This thing may not be over yet

[KamaAina]

you probably thought Florida was the only warm-weather state that took days on end to count ballots, didn't you? Think again...

http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_15260876

Santa Clara County is still counting more than 100,000 ballots from Tuesday's election and is not expected to finish until Friday at the earliest.

The huge number of provisional and mail-in ballots left means the winners of some races are still unknown, including the district attorney contest, as veteran prosecutor Jeff Rosen holds a razor-thin lead over incumbent Dolores Carr. (did not charge cops who gunned down a man known to have mental illness -Ed.)

...As of this morning, there were still about 86,000 vote-by-mail ballots and 7,500 provisional ballots left to count, Rosas said.

Those ballots represent nearly one-third of the votes cast in the county. Rosen is currently leading by 2,217 votes. (Rosen has 50.61 percent of the votes so far.)

If that pattern holds statewide (it may not, as our procedures are strikingly bush-league; after you finish your ballot, you just stick it a plain old cardboard ballot box; they don't even have the reader at the polling place!), there's still lots of wiggle room for 16 and 17 to come back from the grave, as well as Eli Broad-funded school superintendent candidate Gloria Romero, pressently on the outside looking in at a runoff., and, of course, DA Carr. :scared: