Three days after the vote, eight House districts are still without certain results, and the counting continues, as Phillip Elliot of the Associated Press reports:
Eight House races remain without winners after Tuesday's election, with Republican incumbents in tight contests to keep their seats and state officials not rushing to end the dispute.
Rep. Deborah Pryce, a member of the House Republican leadership, is ahead in her central Ohio race by 3,536 votes. In the Columbus, Ohio-area, elections officials are delaying the count of more than 9,000 provisional ballots by one day so it doesn't disrupt the much-vaulted Ohio State-Michigan football game on Nov. 18.Elections officials in that district will start counting Nov. 19.
Ohio Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, who called Democratic Rep. John Murtha a coward, is ahead of her challenger by 2,862 votes. Rep. Barbara Cubin, who threatened to slap her wheelchair-bound Libertarian opponent after a debate, is ahead by fewer than a thousand votes in her Wyoming contest.
Of the eight uncalled races, only one -- Joe Courtney's challenge to Republican Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut -- gives a Democratic challenger the lead. In that race, Courtney is ahead by a scant 166 votes. Almost a quarter of a million votes were cast.
Read the whole report at the link above. These aren't all "recounts" yet, of course - they still have to resolve challenged and provisional ballots in many districts.



Comments (11)
Vote fraud is a BIG problem... (Below threshold)1. Posted by TX Hill Country Girl | November 10, 2006 5:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Vote fraud is a BIG problem. Contact your senators to encourage them to pass the VoterID legislation NOW (eg: before Jan). Otherwise 2008 will be more of the same.
1. Posted by TX Hill Country Girl | November 10, 2006 5:29 PM |
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Posted on November 10, 2006 17:29
2. Posted by John S | November 10, 2006 6:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So does this mean the big 30 seat Democratic sweep is really a 23 seat gain, which means the House and the Senate are both essentially evenly divided? I'm less impressed by the Blue Wave each day...
2. Posted by John S | November 10, 2006 6:42 PM |
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Posted on November 10, 2006 18:42
3. Posted by Scrapiron | November 10, 2006 8:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Is it true that 90% of the Diebold machines had been hacked by the dim's?
Historically this has been the claim of the losers of any election, the other side hacked the machines.
Never trust the outcome of an election when they don't even know who is voting. I.D. required and every polling place video taped from opening til closing, inside and out.
3. Posted by Scrapiron | November 10, 2006 8:54 PM |
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Posted on November 10, 2006 20:54
4. Posted by BAGMAN | November 10, 2006 11:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
How do you figure 23 seats John S? They allready picked up 29. The seats being mentioned are not part of that total. As it stands the Dems will get 2 more seats (31), though that could change, especially in CT-2 where the margin is so slim.
Cute math dude, but try and keep it grounded in reality when making your case.
4. Posted by BAGMAN | November 10, 2006 11:08 PM |
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Posted on November 10, 2006 23:08
5. Posted by ba | November 11, 2006 7:58 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I wouldn't be surprised if the house gets more Republicans added to the numbers. Reichert in Washington state, maybe 2 more seats in Republican Connecticut.
Democrats have NOTHING to crow over. Conservatives did come out to support our President. We are A DIVIDED nation.
and now...these so called Democrats who are
"conservative" have to support the wiretapping of
TERRORIST plotting...to PROTECT ALL OF AMERICA...
and Ms. Pelosi and Harry Reid want to put it off til Jan. 2007, instead of VOTING NOW...
NATIONAL SECURITY hangs in the balance for ALL Americans, and these democrat politicians are playing political games...Americans, keep track of how for you this party is. And if there is another attack - DON'T blame our President; blame the new 'slim' Congress.
IT'S SO RIDICULOUS...has anyone told Pelosi and Reid there is an enemy out there who hates us? If there is an attack, because a program to find out the enemy's ways was compromised, Democrats will never win another election. (if of course, there is an America to hold an election in)
5. Posted by ba | November 11, 2006 7:58 AM |
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Posted on November 11, 2006 07:58
6. Posted by ba | November 11, 2006 8:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
p.s. - Wilson in New Mexico is leading over Madrid, Reichert in Washington state, Jean Schmidt of Ohio is ahead of the dem rep, recount for Cubin of Wyoming and Max Burns of Georgia...
We have 208 now...when all the recounts are in, I predict 4 more at least; giving Republicans 212 in the house to the dems 223 - 21 seat difference.
Hardly a mandate to democrat rule.
Conrad Burns of Montana lost by 1 point...personally that deserves another look also in my opinion...but if you notice; unlike if this was a democrat lost; Republicans did not jump up and down whining and moaning...
Republicans are the more mature of spirit...
6. Posted by ba | November 11, 2006 8:07 AM |
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Posted on November 11, 2006 08:07
7. Posted by ba | November 11, 2006 5:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
my mistake...212 for Republicans and 223 for dems is an 11 seat difference when all the votes get recounted...BETTER YET...
just a typo of putting a 2 before the 1 instead of making 21 instead of 11.
11 seat difference...hardly a mandate...
and 49 Repub. seats in Senate to 51 for the dems
is hardly a mandate either...
and Peter Ricketts in Nebraska votes VERY conservatively...even before this election.
(Republicans I heard asked him to switch parties once)
So now we have a 10 seat difference...
NO, Dems have nothing to crow over...
7. Posted by ba | November 11, 2006 5:50 PM |
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Posted on November 11, 2006 17:50
8. Posted by kewgardens | November 11, 2006 10:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
ba --
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
If the GOP holds on in every undecided seat where it is currently leading -- AND wins the December run-off for Bonilla's seat (no sure thing) -- they will only have 203 seats.
That is a 29 seat lose and will mean that the GOP has to pick up 15 Dem seats in 2006 to recapture the majority.
8. Posted by kewgardens | November 11, 2006 10:49 PM |
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Posted on November 11, 2006 22:49
9. Posted by ba | November 12, 2006 7:38 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What do you mean kewgardens? According to Electionprojection; after the 2006 Senate and House races of 2006/the new makeup as it stood Nov. 7 (prior to the above recounts) is 208 seats for the Republicans and 227 for the Democrats.
So now it comes out some of these races are being re-counted ...so if the Republicans win back 4 of the seats...from the results that night in the house - then they hold at least 212 Democrats 223.
11 seat difference.
9. Posted by ba | November 12, 2006 7:38 AM |
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Posted on November 12, 2006 07:38
10. Posted by Jim Addison | November 12, 2006 2:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
No, he is correct.
Election Projection is giving the results as we know them. Notice his totals come to 435, which is all of the seats.
Of the eight seats being recounted/challenged/etc., seven show the Republican candidate in the lead, while only one shows the Democrat ahead, so these seats are currently being scored 7-1 for the GOP.
If the GOP wins ALL 8 seats after all provisionals and absentees and challenged ballots and recounts are complete, the total only goes up by ONE seat - the CT seat where the Democrat leads. The rest of those seats are ALREADY being counted as Republican holds.
10. Posted by Jim Addison | November 12, 2006 2:38 PM |
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Posted on November 12, 2006 14:38
11. Posted by ba | November 12, 2006 9:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
oh, ok Jim, you're saying the 208 as stated at election projection was an assumption that the recounts would be show Republican wins in those races...and if all 8 recounts go the Repub way...
it will be 209 Republicans, 226 Democrats.
17 seat difference...ok, STILL not a mandate
for democrat rule...and Indiana dem reps are not going to rule in favor of any Pelosi voting...
Nor will Ricketts of Nebraska
Nor will any dems from the south, unless they wish the ire of the southerners.
LIBERAL SOCIALISTS are going to be pushed back...and that's a win for CONSERVATIVISM in AMERICA.
but what we really need; is the spirit that unites GOD. E Pluribus Unum...the many become ONE spirit (of laws that uphold the COMMON GOOD!
11. Posted by ba | November 12, 2006 9:39 PM |
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Posted on November 12, 2006 21:39