Posted: November 25, 2008
OH-15: Stivers leads by 594 votes
Steve Stivers now leads Mary Jo Kilroy by 594 votes since Madison Couty finalized its vote count. Stivers gained more votes that Kilroy among provisional and absentee ballots there. The race will be decided by the roughly 27,000 provisional ballots cast in Franklin County and perhaps by the small portion of them being challenged in State ex rel. Skaggs v. Brunner. That case will be decided next week by the Ohio Supreme Court. See the most recent Columbus Dispatch report here.
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