Lawyers watch carefully as Kern counts its votes BY JAMES BURGER AND STEVEN MAYER, Californian staff writers jburger@bakersfield.com | Thursday, Nov 04 2010 09:00 PM Last Updated Thursday, Nov 04 2010 09:00 PM smayer@bakersfield.com Grim-faced teams of lawyers and campaign strategists for Republican Andy Vidak and Democrat Jim Costa's 20th District Congressional campaigns camped out in the Kern County Elections Division offices Thursday, literally peering over the shoulders of election workers as they went through the 65,000 uncounted provisional and vote-by-mail ballots. Those ballots, and more than 70,000 outstanding ballots being counted in Fresno County, will decide which man wins...