The following comes from a July 24 story on Fresno’s KFSN TV station website.
The hotly contested race for an open State Senate seat in the Valley is leaning Republican Wednesday morning.
As of Wednesday morning, with 100 percent of precincts reporting, Republican Andy Vidak is out in front with 54 percent of the vote, while Democrat Leticia Perez has 46 percent.
But the race is still too early to call. Even though all precincts have reported, thousands of late absentee and provisional ballots will have to be counted — meaning a final result may not be known for at least a couple of days.
Democrats hope to hold the seat to protect their super-majority status in the state senate — prompting a flood of campaign contributions and a flurry of negative ads.
Republican Andy Vidak, a cherry farmer, won just shy of 50 percent of the vote in the May primary, sparking the runoff against Perez — a Kern County supervisor. Although she’s trailing at the polls in the special election Wednesday morning, she told Action News she is optimistic she will win the race.
Perez’ campaign manager said he expects her to close the spread after Fresno County fully reports and the late ballots are counted.
But both said the gap appears to be narrowing as returns are being tallied.
“It is to be expected with early ballots in from Kings County, but we know so many counties and precincts in Kern have not yet been counted. The same is true about Fresno where our strongest support is,” said Leticia Perez, (D) State Senate Candidate.
“We are still cautiously optimistic it’s not over until it’s over,” said Andy Vidak (R), State Senate Candidate, “We are just cautiously optimistic we have run a very good campaign and common sense has no party lines we will just see how it turns out.”
At Vidak’s election party at his ranch near Hanford Tuesday night, Vidak said the trends are also looking good for him.
County clerks in Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern counties now have to count the provisional ballots and the absentee ballots turned in at the polls on election day before declaring a winner. That process could take several days, or even weeks.
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“But the race is still too early to call. Even though all precincts have reported, thousands of late absentee and provisional ballots will have to be counted — meaning a final result may not be known for at least a couple of days.”
Yes, still plenty of time for the Dems to steal the election.
Tom,
This time they failed and Vidak won by a healthy margin in a Democrat District. PRAISE GOD AND HIS MOTHER!
I understand Vidak did not make a big deal about being pro-life, but I also understand he is pro-life!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
This report by KSFN TV is about 1 day old and a little data-challenged: the KERO TV website has more accurate data. As of today 7/25/2013, Leticia Perez has conceded the race (she is behind 5800 votes, 100% of polls reporting, and about 9000 absentee and provisional ballots left to count). Numerically she could win: but it would be prima facie evidence of voter fraud if she did. 2 Things to note: (1) This election should never have been held, but in the spring election, large amounts of provisional ballots were dumped at the polls in the last hours by the SEIU (I suspect), which reduced Vidak’s lead to <50%, forcing a runoff. Still, this district has been solidly Obama, so if it stands up, it is a big win for the anti-Demon-crat faction. (2) This district (CA 16th State) has since been re-drawn, so Vidak will have a tough time I suspect next election (Nov. 2014): the old district looked like a traditional almost rectangular shape. The new 16th district looks like a bear standing on its tail, with strange loops and legs going into D-crat strongholds, we can surmise.
Dems don’t lose. They’ll find a way to cheat and win. Butchering and dismembering babies in the womb is just too important to allow a Republican to win. Satan wouldn’t approve if the Dems didn’t cheat and win.
Juergensen,
This time the Demonrats Lost! Praise God and His Mother.
If Vidak keeps his nose clean and sticks to principles, he will get the farmers vote and many votes of the Democrats who stil l have a brain next time as well.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher