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From WaPo:
Democrat Danny O’Connor not conceding in Ohio, with thousands of ballots left to count
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/live-updates/midterms/live-primary-election-results/democrat-danny-oconnor-not-conceding-in-ohio-with-thousands-of-ballots-left-to-count/?utm_term=.a42239f0fdf7
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But Democratic nominee Danny O’Connor has yet to concede — and the Associated Press has yet to call the race.
Why? With 100 percent of precincts reporting, and with the early vote counted, Balderson leads O’Connor by 1,754 votes out of 202,521 votes cast. That’s fewer votes than the number of outstanding ballots across the district. There are 5,048 absentee ballots left to count, and 3,435 provisional ballots — cast by voters who do not appear on the rolls, but are willing to sign affidavits saying that they are eligible to participate.
It’s rare, but not impossible, for election results to be overturned when absentee votes skew hard in one direction. O’Connor’s campaign, which dominated the early vote and focused on turning infrequent voters to the polls, believes that it outperformed with this final pool of voters. Ohio’s Secretary of State Jon Husted has also carried out purges of infrequent voters, a sore spot for Democrats.
Provisional ballots won’t be counted until Aug. 17, and the winner of Tuesday’s race won’t be seated until the House returns to work on Sept. 4. And both O’Connor and Balderson will face voters again on Nov. 6, having both won their party’s primaries for the general election.
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But Democratic nominee Danny O’Connor has yet to concede — and the Associated Press has yet to call the race.
Why? With 100 percent of precincts reporting, and with the early vote counted, Balderson leads O’Connor by 1,754 votes out of 202,521 votes cast. That’s fewer votes than the number of outstanding ballots across the district. There are 5,048 absentee ballots left to count, and 3,435 provisional ballots — cast by voters who do not appear on the rolls, but are willing to sign affidavits saying that they are eligible to participate.
It’s rare, but not impossible, for election results to be overturned when absentee votes skew hard in one direction. O’Connor’s campaign, which dominated the early vote and focused on turning infrequent voters to the polls, believes that it outperformed with this final pool of voters. Ohio’s Secretary of State Jon Husted has also carried out purges of infrequent voters, a sore spot for Democrats.
Provisional ballots won’t be counted until Aug. 17, and the winner of Tuesday’s race won’t be seated until the House returns to work on Sept. 4. And both O’Connor and Balderson will face voters again on Nov. 6, having both won their party’s primaries for the general election.
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