Barber closes gap, Sinema widens lead in AZ races

[lonestarnot]

PHOENIX (AP) - The hand-picked successor to former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is now nearly even with his Republican 2nd Congressional District challenger as votes continue to be tallied from Tuesday's election.

Democrat Ron Barber trailed Republican Martha McSally by just 81 votes early Friday.

Both Republicans and Democrats believe they'll win the race in the end as votes from Cochise and Pima counties are added. Cochise County has about 11,000 votes yet to count and all of them are in the 2nd District. Pima has about 82,000 votes to count, but it's not known how many are in 2nd District.

The lead for Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in the race to fill the Phoenix-area's new 9th Congressional District widened Friday. Republican Vernon Parker is trailing by more than 3,800 votes.

http://www.kpho.com/story/20055074/barber-closes-gap-sinema-widens-lead-in-az-races

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Somebody decided to count a few more votes! Yeah Kirsten! Looks also like Pima county can count to 10 faster than the folks in Maricopa County.

[DURHAM D]

1. Is there a deadline for counting?

Glad to see the numbers for Sinema and hope Barber gets a win. It is looking good for him.

[lonestarnot]

2. Election needs to be certified 10 days post as is my understanding.

Both of them!

[oldhippydude]

3. another Arizona question...

i of course was watching the Carmona / Flake race... the last i heard is that Flake won... was flakes lead larger than the number of uncounted ballots?

[lonestarnot]

4. Carmona has not officially conceded. I do not know the vote count as of today.

I would be curious to know if someone else here does.

[oldhippydude]

5. ok thanks ..that's more than i have known since Tuesday

damn i wanted that senate seat... hoping that we could pry it away this election, start the turn to blue a little early..

its also beyond me how Arpio keeps getting re-elected/

[DURHAM D]

6. I found this. It was posted 2 hours ago.

Arizona election results: 524,633 early, provisional ballots yet to be counted


Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/state/arizona-election-results-524633-early-provisional-ballots-yet-to-be-counted#ixzz2Bmdol6EE