At 10:28 PM 11/7/02, Steve Sloan II wrote:
Ronn Blankenship wrote, about the Alabama governor's race:> > With any luck, sometime before the end of January I'll > > find out who was elected governor. Julia Thompson wrote: > So what's the holdup? I know what it was in Tarrant > County, TX and I can go back and see what it was in Bexar > County. (All the counties considered to be in the Austin > paper's "area" had reasonably smooth vote-counting. *My* > county had full results on the internet when I checked 45 > minutes after the polls closed, so no problem *there*....) In one county, the incumbent Democratic governor was about 3K votes ahead of the Republican challenger, then the results suddenly and mysteriously switched so that the Republican was 3K ahead.
FWIW, the discrepencacy was blamed on a "software glitch", which was reportedly found and fixed sometime Tuesday. However, the figures that went to the local and national media and to the Democratic candidate's people were supposedly the erroneous ones (showing some 6000+ extra votes for the Democrat which did not exist), which led him to claim victory after both local and national media declared him the winner. Someone noticed, though, that the total vote in the governor's race was different from the totals in any other race, leading to the discovery of the error. The votes were supposed to be certified NLT noon today (Friday), but Siegelman (D incumbent) is still calling for a recount. Riley (R challenger) is supposed to give a live press conference at 6 pm CST (17 minutes from now) . . .
--Ronn! :)
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