Posted on 11/09/2006 6:43:11 PM PST by george76
Hope J.D. can pull it off.
" Some results of early and provisional ballots released Sunday had little affect on the margin of victory Democrat Harry Mitchell held over Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth in the race for Arizona's 5th Congressional District.
Mitchell had a total of 85,318 votes, or 50 percent. Hayworth, a 12-year incumbent, had 79,792 votes, or 46.8 percent.
Libertarian Warren Severin had 5,412 votes, or about 3.2 percent."
" About 250,000 ballots piled up in early voting and are being processed at the rate of about 25,000 a day.
At that rate, officials expect they will be counting through the week."
http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/1113b1-talker13-CP.html
Fingers crossed...
Looking at numbers from Thursday night, he's picked-up about 400 votes out of roughly 24000 additional votes counted.
going to be close, needs to pick up 550 per 25,000. 400 will not get it done.
I have not been able to find how many are military.
Apparently this is normal to hand count 250,000 votes at 25,000 per day ?
I guess that 250,000 mailed in votes is normal here ?
Monday Update, doesn't look good, but we don't know where these ballots are coming from. He was definitely right about there being a lot of extra votes, we are up over 25,000 votes from the Tuesday results of about 140,000. But he's not making up ground that fast.
Hayworth: 82,485 46.8%
Mitchell: 88,302 50.1%
Severin: 5,578
Total: 176,365
Current deficit: 5,817.
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