Puerto Rico: Acevedo Vila is the winner
Reuters.com reports: Nearly two months after votes were cast, Puerto Rico's election authorities announced a winner, Anibal Acevedo Vila, on Thursday after a recount and disputes over the validity of thousands of votes.
The State Elections Committee of Puerto Rico announced Acevedo Vila, candidate for the Popular Democratic Party, as winner of the Nov. 2 election. Acevedo Vila favors the status quo for the U.S. Caribbean territory's relations with the United States.
A mandatory recount after the vote dragged on for weeks amid legal disputes over mixed-vote ballots in the island of 4 million people. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on Wednesday denied a petition by the losing New Progressive Party and its candidate, former two-term governor Pedro Rossello, for a rehearing over the case.
Several thousand double-split ballots featuring a mark under a party insignia and marks for governor and resident commissioner -- the territory's nonvoting representative in the U.S. Congress -- from another party had been separated from the recount after Rossello filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court of San Juan. -- Politics News Article | Reuters.com