Add Minerva Peña to Gloria Rincones in asking for a recount of the races they lost.
Peña came in third of four candidates for Justice of the Peace Precinct 2, Place 3 with 2,381 votes, 108 behind runoff candidate Pete Avila, with 2,489. Mary Esther Garcia failed to garner the 50 percent plus 1 vote needed to win with 2,628. Albert Garcia came in fourth with 1,133.
According to Election Department rules, each candidate requesting a recount will be charged $100 per precinct and the early vote. In Peña's case, it will total 45 precincts for a total cost of $4,500.
Rincones, on the other hand, will have to shell out $10,300 to pay for the recount of 102 precincts plus the early vote. She and Magallanes faced off each other for the Democratic Party nomination for the 357th District Court. Rincones trailed Juan Magallanes with 119 votes.She got 8,048 to Magallanes 8,167.
Elect ions department employees said that it hasn't been decided where and when the Peña recount will be held, while the Rincones recount is scheduled for Monday.
"She's paying $4,500 for a recount and she didn't even pay for that many campaign signs," said a courthouse watcher. "Usually, the differences are tiny, maybe four or five votes. Let's see what comes out in the end."
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No one likes the ugly old hag?
Juan
Is it true that the city is going to move that Stillman house? Looks like Shergold's complaint got their attention.
Hoping to see a recount of the clerk's race! Smells fishy, very fishy.
Also, the $10,000 is just a deposit. The actual cost should be much less for a machine recount, just feeding ballots into the machine for an hour, and paying a few staff to be there to oversee it while the machine spits out the numbers. The majority of that money will most likely be refunded to the candidate. Guessing total cost $3500, for a county wide race? where it gets expensive is a hand recount, paying people by the hour to count each ballot one by one. But a machine recount is fast and cheap.
Hey Minerva Pena, did that convicted felon and child predator, Steven or Martin Brooks give you the money for testifying on his behalf???
minnie mouse thought you didnt have any money my dear, humm, guess i was wrong, probably hiding all that campaign funds right? CCA
minnie no que no tronabas pistolita? ms
(She's paying $4,500 for a recount)
Rumor is she was spotted in Kinder, La. just last weekend. Probly trying to get rid of the "evidence$$$".
No one likes that old Hag. I don't like her either but she gets a lot of votes someone does.
If Minerva Peña had a brain inside her Skull she'd be dangerous to Humanity.
Don't you have anything better to do than hate on Minerva Catita? Wow mijita,....go to church and pray for forgiveness.
Let's hope this re-count disqualifies Pete "Sexual Abuser" Avila. If Rincones were to win, that would be good for Elia Conejo Lopez and bad for Gilberto Hinojosa and his corruptors.
Poor minerva wants to win at all cost?
What is with those bangs?
My bet is, like when Chirinos ran, they "find" votes they forgot to count.
With those bangs she's be a hit with Porky Pigg!!!
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