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Divided House Team Decides Democrat is Indiana Winner
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Edited | Chronicler Apr 15, 2007 09:19am |
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| News Date | Friday, April 19, 1985 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | [New York Times]
Evansville IN (AP) - A United States House of Representatives team decided here tonight that Frank McCloskey, the Democratic incumbent, was the apparent winner by four votes in a bitterly fought recount of the Eighth District congressional election. However, a recommendation to the full House on seating the winner will not be made until [next week].
According to complete but unofficial totals from the federal recount, the third recount in the race, McCloskey defeated Republican challenger Rick McIntyre by 116,645 votes to 116,641. Some House aides called the contest the closest House race in this century.
The vote was announced at a bitterly partisan hearing in the City Council chambers. The outcome became clear after a series of votes by the team on dozens of disputed ballots. The team's two Democratic members repeatedly out-voted the sole Republican.
Rep. William M. Thomas of California, the Republican on the panel, finally quit voting. "It's difficult to sit here and participate when you've been raped," he said...
Neither candidate attended the final session of the recount. The room was packed with more than 100 people, many of them wearing buttons saying "Seat McIntyre" or "Seat McCloskey."
The recount was the first ordered by the House in 24 years...
The House established its own task force to supervise another recount, conducted by a team of auditors from the General Accounting Office who spent three weeks re-counting ballots in the district's 15 counties.
Rejecting proposals to add more votes to the count, the task force voted not to count a number of technically flawed absentee ballots, and to ignore ballot discrepancies in several counties. |
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