I’m off to get some badly-needed studying in for the evening. Please feel free to use this space to discuss the ballot counts and re-counts in tight races: CT-02, FL-13, OH-02, OH-15, NC-08, GA-12, NM-01, WY-AL, and WA-08. With a million things going on this week, I haven’t been able to find out why the ballot count is going so slowly in WA-08. Can anyone tell me?
And an NC-08 note: from what I’ve been told, there are 1492 provisional ballots left to be counted. Kissell is down by 450 votes right now. By my math, Larry’s going to have to win 2/3rds of those provisionals to squeak this one out. I’m making an assumption here that provisionals tend to lean Democratic because they’re probably cast by people with ID problems or those who move around a lot (younger, more mobile voters). But I can’t guarantee that that’s the case here. For what it’s worth, Larry Kissell issued a statement this morning saying that he was confidant that he would win once these outstanding ballots were counted.
You can also discuss anything else election ’06-related here.
Its pretty much about King County, remember that this is the jurisdiction that gave Christine Gregoire the Governorship after a long drawn out & contentious ballot counting & recount battle.
they are also still receiving Absentee ballots, they just had to be postmarked by last Tuesday. Pierce County is a smaller chunk of the District but looks like they are at about the same place as King County:
I feel like we were gypped a seat there with all that undervote business. I hope something can be done about it.
Each town in CT-02 is conducting something that is sometimes called a “Recount” and sometimes a “Second Canvass” — the phrases seem to be used interchangeably by the officials.
Most of the voting was by lever machines, and so there’s nothing to recount: you just reopen the machine, make sure it wasn’t tampered with, and check out what it reads. Then you do a recount of the absentee ballots. I think some of the towns in this district (and there are a lot of towns! 80 or 90) use optical scan, so they’ll run the cards through the machine again. (But no hand counts at this stage.)
This whole thing is supposed to be done by Wednesday night; don’t know for sure but I might look for a final result on Thursday.
I’d be really surprised if Courtney’s lead isn’t enough to win the seat – it would be a major surprise for so many votes to shift in a recount of this kind.
According to this post on BlueNC, the full vote count for NC-08 won’t be done until the 17th, and it won’t be certified until the 28th, at which point the loser will have the option to request a recount.
In other words, that one will be out for a while…
100% In, they haven’t called it yet though. So hopefully there is still a chance:
Wilson’s margin has increased from 2,363 to 2,607 since yesterday, when I last posted on this. Yuk!
Right now, the balance in the Montana House of Representatives hangs on a four-vote difference in one race.
I’ll be watching too (uncalled races)
Cheers.
Was the debate the difference?
Perhaps Patricia Madrid wasn’t the best candidate, but it’s
really tough to win after more than six months of negative ads.
Wilson 104,857
Madrid 103,376
So Madrid has narrowed it by 126 votes.
provides a list of winners (endorsed by them) and includes results (not the numbers) for interesting “down the ticket” races in many states:
http://www.democracy…