CT-Gov: No Call Yet, But Malloy on Cusp of Win

It’s all over but the legal wrangling:

Faced with news that an all-night vote count in Bridgeport has apparently swung the disputed gubernatorial election to Democrat Dannel Malloy, Republican candidate Tom Foley  said Friday he’s lost some confidence in his prospects but won’t concede defeat until he’s certain that the results are accurate.

And he said he’d consider a lawsuit to force a recount if he be believes it’s warranted.

An all-night vote count in Bridgeport went for Malloy, with 17,973 votes to Republican Tom Foley’s 4,099, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch’s office said Friday morning after local election officials concluded their work. The numbers appear to bring Malloy’s total statewide to 566,351, to Foley’s 560,886, with a difference of 5,465.

The margin appears to be enough to overcome the 8,409-vote lead that Foley held before the Bridgeport votes were counted.

Apparently, a final result will “hopefully” be released later today. I’ll add only this: I certainly hope that the incoming Secretary of State, Denise Merrill, will take a more proactive approach to Bridgeport’s recurring shortage of ballots than Susan Bysiewicz has over the past two cycles.

9 thoughts on “CT-Gov: No Call Yet, But Malloy on Cusp of Win”

  2. And Gov.-elect Malloy will be viewed in a less favorable light for it. First impressions and all that, at least for the scads of Connecticut residents who didn’t bother voting.

  4. Step 1. If there’s 75,000 registered voters in the city, order 75,000 ballots.

    Step 2. Recycle any that go unused.

    There is no step three.

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    Seriously, yeah, I know they’re expensive (they claim $0.30 per ballot, which seems excessively high to me); it would’ve cost the city about $14,000 to order 75,000 instead of 30,000.

    Still, how much is the legal mess gonna cost the state over the next month or two? Even if the losing candidate covers the official cost, how much lost productivity/bad blood/etc is it gonna cost Connecticut? A lot more than $14K, I’d imagine…

  6. Dan Malloy has defeated Republican Tom Foley to become the first Democrat in two decades to be elected governor of Connecticut.

    The Associated Press on Friday reinstated its call of Malloy as the winner of the governor’s race. The AP initially called Malloy the winner on Wednesday, after Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said her preliminary count showed Malloy had won by 3,103 votes. The AP withdrew the call Wednesday night when its vote count, with all but a handful of precincts reporting, showed Foley with a narrow lead.

    The AP received a complete report of results from heavily Democratic New Haven on Thursday, which substantially boosted Malloy’s total, as did new vote totals from heavily Democratic Bridgeport on Friday. The AP’s complete but unofficial count shows Malloy winning by 7,762 votes. A separate complete count now posted on the secretary of the state’s website shows Malloy winning by 5,644 votes. Both margins are well outside the difference that would trigger an automatic recount under state law.

    http://www.boston.com/news/pol…

    They better mean it this time. 😉

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