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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Grijalva declared winner in tight District 7 race Grijalva declared winner in tight District 7 race BY CHRIS McDANIEL - SUN STAFF WRITER 2010-11-05 21:48:02 U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) of District 7 has won another term in office after a hotly contested election. Grijalva had declared himself the winner Wednesday, but his Republican opponent, Ruth McClung, will not accept defeat until all the votes are in. However, she will do so if the numbers warrant it, according to the Associated Press. “After all the votes are counted, I'm prepared to concede victory,” she said. Most of the votes in Yuma County have already been accounted for. “All those precincts are in, but what is not in is early ballots that were walked into a polling place on Tuesday and provisional ballots cast by people who had an issue with their voting,” said Matthew Benson, spokesman for the Arizona Secretary of State Office. “Those are the only kinds of ballots that are not in there right now.” According to Yuma County administration, the Recorder's Office still had 1,820 provisional ballots to be verified as of Friday afternoon. The Elections Office, which actually counts each vote, has all the nearly 4,000 remaining late early ballots and are verifying and counting them. The results from the remaining ballots will be known by early next week. According to the Secretary of State website, as of Friday evening, McClung won 44.96 percent of the district's vote with 64,706 votes while Grijalva won 49.35 percent of the votes with 71,033. According to Yuma County, as of Friday evening Grijalva had received just 33.14 percent with 10,118 votes while McClung won 61.49 percent with 18,772 votes. Grijalva, who lost nearly two to one in Yuma County, told Fox 10 News in Phoenix he was not surprised by voters here. “There's nothing I can say to the Yuma voters,” he said. “I've never had the privilege of getting a majority there, and I probably won't have that in the future. You bring projects in, clinics, a new port of entry, and it doesn't seem to have an effect. But the politics are more polarized and more racial in Yuma County than they are in Pima and Santa Cruz, so you deal with what you get.” Of 75,218 registered voters in Yuma county, just 31,248, or 41.54 percent, cast a ballot Tuesday. As of Friday night, statewide, 49.08 percent of eligible voters, or 1,544,353 out of 3,146,418, cast a ballot. Those numbers may fluctuate as the last of the ballots are counted. “In 2006 there was a 49 percent turnout (in Yuma County), but we have a lot more eligible active voters than we did in the 2006 election,” said Yuma County Recorder Robyn Stallworth Poquette. She expects the final number to be around 43 percent, but noted there are more registered voters now than in the past. “We have over 16,000 more active voters than we did in 2006.”
Poster Comment: This guy grijalva should not be tolerated in polite company. because he is the Arizona resident and Arizona congressman who has publicly advocated a boycott of Arizona. He lives here. He is voted into the US Congress by people who live here and he advocates a boycott of Arizona. The mexican politicians in arizona are very racist. Because of the national government's failure to bring order on immigration issues this is what the result is. I think if we had Ronald Reagan's type of leadership in the Republican party, then I think these problems would be smoothed over and we would not be so divided. But the Republican leadership today does not want that. they want the illegal immigrants to be guest workers with crimped legal rights. and they want an un-ending stream of new guest workers for business. With this type of leadership and with all the anti-mexican statements made by so many americans allegedly participating in political statements we end up with a racially divisive situation. ronald reagan wanted for all the illegal immigrants who had held a job for any period of time to be given the opportunity to become US citizens. today's republicans will not do this and apparently under the Obama-crats it is not important either. Obama and the democrats are (I would argue purposely) dysfunctional on this issue resulting that republicans will carry the day on immigration reform. Reagan wanted to force the employers to confirm that new hires are legal. Today's republicns (and democrats too) refuse to do this. All of the employers should be audited as to their employees to see if they're legal or not. When an illegal person is on the payroll the employer should be allowed to let them go and given penalties if they do not. This is the only solution if we really do want to enforce a border. In South carolina the state audits the employers and it works lie a charm, they are able to effectively keep illegal immigrantsfrom working. That Arizona's republicans refuse to do this contributes to the racial division in the state. Grijalvo is the equivalent of a KKK member. For some of you here on 4um this is right down your alley. and as I keep saying, failure to bring order to this issue which involves showing a decent amount of respect to people who were invited here and have been here doing jobs contributes strongly to this racist atmoshphere. the people of Yuma are very unhappy. They voted by a 2-1 margin to eliminate this grijalvo who is anti-Arizona. and they were frustrated because of the racial politics which is common in other places.
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