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For the second time this week, Conservative Party congressional candidate Douglas L. Hoffman sought to rescind his concession in the special election in New York’s 23rd district, telling supporters that new information showing the results of the election closer than believed on election night made him reevaluate his decision to throw in the towel.

“I am therefore revoking my statement of concession,” he wrote in a fundraising letter titled “Stop Another Stolen Election!” and posted on his Web site Wednesday night.

“ACORN and the unions did their best to try and sway the results to Obamacare supporter Bill Owens,” he told supporters, naming the Democrat who claimed victory and has been seated in the House of Representatives, though election results will not be certified until next month. “I was forced to concede after receiving two pieces of grim news – - down 5,335 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted on election night — and barely won my stronghold in Oswego County. On Election Night, the information we received was far different from what we received this week!”

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Jerry O. Eaton, Jefferson County Republican elections commissioner, told the Times that Hoffman’s allegations of ballot-tampering and the election having been manipulated or stolen are “absolutely false.”

“No one has touched those ballots or has access to those ballots except board of elections staff — and in a bipartisan manner,” he said.

Brian Kettenring, ACORN’s deputy director of national operations, called Hoffman’s accusations unworthy of serious response. “We confess we stole the election in the 23rd and our lead staff person for it was Elvis Presley,” he said sarcastically. “He ran a first rate organizing effort in the district and we’re proud of his work.”

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Wrong wingers are the worst loosers and they are insufferable winners to boot.

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