The Green Party may cost Democrats a Senate seat in Arizona

Martha McSally.
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Arizona voters who went with Green Party Senate candidate Angela Green over Democrat Kyrsten Sinema might have cost the latter candidate the election. On Wednesday morning, with the race still not called, Republican Martha McSally had the slight lead of 49.3 percent of the vote with 99 percent of the precincts reporting, while Sinema had 48.4 percent of the vote.

The difference between McSally and Sinema comes down to 15,908 votes. Green has 38,597 votes in Arizona — in other words, if even half of the Green Party voters had voted for Sinema instead, she would likely be in the lead, not McSally.

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.