Have not seen that but I suspect they are a) overly optimistic and b) overlooking the provisional ballots, not to mention the people who voted on scrap of paper. Provisional ballots are usually ignored but when there are 8000 of them and the gap is only a hundred some votes statewide....
On 2/6/08, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I was just reporting what the wires are saying, but you are there > so I would be more willing to believe you than the news. > > Well I am happy to report that California also had some of the highest > voter turnout yesterday, even more than a general election. Hopefully > this is true of all states. I think that the people are really ready to > stand and be heard. We will see in about 9 months. This is truly an > exciting election year. I am more excited this year than I was when I > was first able to vote. > > Bruce > > Dana wrote: > > midday? You sweet silly fool you. It took us over a month to produce a > > result in the general election. But yes, lat I heard, four of the more > > remote counties had not reported at all and a couple of large > > precincts in the metropolitan area were not done counting. For some > > reason there was only one voting location in Rio Rancho (a large > > suburb of Albuquerque) and people were apparently in lline for more > > than three hours after the door closed at 7. There were also reports > > of polling stations running out of ballots and they will probably need > > to make a determination on what to do about the makehift ballots. > > Count them or not? > > > > Still, I am encouraged that there was way more turnout than expected, > > and in some fairly evil weather too. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:253424 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
