How is Nancy Skinner doing?

[eleny]

[Bushwick Bill]

1. Down.

Name Party Votes Pct
Knollenberg, Joe (i) GOP 9,366 50.38
Skinner, Nancy Dem 8,710 46.85
Goodman, Adam Lib 303 1.63
Abel, Matthew Grn 212 1.14

U.S. House - District 10 - 197 of 361 Precincts Reporting
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2006/general/by_state/us_house/MI.html?SITE=MIDTNELN&SECTION=POLITICS

[TahitiNut]

2. Not even close to being called yet - U.S. House - District 9 - 23 of 315 Precincts Reporting

There's something SERIOUSLY wrong with getting the returns in for the 9th District. Less than 10% have reproted BUT more than 50% ove EVERY OTHER district have reported.

Something has to explain that delay ... COOKING THE BALLOTS?

[SharonRB]

3. Pontiac had major problems

and Waterford ran out of ballots. I spoke to a man there at about 6:45 who had just come back from trying to vote. He was pissed -- they ran out of ballots and were turning people away in droves. We called the county and they were going to try to get more ballots out to them. I don't know what wound up happening. I hope they kept the polls open late, but I don't know how they would notify the people who had been turned away. In Pontiac, they were still voting at 10 p.m.

It's been nasty, but even though Nancy's down now, I don't think it's over yet. She had a very strong following in Pontiac and they had major turnout. Turnout was much better than expected there and in Waterford, which is why they ran out of ballots.

[TahitiNut]

4. The OC GOP has worked at suppressing the Pontiac vote for years.

This was no accident, imho.

Pappageorge, in fact, is infamous for remarks he's made in this exact vein.

[SharonRB]

5. I agree with you

Somehow Andy Levin has managed to win, it appears, thank goodness, but I'm really concerned about Nancy. I wish they'd get that last 22 percent counted. The SOS site has nothing. They're showing 0 vote from Oakland County. I don't get it.

[gasperc]

6. where are you guys getting results?

the frickin MI gov site has nothing

[TahitiNut]

7. Oakland County and City of Royal Oak - both run election result websites

SharonRB worked on the Skinner campaign, so I believe she's quoting campaign office info.

Here's the Oakland County website ...
http://www.oakgov.com/clerkrod/division_committee/elections/20061107_election/results.html

[SharonRB]

8. Last night I only had what I saw on TV

I see this morning on the oakgov site that Andy wound up losing by 776 votes. I can't believe it!

Pontiac is the only 28 precincts in the entire state not reporting. Pretty fishy to me. I understand Pontiac had a 30 percent turnout -- far below everyone else -- most cities in the 9th, at least, were over 60 percent. What doesn't make sense is that at 4 o'clock they had 11,000 votes and they wound up with a total of 13,000. Pretty suspect to me. Nancy had 11,000 of the 13,000 total to Joe's 2,000. I have no idea why their results aren't showing up on the site, as I understand they're all counted.