Day 115: Who wants a Fair Fight?

Anyone interested in free, fair and secure elections this year?

Dr. Susan Altfeld is. As the winner of the Harper's Letter -name your elite quiz-, Dr. Altfeld (or Susan if you are into the whole informality thing) selected Fair Fight, the organization started by Stacy Abrams.

Today, on behalf of Susan, Don's Basement donated $25.00 to Fair Fight.

Fair Fight essentially began the night of November 6. Stacey Abrams  narrowly lost her bid for governor of  Georgia to then republican Secretary of State, Brian Kemp. 

Ms. Abrams fell short of winning by 55,000 votes or 1.3% of the total vote. She acknowledged the result but did not concede the election.

Ms. Abrams and others have pointed out some possible irregularities in the years proceeding the election.

• 1.6 million voters were purged from the voter rolls from 2010-2018, leaving them ineligible to vote.

• Nearly 30,000 voters were forced to vote on a provisional ballot, most of which did not count.
• 53,000+ voter registrations were held hostage in "pending" status. 
• Thousands of absentee ballot applications were lost of rejected, disenfranchising voters, particularly voters of color.

Among other voter protection and registration efforts, Fair Fight has challenged Georgia's voting policies with a law suit, Fair Fight v  Raffensperger (Georgia Secretary of State) in hopes of restoring the Voting Rights Act to Georgia.

Despite her narrow defeat, Stacey Abrams increased her national profile. She is still being considered as Joe Biden's choice for Vice President but her chances have been dimming. Here are the current  odds of VP choices by sports betting site and analysis by bookies.com.

2020 Democratic Vice Presidential Betting Odds

( 'minus' odds on Kamala Harris means that to win $100 you have to bet $134. For the other candidates, your $100 bet would yield $400, $700 etc.  Thus Stacey Abrams is a 33 to 1 shot get the nod)

Candidate Odds
Kamala Harris -134
Susan Rice +400
Tammy Duckworth +700 Go Tammy Go
Val Demings +900
Michelle Obama +1000 ??????
Elizabeth Warren +1000
Keisha Lance Bottoms +1700
Stacey Abrams +3300
Michelle Lujan Grisham +3300
Amy Klobuchar +5000
Gretchen Whitmer +5000

A few other notes...

In reviewing the Georgia governors of the past I found this odd anomaly. All of the governors have been white men.

Thanks to suggestions by Dr. Howard Rossman, Don's Basement will be donating to a number of new causes. More to come on that.

Still waiting...

For an answer to the 'bombing into the stone age' question.

Hints:

Vice Presidential Candidate
He called for the bombing of Cuban missile sites in 1962
Fictionalized as Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove.

Sterling Hayden as Jack D. Ripper