Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Don Wagner's victory not quite in the bag

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     Earlier today, the OC Reg’s Martin Wisckol posted a slightly surprising update on the the 70th AD race:

Wagner on top in tight Assembly race

     After trailing most of the evening Tuesday, Don Wagner pulled ahead of Steven Choi around midnight in the Republican primary to replace outgoing Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine. With all precincts counted, Wagner’s lead was 879 votes – but has since shrunk slightly to 860.
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     "I'm not picking out my Capitol furniture just yet," Wagner joked Wednesday morning.
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     Election results have been the lesser part of Wagner’s emotional whirlwind. His son Paul, 20, was found dead in his car Saturday….
     “I am pleased with the current situation with the votes,” Wagner, a 49-year-old Irvine lawyer, said Wednesday. “But last night was perhaps the second toughest night in my life. Paul was very invested in this race and he would have been dancing.”
     While Irvine Councilman Choi prevailed with mail ballots, the later voting favored Wagner. Once the final ballot is counted and the election is certified, Choi has five days to request a recount….


Later, on Total Buzz, Wisckol remarked

     Don Wagner remains atop the leader board in the topsy turvey 70th Assembly District GOP primary. While his lead slipped slightly with the 7,505 provisional, paper and mail ballots counted today, the pace [of] the lost votes is far less than would by needed for Steven Choi to catch him.

     A couple of hours ago, Voice of OC’s Tracy Wood posted a somewhat broader story: More Than a Third of OC Primary Ballots Have Not Been Counted.

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