Concession in North Carolina's 8th district

[Amianthus]

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- With defeat looking inevitable, Larry Kissell conceded Wednesday that he had been beaten by GOP Representative Robin Hayes in North Carolina's Eighth Congressional District.

The concession came after the first day of a hand recount requested by Kissell. The counting was to continue Thursday.

Kissell trailed Hayes by just 329 votes out of more than 121-thousand cast following a machine recount last week. He gained only two votes Wednesday during a hand recount from a small sample of precincts. He probably would have needed to pick up another eight to 10 votes Thursday to force a full hand recount of every ballot cast in the election.

The race was one of the last unresolved U-S House races in the nation.
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[Plane]

Wow ,that is close.


We would save so much time if we were to make every election that landed within an agreed on margin of error a draw and settle them with a coin flip.

You can't call that unfair.