Bysiewicz: Malloy Winner Of Governor's Race in CT

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Source: The Hartford Courant

The Hartford Courant

Bysiewicz: Malloy Winner Of Governor's Race
November 03, 2010 - 01:05PM ET

By CHRISTOPHER KEATING
12:39 p.m. EDT, November 3, 2010

HARTFORD — "....Dannel Malloy has won the election for governor, and there will be no statewide recount, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced this afternoon…..Even though votes in the governor's race were still being counted, both Democrat Dan Malloy and Republican Tom Foley were inching closer to declaring victory Wednesday morning…..Meanwhile, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said if there is a recount, it could be weeks before the winner is known…..Republicans intend to challenge any ballots cast after 8 p.m. at 12 polling places in the city. Those votes were being counted as provisional ballots and would be kept separate from the others, the judge ruled. "There's no way of knowing if people were turned away or just saw on television that people could vote past 8 p.m.," said Kevin O'Connor, a former U.S. Attorney who represented Foley at the hearing Tuesday. "Depending on the outcome of the election, every one of those ballots will be challenged as being an illegal vote."…Bysiewicz said Wednesday it would be a "grave miscarriage of justice not to count those ballots" from the last two hours of Bridgeport...."

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