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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Politics Your 2010 Election Aftermatch Update: Giffords Widens Lead Slightly in Cochise County; Pima County Starts Counting Ballots
Posted by Jim Nintzel on Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:49 PM
With a few more ballots counted in Cochise County, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has slightly widened her lead over Republican challenger Jesse Kelly. Giffords now leads Kelly by 2,356 votes. (You can find the latest results here.)
In Pima County, there are roughly 47,000 ballots left to count, according to Pima County Elections Director Brad Nelson.
Nelson tells us that they’re just getting started on the first batch of early ballots that were turned in on Election Day. You can watch them count the votes here.
He estimates that his team will count about 8,500 ballots by the close of business today and that count will be uploaded to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
He expects to count at least 10,000 more tomorrow and hopes to have most of the early ballots handled by Saturday.
Nelson is still waiting on more ballots that are being processed by Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez, who has to ensure that the ballots that still remain come from legitimate voters.
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I'm a bit mystified why nearly twice as many votes were cast in CD7 as in CD8? Are CD7 voters more apathetic? Or does the chart count only part of each district?
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What I don't understand is that this site includes both early ballot and polling place votes, e.g., see this: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/AZ…. It seems there's definitely fraud going on. CD7 and CD8 are one of the few districts in the country that still hasn't determined a candidate yet.
CD7 is gerrymandered to be predominantly Hispanic. CD8 is Kolbe's old custom district, and it is much more competitive with a blue dog Democrat in it. Yes, each district should represent about the same number of people theoretically.
Congressional Districts, created after the 2000 Census, contained about the same POPULATION at the time they were created, not how many registered voters. Both districts have seen an increase in population growth since they were created, but CD8 has grown significantly more than CD7.
and Geremia has it wrong, 2x more votes were cast in CD8 than CD7.
http://www.azsos.gov/election/2010/General…
Actually, it wasn't Geremia, I got it backwards (CD 8 had twice as many voters, not the reverse as I mis-typed). Mea culpa.
Republicans are so obsessed with "voter fraud" despite an historic lack evidence. Perhaps we need to return the favor and investigate them. There can't be that many legitimately stupid Republicans can there? I mean, 55% voted for the certifiable idiot Brewer?
But... Jan have uh, done... so much and cannot believe that we have changed everything since she became Governor ... and moving forward with ... everything ... we can possibly do... uh... [5 minute pause] we have, uh ... did. Stuff.
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