Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Janice Hahn Alleges GOP 'Voter Suppression Activities' in 36th Congressional Runoff — UPDATED!

At Los Angeles Times, "Vote-suppression complaints filed in testy congressional election."

The California Secretary of State's special election page is here (via Dave Weigel).

Polls close at 8:00pm. Updates throughout the night.

7:00pm PST: AoSHQ links. Thanks!

8:15 pm PST: Polls have closed. Should be getting some data shortly. Meanwhile, at Politico, "CA-36: Hahn, Huey fling mud up until the end."

8:32pm PST: Robert Stacy McCain has a huge election-night roundup: "CA-36: Special Election Night HQ."

8:48 pm PST: Some results coming in with 2.7 percent of the precinct vote counted: Hahn 54.2% and Huey 45.8%.

8:52pm PST: Just saw this at Zombie's, "Janice Hahn’s last-minute sleazeball maneuvers":

And now a Memeorandum thread.

11:30pm PST: At Reuters, "Democrat takes lead in California congressional race":
A Democratic Los Angeles city councilwoman took an early lead on Tuesday in a special election to fill the liberal-leaning California congressional seat vacated by Jane Harman.

Veteran City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, whose brother James once served as Los Angeles mayor, finished first in the May 17 open primary and was favored to win the runoff race in the state's heavily Democratic 36th congressional district.

A Republican businessman with Tea Party backing had looked for an upset victory over Hahn in the district, which runs along the southern Los Angeles County coast from San Pedro to Venice. But he was falling short in early results.

Hahn had 55.1 percent of the vote to 44.9 percent for Craig Huey, with 54 of 261 precincts reporting, according to figures released by the Los Angeles County Department of Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.
And check the County Recorder's numbers. Huey's done.

1 comments:

Serr8d said...

Seriously? Voter suppression? What, someone ask some dumberer than a rock moocher Democrat for a photo ID?

And why are you still in California anyways? Do I need to send suitcases? )