As of Sunday night, Congressman Ron Barber leads Republican challenger Martha McSally by 330 votes, following a report of new vote totals from Cochise County.
Pima County did not count votes today.
This was the first time that Cochise County has delivered a new vote count without McSally taking the lead back from Barber in the race.
More on the back-and-forth race can be found here.
Meanwhile, Pima County will resume counting ballots tomorrow. An update from Pima County spokeswoman Rhonda Bodfield:
The Pima County Elections Department will resume counting approximately 3,000 early ballots Monday morning, Nov. 12.
The count is expected to begin at 9 a.m., with the batch completed by the early afternoon.
Elections staff may count additional ballots in the afternoon, depending on the amount of ballots readied for tabulation.In the interim, the Recorder’s Office continues working to verify the approximately 27,000 provisional ballots issued at the polling places. The office has until Nov. 16 to finish verifying those ballots.
An as-yet-undetermined number of provisional and conditional ballots issued at the polling places will not be certified for a number of different reasons, including if voters failed to provide the appropriate identification, were not registered to vote, or already cast an early ballot before showing up at the polling places. Counting of provisional ballots will proceed as batches are received and processed.
As Election 2012 is finalized, daily updates will be posted by 6 p.m. on Pima County’s home page, www.pima.gov, with the total number of ballots counted that day.
By statute, Pima County must certify its election results by Nov. 26.
For the latest results, please visit http://www.pima.gov/elections/results.htm
The Pima County Elections Department publishes a schedule of elections events at
http://www.pima.gov/elections/PDF/event%20schedule.pdfIf you’d like to watch a live feed of the ballot counting, please visit
http://streamer.pima.gov/asxgen/wmtencoder/elections.wmv
This article appears in Nov 8-14, 2012.
Go Barber!
It makes perfect sense that all of the intellect-challenged voters who couldn’t get their ballots in the mail, or who couldn’t figure out which polling place to go to, would cast their ballots for Barber.
if Barber wins Tucson is in trouble for sure
“If Barber wins Tucson is in trouble for sure”. Alfred, if you intend on writing something provocative like this statement, at least do us readers the courtesy of explaining specific examples of “trouble”. Otherwise, I can’t berate you in an equally sophisticated manner and instead will be left with no choice but to refer to you only with single syllabic nouns such as, “idiot, fool, imbecile, dolt, dunce, etc.” You get the picture?
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
This is a heck of a way to run an election. What in the world is the problem here? Everyone else in the country is already over this. Why are we still counting?
The reason why – F. Ann Rodriguez, re-elected again to botch yet another simple process.
And I’m wondering about the votes for Carmona as well. The Phoenix area still has around 250,000 Early & Provisional ballots to count–I sure hope there is accountability in this counting and the numbers are double-checked. Why is there such a big push for Early Voting when the ballots aren’t even counted until several days later? The races are all called the night of the election, even though hundreds of thousands of these “early votes” aren’t even considered. Who’s providing the oversight here?
re: comment above “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” The best trick any dog knows is how to lick himself. The same goes for most politicians, including Ron Barber.