I-591 & I-594 Elections Results Thread
Below are links to the official elections results pages. No info yet, the polls are still open until 8:00PM.
Edit: Polls are closed! Results will be officially certified by each county by November 25th, and the final results will be certified by the Secretary of State by December 4th. However, we should have a pretty good idea how things went over the next few days.
Update - 11/4 8:30 PM: Early counts have 591 (45% Yes - 55% No) and 594 (60% Yes - 40% No)
Update - 11/5 11:15 AM: Results are holding steadily and the count has slowed to a trickle. It's likely the vast majority of the ballots have been counted and we're just waiting for small numbers of ballots to trickle in.
Posted Nov 5, 2014, 12:14 AM UTC · edited
AAAnnnnddd we're fucked.
Our only hope is the NRA suing.
I don't like having to rely on them to sue.
I wonder if the 2a foundation has anything in the works legal wise. I'd hope having them HQ'd in Bellevue they would have all sorts of legal challenges lined up.
I'd hope so. I imagine they'd want to coordinate with the other 2A guys. One good sue is better than 3 or 4 mediocre ones.
I think they plan to. I don't like relying on it either, but I think that's why they didn't spend a lot on 594 itself.
Suing and winning could be better for the bigger picture nationwide though.
Why would they spend money on an initiative that was backed by billionaires and was a losing battle to begin with?
They pick and choose their battles, and this was a losing battle.
We hope now that this thing gets challenged in the courts.
If not, get ready for registration and bans.
That's exactly what I was thinking. You can't take Bloomberg head-on or the hard-left bitches about "buying elections". I don't think it'll go much farther, but I tend towards optimism.
It would have been a waste of money to try and fight it effectively.
Hopefully there will be a couple of good lawsuits.
Yup.
Roger.