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Source: Palm Beach Post
Republican U.S. Rep. Allen West has neither conceded nor committed to future challenges after final results from St. Lucie, Martin and Palm Beach counties on Sunday showed Democrat Patrick Murphy winning the congressional District 18 race by 1,904 votes or 0.58 percent.
Murphys margin is just beyond the states 0.5 percent threshold for an automatic recount. And Murphys lead would be 242 votes larger if problem-plagued St. Lucie County hadnt missed Sundays noon deadline for submitting final results after a recount of more than 37,000 ballots from early voting.
The states Elections Canvassing Commission will meet Tuesday morning in Tallahassee to give final certification to all elections results from across the state. Once the results are certified, West would have 10 days to contest the election a decidedly uphill proposition.
We will be discussing how we will move forward at some point tomorrow, West campaign spokeswoman Michele Hickford said today.
Read more: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2012/11/west-watch-no-concession-no-decision-on-challenging-apparent-murphy-win/
The time has come.
The time is now.
Allen Bernard West
Will you please go now!