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Winner of Kilroy-Stivers race likely won't be known for 10 days
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Nov 05, 2008 07:32pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Columbus Dispatch |
| News Date | Thursday, November 6, 2008 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It's unlikely that voters in central Ohio's 15th Congressional District will know who will represent them in Washington for at least 10 days and maybe not even then.
Republican state Sen. Steve Stivers clung to a 321-vote lead over Democratic Franklin County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy out of more than 250,000 votes counted in the district covering western Franklin County and all of Madison and Union counties.
Still uncounted as of noon that are expected to be released with the unofficial count by 5 p.m.: regular paper ballots cast at the polls yesterday, as well as the absentee ballots cast in person at Vets Memorial on Monday or delivered to the board by the time polls closed yesterday.
Yet to be counted are provisional ballots, which won't be tallied for 10 days; the military and overseas absentee ballots postmarked by the time the polls closed yesterday and received by Nov. 14; any domestic absentee ballots postmarked by Monday that are received by Nov. 14; as well as any of the estimated 5,000 absentee ballots with errors that voters correct by Nov. 14.
Kilroy's campaign predicted that those ballots would melt away Stivers' lead. Provisional ballots, often cast by younger voters and new residents, often skew Democratic. |
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