It looks like there are 250k ballots out in Maricopa County and about 35k in AZ-05 Hayworth. Hayworth will need close to 69% of those ballots to go to him to overcome the defecit that he has to Harry Mitchell.
We are all holding our breathe. Please god please get Foghorn Leghorn out of office!
www.harrymitchellforcongress.com
http://www.azcentral.com/...
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.
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Election workers must compare the signatures of voters casting early ballots with the signatures on their registration cards. When early ballots flood in at the last minute, verifying the signatures may take days.
In the 5th District, ballots from all polling places have been counted. Some mail-in ballots also have been counted, but no specific number was available. Those ballots gave Mitchell, a former Tempe mayor and state senator, a lead of 4.3 percentage points.
Many of the outstanding ballots were deposited at polling places or received at the County Recorder's Office on Tuesday, but some were received earlier and 1,300 were "conditional provisional" votes needing verification.
A key question is how many votes remain to be counted in Hayworth's district. Hayworth speculated early in the day that the number could be 100,000. That would mean he would have to carry the untallied vote by a ratio of about 53-47.
again, internally the Mitchell campaign is saying 35k are actually in the district, so its looking good!