Rayla Campbell's virtually unprecedented bid to get 2,000 write-in votes to get on the November general election ballot against U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) came up short.
The Randolph Republican got 1,202 votes in the Republican primary for the Seventh Congressional District, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth's office told New Boston Post on Wednesday — almost 800 short.
The Massachusetts Republican Party is not happy with the way vote counting has gone in a couple of elections in the state, arguing that it may cost a couple of GOP candidates from making the ballot this November.
As of the end of the business day Tuesday, September 8, one week after the September 1 statewide primary election, there was still no word from the state on whether or not Randolph Republican Rayla Campbell received the 2,000 write-in votes she needed to earn the party's nomination in Massachusetts's Seventh Congressional District; if successful, she would run against U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester), a member of The Squad.
