Another Tight Race
Thursday, December 02, 2004 - 03:24 PM
The undecided races for mayor of San Diego and governor of Washington State have gotten a lot of attention recently. But for many New Yorkers, the empty seat to watch belongs to the Governor of Puerto Rico.
When election workers stopped counting votes on the night of November 2, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá held a lead of almost 4,000 votes over Pedro Rosselló. But 28,000 disputed ballots have not yet been counted, and now a Puerto Rican court and a US district court are at odds over whether they should be counted at all.
The standoff is laden with even more significance because Rosselló wants Puerto Rico to become a US state, while Vilá prefers to keep the island's status as a free commonwealth.
Tomorrow on the show: guest host Chris Bannon finds out more from Juan Manuel Garcia Pasaluca, a host of a talk show on WUNO in San Juan.
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