Posted on 11/12/2013 5:45:36 AM PST by ScottinVA
As we've heard in news reports, "corrections" in absentee ballot totals in Fairfax County and Richmond City have wiped out what was a 1,262-vote lead for Republican Mark Obenshain and given Democrat Mark Herring a 117-vote lead.
Now that I have that piece of misery out of the way, among the takeaways from this are a couple bad-news and good-news elements.
First the bad news... as mentioned above, Obenshain now trails Herring by a razor-thin margin of 117 votes, and Fairfax isn't finished with its counting..
However... (and comes the good news)
This morning, I did a county-by-county check on the VA SBE site and found 42 Virginia counties -- mostly RED ones -- have yet to report their provisional ballot totals. Local news reports indicated the vote totals include at least a partial count of the recorded provisional votes from Fairfax County, so -- if this is true -- most of that county's impact has already been felt. Other deep-blue locales such as Newport News, Hampton, Norfolks, Portsmouth and Arlington have already reported in with their totals.
It comes down to the remaining counties. How much of that deficit will be reduced is anyone's guess, but the main point is... the election for Virginia's next Attorney General is far from over.
Deadline for all reporting is midnight tonight. Here are the numbers as they currently stand as of 8:40 a.m. EST, 12 Nov:
Mark D. Obenshain (R) 1,103,493 49.88% Mark R. Herring (D) 1,103,610 49.89%
Me too...
Or we do an upstate CO and try to secede......maybe.
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