Kissell "intends to seek a machine recount"

[SaveAmerica]

For anyone still interested in the race in NC-08;

http://www.wsoctv.com/politics/10345014/detail.html

County Election Boards Meet To Certify Results; Big Races At Stake

POSTED: 12:27 pm EST November 17, 2006

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- County election boards met across North Carolina on Friday to certify results of the Nov. 7 election, with a congressional seat and the future of state House Speaker Jim Black at stake.

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Hayes' attorneys have petitioned to have the bulk of the provisional ballots cast in the race thrown out, a tactic that has drawn criticism from Kissell and the state Democratic Party. Provisional ballots are filled out by voters whose names do not show up on precinct rolls on Election Day, and Democrats are counting on those votes to narrow or erase Hayes' margin.

Some other counties have already counted their provisionals. Hayes netted five votes in Union County earlier this week, while Kissell picked up 16 votes Thursday in Cumberland County.

Kissell, a schoolteacher whose grass-roots campaign ran much closer than expected to the well-funded Hayes, has said he intends to seek a machine recount, then possibly a hand recount of optical scan ballots cast in the race.

[SaveAmerica]

1. A little more information:

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149191754210&path=%21localnews&s=1037645509099

"I will be submitting a letter of request for a machine recount in every county in the ... district with the North Carolina Board of Elections," Kissell said in a statement Friday. "I'm hopeful that we will pick up the required votes needed to win once all the Mecklenburg County provisional ballots are counted tonight and a district wide machine recount is conducted next week."

With all of the district's 10 counties except Mecklenburg haivng report official results to the state board, the Republican incumbent Hayes led with 60,895 votes to 60,490 for Kissell, his Democratic challenger.

Mecklenburg County accounted for about 13 percent of the ballots cast on Nov. 7, and Kissell won about two thirds of those votes. The section of Mecklenburg County included in the 8th District includes some of Charlotte's most liberal precincts.

Provisional votes and other adjustments in the nine counties that had reported official results by 4 p.m. Friday _ Anson, Cabarrus, Cumberland, Hoke, Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland Stanly and Union _ trimmed that margin.

[NCarolinawoman]

2. Thanks for the information.

I am really glad we have a Democratic Secretary of State and a Democratic Attorney General. What ever the results (please let it be Kissell), I will just feel better about it. I will know that those two Democrats will be looking over people's shoulders. Unlike Ohio.