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Charlie Rangel declared victory over State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, but the fight isn't over yet as incumbent's 2,300-vote lead is rapidly shrinking
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jun 29, 2012 04:50pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Juan Gonzalez |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Daily News |
| News Date | Friday, June 29, 2012 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Charlie Rangel's fight to keep his Harlem congressional seat isn’t over yet.
Rangel declared victory Tuesday night, when the Board of Elections tally showed him with a 2,300-vote lead over his main Democratic challenger, State Sen. Adriano Espaillat.
But that slim margin has been shrinking rapidly since then. It fell to 1,075 yesterday, according to The Associated Press. And it could disappear altogether once official results are in next week.
For this confusion, we should thank the perennially incompetent hacks at the Board of Elections.
Amazingly, the Board’s Tuesday night tally listed 79 election districts — 15% of Rangel’s entire congressional district — as recording no votes.
Nada.
Most of those zeroes were in areas like Washington Heights and the South Bronx, where Espaillat, who is seeking to become the first Dominican-American in Congress, happens to have his biggest base of support.
When AP reporters noticed all those zeroes, they immediately rechecked paper tallies the next day. They found 46 districts where people had in fact gone to the polls. They then counted the votes in those districts, and Espaillat suddenly gained some 1,200 votes over Rangel." |
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