Republican challenger Martha McSally continues to lead Democratic Congressman Ron Barber by 161 votes as Pima County completed tabulated the last of its ballots.
McSally picked up a few votes today as a result of a stash of 208 ballots discovered in the Continental School District.
But the difference between the candidates remains so close that a mandatory recount looms on the horizon.
Between now and then, expect the Barber campaign to go to court to try to get some disqualified ballots restored in the race.
This article appears in Nov 6-12, 2014.
I have a stash of votes. Can I play, too? Geez!
Ah the DEMOCRATS.. just FOUND some more ballots huh? But even the FOUND ones werent enough, so lets get some of the ones that were “bad” to count too right? Will Democrats EVER play fair?
Suck it up libtards! You little puppet Barber is gone!! Even all of the illegal alien votes, the ones that La Raza sent over as well as those that voted for Grijalva (the Socialist Traitor), didn’t do him any good.
161 votes or 133 makes no difference, in a mid term low voter turn out in a county where democrats tend to win and republicans tend to loose she has to make some of them voters who voted for her happy and make many of them who will turn out next cycle like her or she will be a one ride pony!
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52 voters sent in their early ballot and also tried to vote a second time at the polls.
Rodriguez said she will recommend legal action against those who tried to vote twice.
“I will request that the Pima County Attorney’s Office investigate all 52 of these individuals for prosecution for attempting to vote twice,” wrote Rodriguez.
Another 28 voters will not be able to have their votes counted simply because they did not sign their provisional ballot form.
Four more told election officials that their address was outside of Pima County. County officials rejected three other provisional ballots because they could not confirm information that they provided on the form.
Ron Barber’s re-election campaign has said it has concerns about the number of ballots being rejected.
Why?
It would be interesting, should the Barber team win the case for including “questioned” ballots in the final count, only to find McSally leading by 201 votes.
Careful what you wish for…you might just get it.
Great point. The Dems always scream about election fraud (see Al Gore 2000) so why would they want to validate the questionable votes?
Let’s watch for how many of those 52 are ever prosecuted.
I think PC has done it once or twice.