On 11/20/09 1:33 PM, jps wrote:
Why did Hoffman concede in the first place? That I’d credit to the
campaign’s overconfidence.




Delicious...from CBS News:

There are not enough outstanding votes left for Doug Hoffman, the
Conservative Party candidate who conceded-and-then-unconceded following
his apparent loss in the closely-watched NY-23 House race, to catch his
opponant.

The Watertown Times reports that Democrat Bill Owens now leads Hoffman
by 3,105 votes with only 3,072 absentee ballots to be counted. Even if
every one of those ballots went to Hoffman, he still couldn't close the gap.

Hoffman formally announced Wednesday that he was withdrawing his
election night concession, echoing a comment on Glenn Beck’s radio show.
He blamed community-organizing group ACORN for stealing the election,
though he provided no evidence.

Owens was sworn into Congress earlier this month, and he voted in favor
of the health care reform bill that narrowly passed the House.

There is speculation that Hoffman's decision to question the election is
a fundraising gambit aimed at recouping some of the personal funds he
spent on the race.

Hoffman's Web site features a story entitled "VIRUS in the VOTING
MACHINES" that alleges "The computerized voting machines used by many
voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus - tainting the results,
not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting
doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines."


Virus in the brain is more likely... :)




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