Not that the results are going to be any great surprise: Wilson will narrowly "win" and Madrid will contest the results, demanding a recount -- assuming she's got half the balls now that she did when she dared piss off certain key constituencies by halting same-sex marriages in Sandoval County in the super-narrow-minded name of "letter of the law" not actually written into any law.
No reason she should worry about that, though, seeing as her same-party cronies in the Secretary of State's and County Clerk's Offices will by now have had ten full days to manufacture a slim electoral majority for her, during which time most of her queer supporters will have drowned their sorrows in the bars, only to get selectively raided and jailed (not now maybe, but wait 'til next summer) by homophobe Jim Plagens (Deputy Director of the Special Investigations Division within the NM Department of Public Safety).
Yeah, so you got our support, but only to a point. Too bad for you I couldn't bother myself to go canvassing another day for you, which might just have turned out those precious votes you absolutely needed (Precinct 150, anyone?). Your mistake, not mine, elected official. Continue failing to capture our imaginations and you will continue to fail to win elections. Period. Your note in history, if you have one, which is doubtful, will be that you failed to unseat a member of the party in the seat it has controlled since its creation in 1968. Welcome to history, where you ain't nothin' but a reference to a cross-referenced footnote. If that.
The Secretary of State's Official Unofficial Vote Tally page won't load.
Imagine that.
I guess votes only count in this state if you've got broadband access.
So when I am at work, I am a fully empowered citizen, even if I'm being paid specifically to wory about anything but vote tallies. But the minute I clock out, the same minute I can't lay claim to the latest vote tallies, I ain't worth shit.
Then again I could tune in to KUNM, but the music hosts at this hour are no more likely to give election results than the newsreaders are likely to play a really incredible one-of-a-kind cut from some 40-year old vinyl pressing they found buried deep in someone's personal archive.
Ah, the joys of public radio in a world where no one else broadcasts the news.
Here are the official unofficial statewide results as of 11/17/2006 9:52:07 PM from Secretary of State Vigil Giron's website:
UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 1
PATRICIA A. MADRID Democratic 105037 49.8%
HEATHER A. WILSON Republican 105916 50.2%
According to my calculations, 105916 - 105037 = 879 votes to win, out of 210,953 total votes.
The numbers were just updated, with the same exact figures for CD1, at 10:08:46 PM.
And again, at 10:25:25 PM.
And again, at 10:42:05 PM.
And again, at 10:58:44 PM.
And again, at 11:15:24 PM.
Amazing how Secretary of State Vigil-Giron's website goes without update for days on end, then suddenly all the counts are settled right at the moment they're required to be settled under law while being "updated" with what appears to be no new information repeatedly late into the night. A person might be forgiven for thinking that the counters were instructed to give up.
With 22 of 33 Counties reporting. Not that that number means anything, I suppose. After all it's probably just indians and farmers and hippies out there, wherever, I suppose. Not the important people whose votes really count.
22 of 33 Counties reporting, but that's the final tally, and if you don't like it, you can take it to the Mayordomo I suppose.
Anyone up for recounts?
Tweed for Grand Sachem!
Vote the Tammany Tiger!
Nader 2000!
Nader/Camejo 2004!
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