Stranger and stranger...
Just when you thought this primary election had done it all, here comes this one;
It's possible we may not have a winner next week - especially in the hotly contested U.S. Senate Democratic primary contest. The Associated Press is reporting that state officials announced Wednesday that the Aug. 8 primary "will be held open" until Aug. 25 to insure that absentee ballots from Connecticut soldiers and sailors overseas are counted.
There are roughly 2,100 eligible military members who can vote in the primary - and 700 ballots were mailed late. In order to insure those votes are counted, the "official" outcome of the Aug. 8 will not be ratified until Aug. 25. What that means is, if a race - and in particular the U.S. Senate race which is predicted to be close - is 700 or less votes difference in the tallies - we won't know for another two weeks who won.
Like I said...just when you think you've seen it all.
It's possible we may not have a winner next week - especially in the hotly contested U.S. Senate Democratic primary contest. The Associated Press is reporting that state officials announced Wednesday that the Aug. 8 primary "will be held open" until Aug. 25 to insure that absentee ballots from Connecticut soldiers and sailors overseas are counted.
There are roughly 2,100 eligible military members who can vote in the primary - and 700 ballots were mailed late. In order to insure those votes are counted, the "official" outcome of the Aug. 8 will not be ratified until Aug. 25. What that means is, if a race - and in particular the U.S. Senate race which is predicted to be close - is 700 or less votes difference in the tallies - we won't know for another two weeks who won.
Like I said...just when you think you've seen it all.
posted by Ray Hackett at 1:31 PM
3 Comments:
This doesn't sound right to me unless they changed some of the election statutes that I'm unaware of. I've never heard of such a thing ever happening in Connecticut before.
snorwich...actually I did wirte about this a few weeks ago, suggesting that because of the two Democratic primaries, come of the other Democratic campaigns were having a difficult time in finding volunteers and field operators. It isn't that unusual for campaigns to hire people for field operations - especially on the state levell. Granted the number of people being hired by the Lieberman campaign is larger than what most campaigns do - but this isn't like most campaigns. And...if you got the money, and you get off to a late start - like they did - it isn't that unusual at all.
How effective it will be - that's to be determined on Tuesday.
Bill...it is unusual - no question. But as I just said, this is an unusual campaign to say the least. The decision apparently stems from a settlement in lawsuit brought against the state for sending out those absentee ballots late. It's an agreement intended to make sure that who want to vote have the opportunity to vote.
snorwich...the Q-poll is what it is, and you are correct, it doesn't bode well for Lieberman. The bigger question is, how many are coming out on Tuesday to vote?
Thanks Ray, I did a little digging and from what I've heard it had something to do with a lawsuit brought in FEDERAL court where that judge's decision affects every state, not just Connecticut.
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