Barnes To File For Recount Monday

By Kleinheider Posted on August 24, 2008 at 11:29 pm

The man Senator Rosalind Kurita beat by 19 votes will wait until the eleventh hour to file:

Barnes had earlier said his petition to the Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee would be filed by Wednesday or Thursday of the past week.

“We’re still working on getting people with affidavits to come forward to tell of the irregularities they saw and experienced,” Barnes told The Leaf-Chronicle.

Over the past couple of weeks, election commissions in Montgomery, Cheatham and Houston counties have all certified the Aug. 7 election results, showing that incumbent state Sen. Rosalind Kurita defeated Barnes by 19 votes.

The combined vote across the three counties on Election Day was 4,477 votes, or 50.06 percent, for Kurita, to 4,458 votes, or 49.93 percent, for Barnes.

Kurita has maintained that the vote speaks for itself, and that Barnes threatens to divide local Democrats by contesting the election.

“It is my hope that calmer and wiser heads will prevail,” Kurita said Friday.

Barnes, by rule, had five days from Monday, when the last vote in Montgomery County was certified, to contest the election. That means today is the fifth day

“Technically, the civil procedure deadline is (today), but because it’s a Saturday, we’ve got until Monday to file,” he said.

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