As you may or may not know, the pride of AZ-05, aka Foghorn Leghorn, also known as J.D. Hayworth, has not yet conceded the race to former Tempe Mayor Harry Mitchell.
Many Arizonans dropped off their early ballots at the polls on election day. There were also the usual number of provisional ballots, and by some counts, as many as 200,000 ballots statewide remained in need of counting after the numbers came out at the end of election night.
Numbers have been coming out on a daily basis as election officials work through the pile of paper.
More below.......
I'd been appending these numbers to the ends of several other diaries, but I'll collect it all here instead and will stick with it to the finish, for those who are interested.
Another 9,405 AZ-05 ballots were counted Sunday:
Name, Initial total, New total, New votes since start:
Harry Mitchell, 71,077, 85,318, net + 14,241
Foghorn Leghorn, 65,122, 79,792, net + 14,670
Severin (Lib), 4,620, 5,412, net + 792
Total votes was initially: 140,819
Is now: 170,522
Total new AZ-05 votes added: 29,703
After counting those new 29,703 votes, the Foghorn Leghorn Express has managed to carve 429 votes off of Mitchell's initial lead of 5,955 and he now trails by only um......5,526 votes.
At this breakneck pace, the Blustery One will overtake Mitchell if they can only find another 382,608 AZ-05 votes to be counted.
Likely? Well, consider this.
The Arizona statewide total of ballots so far is at 1,322,417 for a 51.5% voter turnout statewide. People have calculated the AZ-05 ballots as being about 20% of the outstanding totals. 382,608 times five makes 1,913,039 votes that would be needed statewide. Add that on to the statewide total already counted, and divide it by the approx 2.6 million registered voters and there you have it.....
Hayworth will catch Mitchell because 126% of the registered voters in Arizona actually cast ballots in this election.
Matt Salmon, the Arizona Republican Party Chairman, who had been quoted as saying, "If you think Hayworth is going to lose this race, then you are in fantasy land."
No wonder the Republicans can't balance a budget if they can't even work through this simple math.
Count 'em and concede, J.D., we're through with you. Good luck in your next career.
ADDENDUM:
Monday ballots added on at the bottom of the comments. I'll summarize it for you. Mr. Fork? Meet Mr. Hayworth.
Tuesday ballots added at end as well. To summarize: All of the rest of the Fork Family? You may as well jump on board as well.