With all but two votes counted in Cochise County, Republican challenger Martha McSally now leads Congressman Ron Barber by 509 votes.
Here in Pima County, an estimated 3,000 ballots are ready to be counted by the Elections Department this weekend, along with an estimated 9,000 provisional ballots that may or may not turn out to be valid. It’s unclear as to how many of those are in Congressional District 2.
Both Barber and McSally are soliciting contributions to help pay for lawyers and other expenses in the event of a recount.
More numbers to come as we get them. County spokesman Mark B. Evans tells The Range that Pima County will not post new results before Monday.
In other close races:
• Democrat Randy Friese now leads Republican state lawmaker Ethan Orr by 199 votes in the Legislative District 9 House of Representatives race.
• Michael Hicks now leads Jen Darland by 351 votes in the Tucson Unified School District race.
This article appears in Nov 6-12, 2014.
Thank YOU Tucson Weekly:
You’re the ONLY local media outlet informing the public as the vote tabulation changes. The others like to report ONLY when the McSally lead shrinks.
Makes them feel good, like THEY somehow are shaping events, I guess.
I agree with the first sentence of KitWarden’s comment but don’t think the rest of it is accurate.
I hope that they discount the several thousand illegal alien votes that the La Raza Retards were facilitating. They were actually directing illegals to a couple of voting stations that weren’t checking ID’s and also telling them how and who to vote for. That’s how Raul Grijalva was able to sneak past Mercer, AGAIN! Not to mention the $25k money order that his ofc. received from down south of the border!!!
Methinks Rick Jason has a black helicopter problem.
You can’t vote if you aren’t registered and to register you have to prove your citizenship. That is Arizona law so people who aren’t registered, who have not proven their citizenship can’t vote! Talk about xenophobic paranoia by Rick Jason!
Rick Johnson: Support your allegations with facts and I will check them out and report accordingly. That is the purpose of my blog, ArizonaCommonSense.com
Wow votes have not been totally counted yet, think its wise to wait till the votes are counted before anyone is getting to giddy!
You Cant Vote unless you are voting for a Democrat, right? Then, all bets are OFF.