"A win's a win": Just one vote decides Kentucky House race

[Stinky The Clown]

A feel good story for our side!

Mary Beverly Goetz is 76, uses a walker and recently had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. Worried her health issues would prevent her from voting for Democrat Jim Glenn in her western Kentucky state House district, she requested an absentee ballot by mail and sent it in weeks ahead of the election to make sure her vote was counted.

Glenn won by one vote.

"It made me feel good," Goetz said. "It made you feel like your vote really counted."

As the nation watches election officials in Florida and Georgia painstakingly review results in high-profile Senate and governor's races, many less prominent races across the country were decided by agonizingly close margins.

Glenn's victory in Owensboro, Kentucky, was one of six state House races decided by a handful of votes. In District 27, Democrat Jeff Greer lost to Republican Nancy Tate by six votes. In District 96, Republican Jill York lost to Democrat Kathy Hinkle by five votes. In District 91, Republican Toby Herald lost to Democrat Cluster Howard by seven votes.

And in Buckhorn, a coin flip allowed alcohol to be sold at a state park after an election there ended in a tie. It was at least the third time this year a coin flip had to decide a tied Kentucky election.

All of the House races were upheld on Thursday by county boards of elections, when a review of results from voting machines did not change the outcomes.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-house-race-democrat-jim-glenn-wins-just-1-vote/

[AlexSFCA]

1. I wonder what happens when the vote is equal

[Jersey Devil]

2. Sometimes they flip a coin or pick a name out of a hat

Yes, I am serious.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/12/21/virginia-election-tie-coin-tosses-picking-names-hat-yep-thats-how-races-decided-probably-never-going/973630001/

[Blue_true]

3. The name pick decided the leadership of the Virginia House of Delegates earlier this year.

It is sad that a medically challenged old woman did what younger democrats don't do, she voted thinking that her vote could make a difference. Imagine if ONE democratic voter that chose not to vote in that pivotal Virginia district had chosen to vote instead.

We need to stop screaming about voter suppression until those of us who can vote all vote strategically, if we do that, voter suppression gets removed because we are a much bigger group.