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ESCOBEDO SAYS CHIRINOS WINS BY 10 OVER GILL-MARTINEZ
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />After a marathon recount that lasted from 8 am.m. Tuesday to 4:35 Wenesday morning, Jose Hector Chirinos was found by recount supervisor and Brownsville Independent School District president Enrique Escobedo to be the winner of Place 7 over Linda Gill-Martinez.<br />The recount left the totals at 14,726 for Chirinos and 14,716 for Gill-Martinez, a differnece of 10 votes.<br />Chirinos joins Otis Powers, Minerva Peña, Lucy Longoria, Catalina Presas-Garcia, Ecobedo and Christia Saavedra on the board.<br />From the beginning, the problems associated with the recount were evident because Cameron County Elections Administrator had not provided separate ballot boxes for the general election ballots and the district voting. As a result, the boxes had to be opened and the two ballots separated by hand for the recount.<br />Further, the counting machines used at the precincts on election day were malfunctioning for varied amounts of time in numerous polling places, hampering the voting and having the ballots placed in unsecured yellow plastic bags while the glitches in the machines were repaired.<br />Chirinos had previously been certified as the winner before the recount was requested by Gill-Martinez.<br />At the outset Escobedo had told the recount group that they were not there to change any votes, challenge any of the ballots, or to take votes or give votes to anyone.<br />"We're here to count what there, and that's all," he said.<br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7081695231062882526?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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