{"id":92014,"date":"2017-12-29T07:33:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T11:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92014"},"modified":"2017-12-29T07:33:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T11:33:23","slug":"doug-jones-officially-declared-alabama-special-election-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92014","title":{"rendered":"Doug Jones Officially Declared Alabama Special Election Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Roy-Moore-Getty-Images-Jonathan-Bachman-GOOD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-92015\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Roy-Moore-Getty-Images-Jonathan-Bachman-GOOD-1024x439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Roy-Moore-Getty-Images-Jonathan-Bachman-GOOD-1024x439.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Roy-Moore-Getty-Images-Jonathan-Bachman-GOOD-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Roy-Moore-Getty-Images-Jonathan-Bachman-GOOD-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Roy-Moore-Getty-Images-Jonathan-Bachman-GOOD.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>JACK CROWE<br \/>\nThe Daily Caller<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Doug Jones was officially declared the winner of the Alabama special Senate election Thursday afternoon, moments after a judge rejected Roy Moore\u2019s allegation of voter fraud, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery Circuit Judge Johnny Hardwick\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.com\/0cac14b238da45e0942d039dbe01ded6?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a>\u00a0to reject Moore\u2019s election complaint, filed Wednesday night, led Alabama election officials to officially declare Democrat Doug Jones\u2019 victory Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The former Alabama supreme court judge has refused to concede, despite losing the Dec. 10 special election by more than 20,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill previously downplayed the implications of the challenge, declaring it \u201chighly unlikely\u201d that the result would be overturned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill this affect anything?\u201d Merill\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/28\/politics\/john-merrill-roy-moore-doug-jones-alabama-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0CNN of Moore\u2019s challenge Thursday morning. \u201cThe short answer to that is no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s attorney cited voting irregularities in the suit and called for a fraud investigation, as well as a new election. Though no formal investigation has been launched, Alabama election officials maintain they have found no evidence of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s complaint suggests the election was subverted by non-Alabama residents, who effectively turned the election for Jones. The suit attributes the theory to a number of election experts, one of whom is well-known conspiracy theorist\u00a0Richard Charnin.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 campaign referred to the last ditch legal effort as a \u201cdesperate attempt\u201d to \u201csubvert the will of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An affidavit included in the suit also claims Moore has been absolved of the numerous allegations of child abuse by a polygraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results of the examination reflected that I did not know, nor had I ever had any sexual contact with any of these individuals,\u201d the affidavit reads.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/28\/doug-jones-officially-declared-alabama-special-election-winner\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/28\/doug-jones-officially-declared-alabama-special-election-winner\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}