08-27-2014, 03:36 AM
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Originally posted by Mendo
Top challenger Roy Lozano's neighbors in Pohoiki were blocked in on election day, as were the huge numbers of voters in Nanawale, where challenger Madie Green has long been active.
Because of the timing of the storm, before those two precincts were closed, Ilagan and Lozano were in a runoff, 40% to 27%. Greene and Naole were already out of any runoff. After the delayed votes, Ilagan had 54% and Lozano had 19%. While your claim that Pohoiki and Nanawale would have made a difference, the reality is those precincts have very low voter turnout anyway. Puna does not have a high percentage voter turnout, the total in the district voting for a council member is less than 1,000. This is from a district that is claiming 45,000 population total. Your assumption errs in believing there was some hidden swaying number of voters in the two delayed precincts. Evidence points to this not being the case. Not that Ilagan should have been allowed to breeze through, but the numbers were just not there.
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