Mitchell's Apparent Win Over Hayworth May Take A Long Time To Verify (dirty tricks!)

[Coventina]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1109elect-cd51109.html

Don't expect to learn for several days, and possibly much longer, whether Democrat Harry Mitchell has displaced Republican Congressman J.D. Hayworth.

Countywide, some 200,000 ballots remained to be counted Wednesday, Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell said.

Hayworth's camp was hoping that the unknown number from his 5th Congressional District will favor him enough to overcome Mitchell's current lead of slightly fewer than 6,000 votes.

The state Republican Party was mobilizing 72 volunteers on Wednesday for training to conduct a hand count if a Superior Court judge rules that one is warranted. Democrats said talk about a recount is premature until all ballots have been processed.


Looks like Hayworth is going to try and steal it!!!
I should have known this asshole wouldn't just go away.

I wonder if he had anything to say about Florida in 2000?
And if so, can we make him eat his words?!?!?!

[Justitia]

1. I assume our people are on top of it? Aggressively? -eom

[yellowcanine]

2. Aren't Repubs opposed to hand counts? Or was that hand jobs?

[MidwestTransplant]

9. Not hand jobs so long as it's done in conjunction with Meth use.

[Mudoria]

3. With 200k remaining to be counted

and trailing by only 6k why wouldn't he want to wait till all the votes are counted? Every vote should be counted..

[Coventina]

4. The numbers cited are misleading

200,000 ballots for the entire Maricopa county, of which only a small fraction is Hayworth's district.

He's hoping that as many as 100,000 are from his district, but that is the crack pipe talking.

He's losing by 4 points. Virtually every single ballot would have to be his in order for him to make up that much ground.

Plus, I find it very suspicious that the Republican party is already rounding up "volunteers" for a hand count.

[Justitia]

5. I agree, I don't like the "volunteers" angle. -eom

[City Lights]

6. My first thought - how much are they paying the "volunteers?"

I smell a decomposing rat.

[0007]

7. Hayworth needs to wear a pair of pink panties and be herded

around by Joe Arpaio. The Sheriff of Maricopa County.

[David__77]

8. Arpaio is fascist scum.

He should be locked away.

[rodeodance]

10. drats