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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 10:32 PM
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Puerto Rican Election Heads to Court
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- With no victor in sight, Puerto Rico has been wrangling for more than a month over disputed ballots in a governor's race that may ultimately be decided in the Boston appeals court. Arguments are set to begin Monday.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether the island's Supreme Court or a U.S. district judge in San Juan should have jurisdiction over thousands of disputed ballots favoring pro-commonwealth candidate Anibal Acevedo Vila of the Popular Democratic Party.

Preliminary election results from Nov. 2 showed Acevedo Vila narrowly ahead of pro-statehood contender, former Gov. Pedro Rossello of the New Progressive Party -- 48.38 to 48.18 percent.

On the ballots in question, voters marked an 'x' for the tiny Independence Party, but they also put marks next to the names of Acevedo Vila and Roberto Prats, the Popular Democratic Party's candidate for nonvoting delegate to U.S. Congress.


http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-puerto-rico-elections,0,4743228.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
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