Some California Election Results May Be Unknown For 3 Weeks
Tom McClintock holds a narrow lead over Charlie Brown
The Issue: Californians placed their votes Tuesday for candidates and propositions in the November 4th election. While most of the results are conclusively decided, some probably won’t be determined for at least two weeks and may take as long as three weeks.
Tom McClintock, a Republican from Thousand Oaks has had an ugly election against Charlie Brown, a Democrat from Roseville for the 4th Congressional Seat. After millions in spending and lots of mud, initial results from the Secretary of State show McClintock ahead by 709 votes (156,516 votes to Brown’s 155,807).
In Southern California, Hannah-Beth Jackson, a Democrat from Santa Barbara leads Tony Strickland, a Republican from Moorpark by 108 votes for the 19th District State Senate seat (153,106 votes and 152,998 respectively). Both of these races are yet to be called for any candidate.
The results cannot yet be decisively determined because each race has at least 40,000 votes left to be counted. Some of these votes are absentee (vote by mail) ballots and others are provisional ballots (filed when a person’s voter registration cannot be verified). These two close elections will be decided by the trends of late voters by mail and people with registration troubles.
One Statewide Ballot Initiative, Proposition 11 – Redistricting could also be flipped from a victory to defeat, based on the roughly 2.6 million votes statewide yet to be counted. According to the Secretary of State, it is ahead by 102,010 with 4,692,302 votes in favor and 4,590,292 votes opposed. The measure is leaning to the passage side, but could easily slide over during the rest of the count.
Automatic Recounts
A new California law requires the Secretary of State to automatically recount 10 percent of the ballots for any race that is decided by less than .5 percent. For the 4th Congressional and 19th Senate districts, this may very well be the case.
Analysis: Don’t hold your breath for results
Unless the results of these races split heavily in the direction of one candidate or the other, both will have to be recounted. Hopefully we will have results by the December 1st Inauguration Day.
We won’t know the results of this election for 3 weeks, because it will
take that long for the Dems to steal it.
Should it be legal to kill yourself? No, of course not because it is totally immoral. Should prostitution be legal? No, of course not because it is totally immoral and spreads diseases and death. Should it be legal for two people of the same sex to get married? No, of course not because it is totally immoral and effects school children and makes people think that committing a horrible sin (homosexual sex) is acceptable. Infringing on people’s religious rights is unacceptable. There was a doctor in San Diego County who was sued for refusing to artificially inseminate a lesbian couple because of his religious, moral belief.
The voters have spoken regarding prop 8, why should we have a re-vote? Isn’t that why we have a democracy? Have it put on the ballot for another election….
Joe