Pajama Boy Wins!
Norm!!!!!
If I lost by less than 800 votes I’d call for a recount, too, so that part doesn’t offend me. What does scare me a bit and what has me calling “bull-—t” on Ortiz is that he wants a “hand recount.” I’ve seen this movie before, and don’t want to see FL 2000 all over again. Of particular concern is the fact the when Gore asked for dimpled chads to be counted he based it on two precedents: the Dem primary in MA-10 in 1996 or so and an election in TX in which several counties had counted dimpled chads. If Ortiz grabs on to that TX precedent and succeeds in allowing Democrat county commissioners to use a subjective standard of determining “voter intent” (which is what counting dimpled chads is—if the chad didn’t break off it is just as likely that the voter changed his mind about voting for the candidate as that he meant to vote for him, but Democrats will err on the’side of giving votes to Ortiz and denying them to Farenthold), Ortiz could steal the election.