Here is a tight race for Congress that the media is now looking at.
Huffington Post:
Two days after the Nov. 4 elections, a congressional race in conservative Orange County, California that was dismissed by most observers as a lock for the GOP remains unresolved. Democratic challenger Bill Hedrick is down by 4,600 votes against 16-year incumbent Republican Ken Calvert in the 44th congressional district, but nearly 100,000 provisional and vote-by-mail absentee ballots have yet to be counted.
GOP lawyers are descending on registrars' offices in Orange and Riverside, the district's two counties, trying to influence the vote counting which begins today:
Rebecca Martine, Riverside County's chief deputy registrar, said there are 38,000 paper provisional ballots and 9,000 electronic provisional ballots to be counted.
Rebecca Martine, Riverside County's chief deputy registrar, said there are 38,000 paper provisional ballots and 9,000 electronic provisional ballots to be counted.
This is in addition to approximately another 50,000 absentee ballots.
Calvert's team has apparently been having private conversations with the registrar's office in Riverside County, which was the last county in California to report its election results. There were numerous reports from Democratic Party officials, voters and even a poll worker in Riverside County that voters were "forced to use provisional ballots" or "denied ballots entirely" on Tuesday.
Calvert's team has apparently been having private conversations with the registrar's office in Riverside County, which was the last county in California to report its election results. There were numerous reports from Democratic Party officials, voters and even a poll worker in Riverside County that voters were "forced to use provisional ballots" or "denied ballots entirely" on Tuesday.
Hedrick's campaign today issued a call for all votes to be counted. "We are urging any voter within Riverside or Orange County who voted in the 44th congressional race and were issued a provisional ballot to contact the registrar of voters in their county," said Hedrick communications director Lori Vandermeir, "to ensure their ballots are counted."
Republicans still hold a slight edge over Democrats in the Riverside County portion of the district, with roughly 5,000 more registered GOP voters than Democrats. But Hedrick, perhaps aided by the excitement surrounding President-elect Barack Obama, was ahead by almost 6,000 votes in Riverside County, according to the Riverside County registrar of voters.
On a side note: Hedrick has hired lawyers overseeing this matter.
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I live in Riverside and pray Bill wins if not Calvert will be indicted and we will have to pay for a speical election. We have to many crooks in States that need to be removed. Now that President Obama will bring back the Justice Dept. and kick Musk Rat and the fat dough boy out we'll have Lady Justice back thank God. Just a thought on a side note in case Obam/Biden read this website.
Appoint Pat Fitzgerald my friend and my special friend Randall Samborn to a position in the new Administration. I have already emailed this to the Obama/Biden website but for those who read this there's no better Lawyers who up hold Justice then Fitz/Randall and yes former Gov. Spitzer. For those who question my respect for Gov. Spitzer I say he the GOP and Media hadn't lied about him, he was ready to indict the GOP/White House with the fraud of the Stock Market and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and if Spitzer had been able to do his job millions of Americans would have been saved from losing their homes, jobs and life savings. We can thank the GOP and the Media for setting up Spitzer but it was also our lost.
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