Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Presidential race not over in Missouri

By GottaLaff


Apparently, the fat lady has only been humming:
The presidential contest is still not over in Missouri [...] In fact, the vote count in Missouri is tightening.

Republican John McCain's statewide lead has shrunk to fewer than 5,000 votes, as various counties have recounted and revised their totals from last Tuesday's
election.

Since Election Day, Obama has gained almost 1,000 votes statewide, most of it from St. Louis County.

County election officials have recovered almost 3,200 additional votes in the last few days. Most of them came from various electronic voting machines where the votes had apparently not been tallied by polling place workers during the initial collection of votes.

... [I]t may take another two or three weeks before a winner
is declared.

McCain's latest lead is 4,968 votes, out of more than 2.9 million cast.
They also have to sort through the provisional ballots. Waiting for mo' from MO...

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