Electoral Vote.Com notes that 1 House seat is still recorded as a tie. Why is it undecided so long after the election? It cannot be an actual tie, can it?
The race was very close – less than 400 votes separating the two candidates – and there’s evidence of election irregularities caused by electronic voting machines.
Something like 18,000 voters are recorded as not voting for either candidate, despite having voted in other minor races on the same ballot. That’s weird. Usually people vote in the major races and it’s the minor races they leave blank. There’s an investigation going on and a petition is being circulated to rerun the election.
So, not an actual tie, but a very, very close vote coupled with evidence of a potentially serious malfunction in the voting process.
Thank you.
And this is early yet. The vote count in the 1984 election for Indiana’s Eight Congressional District initially went to the Democrat by 72 votes, gave the Republican a 34 vote lead after a state recount, and wasn’t settled until May of 1985 when the leadership in the House of Representatives (after conducting their own recount) decided that Democrat Frank McCloskey had won by four votes.