The judge still has to rule on what measures to take in order to declare a winner in the race. The BatBlog feels confident Judge Adams will declare a new recount to be held. While holding a new election would be an option, we just don't see that happening. If the new election was declared it would in our opinion invalidate a lot of votes and voters from this past Nov,'s election...It would be impossible to duplicate the conditions and get the same voters (for multiple reasons) to revote as they did in the fall. Also... you would think a new election would have to include all of the other candidates that were in the race as well...three from each party.
Judge Adams needs to appoint a panel of as non partisan as possible, respected area citizens to recount the votes. Keep all the politicos and Larry Wilder types as far away from the process as possible. Have any questions that arise directed toward Judge Adams directly for his ruling...and all votes of all candidates in the council at large case be recounted....
Then and only then can a possible fair ending and result be determined to what someone close to the original recount declared was a real clusterf_ _ _. This is still a mess and truthfully the way it's been handled the real results of this original election probably can never be determined....
it looks like Rodriquez will win any recount.
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DeleteAdams should NOT appoint people from this area --- there is NO way he can find a "nonpartisan" group of respected citizens from this area. Someone would find fault with whoever was appointed. Only appointing people who have no ties whatsoever with Clark County would work --- and they need to come from a FAR distance!! No attorneys or anyone from Clark County should be in the room during the recount.
ReplyDeleteI think there are two things that make it tough to predict who will win another recount.
ReplyDeleteFirst, the counting teams noticed that there seemed to be missing ballots from
the amount counted on election day.
Second, the vote machine representative said that the machines counted marked candidate
names over straight party votes contrary to the statute.
Since the margin for Joshua was small, (15 or 17 votes) those could change.
If so, what if Ron Ellis wins? That could happen too.
Good point Anon. appointing people from another area is a good idea and one observer from each party. Any questions should be answered by the judge and all decisions are final... Allowing politicians and their appointees created this fiasco to begin with....
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