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Owens in office illegally and maybe even with losing vote count?

November 13th, 2009 | Matthew J. Weaver

The Democrats in their desperation for votes on their health care plan may have set themselves up for a rather big embarrassment regarding the special election for New York’s 23rd Congressional District. Bill Owens is not the certified winner, he contested the results November 2, and yet was sworn in by desperate Democrats in Washington. Now, not only may he be in office illegally, he might even lose the vote count once all of the votes are counted and errors in original counts are corrected. It will serve the Democrats right if the results favor Doug Hoffman and Owens has to vacate his seat.

First, the New York State Board of Elections has not certified a winner. The votes are still being counted.

Second, Bill Owens preemptively contested the election to impound the votes and prevent Hoffman from taking the seat if he had won this initial vote count. (Yet, Owens didn’t have the integrity himself to wait for an official result.)

And third, the initial results showing Owens ahead by 3,026 votes turned out to be flawed. Oswego County and others incorrectly reported results. Further, there were over 10,000 absentee ballots to count. Now, Owens lead is just 1,748. That is now less than 1.24 percent of the votes cast!

Counting absentee ballots and rechecking reported vote counts will last into November. Owens challenge needs to be resolved. Further, Hoffman may still win outright or find the results sufficiently close or questionable to mount his own challenge.

I voted for Hoffman. I am increasingly hopeful he’ll pull off an upset. As they say, it ain’t over until it’s over.

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Tags: Bill Owens, Congress, Democratic Party, Democrats, Doug Hoffman, New York, New York State Board of Elections, NY-23

One Response to “Owens in office illegally and maybe even with losing vote count?”

Jay (December 12, 2009 at 5:08 am)

Owens was a B-string candidate. Worse, an accountant. Otherwise, too bad he didn’t win.

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Another attempt, this time by a state legislature, to legalize homosexual marriage is decisively defeated. Traditional marriage stands in New York.
Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic (Der Spiegel)
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The Climate Science Isn't Settled, Confident predictions of catastrophe are unwarranted (Wall Street Journal)
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When scientists behave like bullies (San Francisco Chronicle)
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