than 40 days after Election Day.[3]

Requested recount procedures
Any of the following interested parties may request a recount:

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[T]he candidate who lost the election, the political party or political organization of such candidate, any petition representative identified pursuant to section 1-40-113 for a ballot issue or ballot question that did not pass at the election, the governing body that referred a ballot question or ballot issue to the electorate if such ballot question or ballot issue did not pass at the election, or the agent of an issue committee that is required to report contributions pursuant to the "Fair Campaign Practices Act", article 45 of this title, that either supported a ballot question or ballot issue that did not pass at the election or opposed a ballot question or ballot issue that passed at the election. [2]

”
—Colorado Revised Statutes
Links added
The requester is responsible for costs unless the recount changes the outcome of the election in his or her favor or changes the results of the election to a margin where an automatic recount would have been required. Requested recounts must be completed no later than 37 days after the election.Unofficially, the race is over. Officially, a few things have to happen before incumbent U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert is certified as the winner of her first reelection bid in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

www.denverpost.com...

Boebert overcame controversy, scandal and an unexpectedly strong challenge from former Aspen City Councilman Adam Frisch, barely eking out a win.

Election officials tallied the last few remaining ballots in the race Friday morning, putting Boebert ahead of Frisch by just 554 votes out of 327,110 cast, a margin of 50.08% to 49.92%, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

The far-right congresswoman declared victory Thursday night, posting a video on Twitter.

“We have won this race,” Boebert said. “With this victory and with Republicans in control of the House of Representatives we can focus on the issues that actually matter most, including getting inflation under control, increasing our domestic energy supply, securing our southern border and being a strong check on the White House.”

During a news conference Friday morning, Frisch said he had called Boebert to concede the race. The Democrat also thanked those who worked on his behalf and called for the politically divided country to come together and work toward “normalcy.”

“We’ve shown the country what western and southern Colorado can do,” Frisch said. “We’ve shown that extremist politicians can be defeated.”

Despite the two candidates’ acknowledgment of the race’s likely outcome, the matter isn’t yet settled in the eyes of Colorado’s election officials. First, the votes must be recounted.

Because Boebert won by so few votes, Colorado’s election law requires an automatic recount. She had to win by at least 819 votes — a number equal to half of 1% of the top vote-getter’s tally — to avoid an automatic recount, but even then Frisch could have requested one himself.

Here’s how the process works:

First, election officials in the 27 counties covered in Boebert’s district must audit and “canvass” their elections, a process in which bipartisan teams examine voter turnout and determine how many ballots were rejected, fixed or disqualified. The counties have until Nov. 29 and Nov. 30 to report their audit and canvassing reports to the Secretary of State’s Office, respectively.

Secretary of State Jena Griswold can’t officially order an automatic recount in the race until after those reports are in, and she has until Dec. 5 to make the call. Once a recount is ordered, a board of election officials must test the voting machines to be used to make sure they’re counting accurately before they start the process.

The recount process must be finished by Dec. 13 (that deadline extends to Dec. 15 for recounts requested by candidates). Only after that process is finished can the race’s results be certified.

Recounts are unlikely to change the outcome of a given race, though. A statewide recount this summer resulted in a change of 37 votes total, far from the hundreds of votes that split Boebert and Frisch.

In her victory speech, Boebert acknowledged the upcoming recount and said her campaign team and lawyers would watch the process closely. But she added that her win is unlikely to be reversed.

“Come January you can be certain of two things,” Boebert said. “I will be sworn in for my second term as your congresswoman. And Republicans can finally turn (outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy) Pelosi’s house back into the people’s house.”

a reply to: DBCowboy

This is the one they want to win so the media can continue to mock her and distract from real issues. Pretty sure she doesnt care what they say tho.

a reply to: ElGoobero

I suspect Frisch will get some nice payback position somewhere

like Al Gore

a reply to: rnaa

The concession is because even though the margin is within the recount territory, the remaining gap is around 500 votes, give or take a few, it is unlikely in the extreme that a recount is going to reverse a margin that large, and everyone knows it. Small margin? Yes, small enough that simply recounting the number of ballots again is going to make that much difference? Almost never going to happen without some serious shenanigans.