Posted on 11/16/2009 5:37:06 AM PST by IbJensen
The November 3 special congressional election in New York may not be over after all.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) may have jumped the gun by swearing in new Democratic Congressman Bill Owens from the 23rd Congressional District of New York.
Although Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman conceded to Owens, the state has yet to certify the election -- and the recanvassing of votes by the county Boards of Election shows Owens' lead has narrowed to 3,026 votes, with about 5,800 absentee ballots received so far that have yet to be counted.
Hans von SpakovskyHans von Spakovsky, a visiting legal scholar at The Heritage Foundation and a former member of the Federal Election Commission, says even if Hoffman were to ultimately win the race, he doubts Pelosi would allow him in Congress.
"I frankly don't trust that Speaker Pelosi would actually do the right thing," he admits.
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 5: Membership, Rules, Journals, Adjournment:
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members ...
The race was conceded, the Democrat majority seated the predicted winner. Even if this becomes a contested race, the majority in the House will determine the winner, by mandate. There is already precedent, the Democrats leaving votes in the box and seating their candidate over the obvious GOP winner, see Panetta, Gringrich and what Michel did to anger his conference enough that back-bencher Gingrich was elected Minority Whip.
Doug Hoffman just told Glenn Beck they are 2000 votes behind in NY 23with 10,000 absentee votes left to count.
Does anyone really know what is going on up there?
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