Recount shows Pinga winning R.I. primary
Published: October 3, 2008
PROVIDENCE—A recount at the Rhode Island Board of Elections confirms challenger Michael Pinga as the winner of a state Senate Democratic primary in West Warwick.
The recount showed Pinga beating incumbent Sen. Stephen Alves by 17 votes. Alves, a powerful lawmaker, had served as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
The recount came after the state Supreme Court on Thursday ordered election officials to recount all the provisional, mail-in and regular ballots cast in the primary.
An earlier recount showed Pinga winning by 19 votes. At the time, the board did not recount mail-in and provisional ballots.
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This is truely a great start for the people (Read that as TAXPAYERS) of the State of Rhode Island.
The true test of not only the resolve but the intelligence of the voters will come in November; when they have an opportunity to clean house (not just figuratively) and put a more ‘representative’ government to work in the Statehouse. We’ve allowed them to run amuck for too long.
Voting Alves out is a great start Rhode Island
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