of against type i think that helped mr. kelley in the polling, at least in the early going. yeah, signature problems on their nominating petitions. this is a race that certainly has not been without drama. what is kelley potentially facing here criminally? as i m not an attorney, these are misdemeanors he s charged with and they come with some hefty fines. but i don t really know what other ramifications there may be. but the real crux of this is whatever their determination is, found innocent or guilty or whatever else might happen, it is not going to happen, least i wouldn t think it would happen, before the august election. so that creates an interesting circumstance. does he kind of relish this? how does he feel about having to come to washington and having to be in court? is this because it is something that helps with his name i.d.?
insurrection-related actions might be politically disqualifying or certainly damaging, but has it actually helped him? i think there is no question that from a name i.d. standpoint that this activity has certainly put him in a position to lead in some polls, including the one we had commissioned, that went into the field 24 hours after his arrest. now, understand that every media outlet in the state covered that event and so his name i.d. was greatly elevated in my opinion and i think that had an impact on the polls, and if i can, just for background, we had this very unsettled republican field of candidates. at one time, ten candidates that appeared to be qualified for the ballot. five of them were disqualified because of signature problems and two of those would be considered a couple of the front-runners. so the field that is left is really trying to gain traction and to get name i.d., and kind
claims that people were waiting in line for several hours compared to areas where there were more white voters. this is her allegation. pete: i have read the allegations. ed: that there was voter suppression and a lot of people were taken off the rolls all together because of signature problems. maybe that is legitimate. maybe there were people trying to vote. pete: i would rather have that than brenda snipes have people who have been dead for 20 years. ed: you should be able to vote. jedediah: abrams lost by a very large margin. pete: do you think i don t want people to vote? ed: i didn t say that. jedediah: point out this is a pattern now. this would be one thing if you were having a conversation about voter suppression and georgia was an isolated incident. this is the new, as i said before, the mantra of the democratic party. every time there is an election now and they lose they card out oh they cheated, they didn t play fair. sometimes you just lose. you put up a good fight and yo
overnight election officials in broward county finished their machine ballot recount. but a judge allowed more time to correct signature problems. plus, u.s. futures pointing lower this morning, as you can see there. the dow closed down as well yesterday 206 counts. we ll see if stocks can make up those points. stay with us. before the bell is brought to you by e-trade, the original place to invest online. and go to cnn.com/beforethebell to sign up for the daily newsletter. do you want $4.95 commissions for stocks, $0.50 options contracts? $1.50 futures contracts? what about a dedicated service team of trading specialists? did you say yes? good, then it s time for power e trade. the platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need.
overheated. at 10:30 a.m., county reports about 50%-60% complete with its recount process. supervisor brenda snipes promised to meet the 3:00 p.m. deadline and the hand recount that will surely follow. a couple 100 people, tables, space, space for the canvassing board to work, we need folks representing the candidates, we ll have to identify the votes that seem to be valid and not valid. seven recount lawsuits have been filed in tallahassee alone. the local newspaper noting that all of them are landing on the desk of chief judge mark wahlberg who has stringently colorful world worded opinions. senator nelson argued for a more lenient interpretation of signature matching on mail in ballots. one government witness certified that more than 100 ballots have been set asignature problems.