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Article: Chads? What chads? Why prolong the recount agony in Worcester?(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
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- November 16, 2007
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COLUMN: In our opinion
Are we alone in failing to find a persuasive rationale for Councilor Frederick C. Rushton's pursuit of a hand recount of the Worcester mayoral race?
To be sure, Mr. Rushton, who trailed Mayor Konstantina B. Lukes by 105 votes, has every legal right to seek a recount. Yet a week and a half after Mrs. Lukes made history by becoming the city's first popularly elected female mayor, Mr. Rushton has yet to offer a convincing explanation as to why he believes the initial count was invalid or the result incorrect.
That's not to say he hasn't advanced numerous hypotheses about how the process might have been botched:
The 925 blanks. Mr. Rushton ...