We're Not In Minnesota Anymore
If you thought election tallying shenanigans were reserved for the MN SEN race, think again.
In OH's 15th District, where State Sen. Steve Stivers (R) is clinging to a 149-vote lead, his camp is challenging OH Sec/State Jennifer Brunner's (D) directive to count provisional ballots that they say state law forbids. The lawsuit, filed in the OH Supreme Court 11/13, says that provisional ballots that weren't signed and printed by the voter should be thrown out. Brunner's office directed that as long as voters can be confirmed as eligible, they should be counted, whether or not they were signed and printed by the voter.
There are thousands of provisional ballots left to be counted, and Stivers' miniscule lead over '06 nominee Mary Jo Kilroy (D) may not hold up too long once those ballots, which tend to lean Dem, are counted.
In other House recount races, '06 nominee Charlie Brown (D) cut state Sen. Tom McClintock's (R) margin from 1,248 votes to 815 votes 11/13. But it's unclear how many ballots remain to be counted.
And in VA-05, atty Tom Perriello (D) continues to lead Rep. Virgil Goode (R) by 745 votes.
Dems currently hold a net gain of 20 seats in the House.
(TIM SAHD)
This is the same Jennifer Brunner who instructed her employees to discard voter registration cards submitted from an obviously Republican mailing if they didn't have an unnecessary box checked. She is a true partisan hack.