Puerto Rico: ballot counting resumes
The Orlando Sentinel reports: The recount in Puerto Rico's still-unsettled governor's race resumed Monday as about 20,000 protestors decried the U.S. District Court's intervention in the ongoing controversy.
The recount_stalled for six days after about 150 election workers walked off the job Nov. 23 over how disputed ballots were being handled_got under way only after officials brokered a deal to count those ballots but hold the tally aside. ...
Some 2 million Puerto Ricans cast ballots in the Nov. 2 election between Anibal Acevedo Vila of the Popular Democratic Party and Pedro Rossello of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party. When counting was suspended on election night, Acevedo Vila held a 3,880-vote lead, with some 28,000 disputed ballots remaining uncounted.
In the four weeks since, the island has been in political turmoil over what to do with the ballots, with the commonwealth's supreme court ordering them counted, and the U.S. District Court overriding that decision and requiring that the disputed ballots be set aside until the court can review them. -- KRT Wire | 11/29/2004 | Recount resumes in Puerto Rico