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Campaign 2010

Perfection: 1035 For 1035

by Allan Appel | Nov 18, 2010 9:02 am | Comments (4)

At a state-mandated recount of votes cast on Nov. 2 in New Haven’s Annex neighborhood, auditors Wednesday came up with a perfect match—and an idea for change.

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Payback Time

by Paul Bass | Nov 12, 2010 8:07 am | Comments (31)

The city that gave Gov.-Elect Dan Malloy his margin of victory knows what it wants in return. The list might surprise those familiar with campaign IOUs.

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Foley Concedes

by Hugh McQuaid | Nov 8, 2010 3:02 pm | Comments (9)

(Updated: 4:26 p.m.) The Republicans want more answers about voting irregularities in last week’s gubernatorial election, but their candidate, Tom Foley, won’t drag it out.

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Call Him The “Official” Gov-Elect

by Christine Stuart & Paul Bass | Nov 5, 2010 6:10 pm | Comments (24)

(Updated) Nearly three days after polls closed, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced Friday evening that Democrat Dan Malloy beat Republican Tom Foley to the governor’s seat by 5,637 votes. Foley’s campaign, however, said he still wasn’t satisfied with the accuracy of the “ever-changing” count.

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Bungled To The End, Tally Goes To Malloy

by Thomas MacMillan | Nov 5, 2010 8:48 am | Comments (23)

(Updated) An all-night recount gave Democrat Dan Malloy a 13.000-vote lead in Bridgeport in the election for governor and 5,000 statewide—enough to give him the job.  Yet even after an “official” announcement Friday morning, voting registrars were still making adjustments to the tally.

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Undisclosed Bag Of 335 Ballots Opened, Counted

by Thomas MacMillan, Paul Bass, & Christine Stuart | Nov 4, 2010 11:03 pm | Comments (42)

(Updated) Over the objections of the Tom Foley for Governor Campaign, Amy Espinosa cut the seal to a previously undisclosed bag of ballots at 9 p.m. Thursday, and, two days after polls closed, a team of tired Bridgeport poll workers started counting. The fate of Connecticut’s suddenly nuclear election for governor hung in the balance.

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A New Machine Swung Into Action

by Melissa Bailey & Michelle Turner | Nov 4, 2010 7:23 am | Comments (37)

New Haven’s Democratic machine sat out Tuesday’s gubernatorial election—as a team of independent organizers stepped in and cranked out a stunning margin that appears to have helped elect the party’s first Connecticut governor in 24 years.

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Official Results In: Malloy Took City By 18K

by Melissa Bailey | Nov 4, 2010 7:16 am | Comments (12)

(Originally published 5 p.m. Wednesday.) Twenty hours after the polls closed, the city’s registrar of voters released election results showing Democrat Dan Malloy blowing his Republican opponent out of the water by 18,613 votes in New Haven.

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Foley: Show Me The Numbers

by Paul Bass | Nov 3, 2010 1:51 pm | Comments (19)

In a surprise on-air encounter, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley confronted Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewiciz Wednesday for declaring a winner without having official numbers.

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Governor’s Race Map

by Susan Bigelow | Nov 3, 2010 1:32 pm

Dan Malloy and Tom Foley waged one of the tightest gubernatorial elections in recent memory, with the final result coming down to only a few thousand votes. At this time Malloy seems to be the unofficial winner, though major questions remain. So, how did all this unfold? The election map here, assembled from unofficial AP reports, has some of the answers. (Note: there are no results available to me at this time for New Fairfield, Oxford and Ridgefield, those areas are blank on the map.)

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