Difference of 17 votes in VA AG race: recount appears likely (CNN blog, 11/11)
Not sure if this is the latest info. Just saw this on-line. Put up about an hour or so ago. ~ pinto
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CNN Political Unit
November 11th, 2013
02:42 PM ET
(CNN) - The race for Virginia Attorney General appears headed for a recount, with 17 votes separating the candidates a week after Election Day out of more than 2.2 million ballots cast.
Republican state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain currently has a 0.0015%, lead over Democratic state Sen. Mark Herring, 1,103,443 to 1,103,426 in unofficial results, more than close enough for Herring to petition for a recount.
The Virginia Board of Elections allows any candidate who loses by less than 1% of the vote to make such a petition.
"The race is far from over," Herring told reporters last week.
"The commonwealth has a process to make sure all the votes are counted and we are going to make sure we go through that process," he said. "Right now it is basically 50-50 and the numbers have been moving in our direction all night."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/11/difference-of-17-votes-in-va-ag-race-recount-appears-likely/
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