You may or not know, that this race still remains too close to call, even though both candidates, Democrat Dan Malloy and Republican Tom Foley claim to be the state's 88th governor.

It seems that there were problems with not enough ballots to go around in the state's largest city, Bridgeport. With about 72,000 registered voters, there were only 21,000 ballots.

This forced election officials to scramble and a judge allowed the polls to remain open an extra 2 hours to allow voters who were turned away earlier in the day because their precincts lacked balllots for voters to cast their votes.

Not surprisingly, Republican multimillionaire Tom Foley cried foul and lawyered up rather quickly claiming voter fraud. Bridgeport has a large minority population and tends to swing Democrat.

As for former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, the Democrat, he announced a transition team, rather prematurely in my view. And The Secretary of the State, a Democrat, also announced "unofficial" returns that favored Malloy.

As Yogi Berra once opined, "it isn't over 'til it's over," it would have made much sense for each candidate to remain quiet ( a herculean task) and let this flawed process run its course and see what the outcome was.

Connecticut law mandates an automatic recount if the margin of victory is less than 2,000 votes. this morning's on line version of The New York Times  reports that Bridgeport has finally concluded its ballot tally and according to Mayor Bill Finch, Malloy received 17,800 votes to  Foley's 4,075 votes which unofficially give Malloy over a 5,000 vote margin.

Needless to say that we haven't heard the last of this story, and most interesting tidbit that I get from this election contest, is that there is not a clear mandate for either candidate. Our electorate is really split, here.

Now that we're almost ten years out from the Florida election debacle, we seem to be no closer in being able to have elections that don't give voters and candidates the appearance of  fraud or tampering.