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Mitchell's apparent win over Hayworth may take a long time to verify
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| Last Edited | karin1492 Nov 10, 2006 03:16pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Arizona Republic (Phoenix) |
| News Date | Friday, November 10, 2006 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Don't expect to learn for several days, and possibly much longer, whether Democrat Harry Mitchell has displaced Republican Congressman J.D. Hayworth.
Countywide, some 200,000 ballots remained to be counted Wednesday, Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell said.
Hayworth's camp was hoping that the unknown number from his 5th Congressional District will favor him enough to overcome Mitchell's current lead of slightly fewer than 6,000 votes.
The state Republican Party was mobilizing 72 volunteers on Wednesday for training to conduct a hand count if a Superior Court judge rules that one is warranted. Democrats said talk about a recount is premature until all ballots have been processed.
A hand count is conducted routinely on 2 percent of the precincts and could be expanded to 4 percent, depending on how many discrepancies are found. A full hand count would follow if differences are high.
The two rivals remained mostly out of view Wednesday, letting their staffs field questions that, for lack of specifics from elections officials, were unanswerable.
The delayed count is caused by Arizona's popular but slow-moving election process that relies on both early voting and regular polling stations.
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