Posted: December 7, 2008
OH-15 race resolved, Kilroy wins and no recount triggered
Ohio's 15th district congressional race has finally been decided. Mary Jo Kilroy defeated Steve Stivers by 2,311 votes. An automatic recount would have been triggered had the margin been around 1,600 votes. Resolution of this race was help up by a challenge by Stivers supporters to about 1,000 provisional ballots. The Ohio Supreme Court decided Friday that these votes were invalid. Ohio law requires that a determination be made as to the validity of all of the provisional ballots before any are counted. That is why the 26,000 other provisional ballots could not be counted until the suit was resolved. Kilroy faced an even longer delay two years ago in her race against incumbent Deborah Pryce who will retire at the end of her term. See the Dispatch coverage here.
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Commentary
Silence of the Lambs
Dale A. Oesterle
With the election of 2012 now well over and past the second inauguration of the incumbent President, the historical analysis of the events has begun and will last as long as written human history lasts. An interesting tidbit may already be lost to the majesty of the moment.
The voters of three very different states, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Ohio, all had an opportunity to call state constitutional conventions. In each state the voters turned the opportunity down by very similar votes, 68%, 64% and 68% respectively against.
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