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TexasTowelie

(111,297 posts)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 03:03 AM Nov 2018

A close call: Just 1 vote decided this Kentucky House race

FRANKFORT, KY. -- For an example of how every ballot matters, turn to Mary Beverly Goetz.

The 76-year-old Kentucky woman said she voted absentee on election day because she uses a walker and recently had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. The Democrat she voted for ousted a Republican incumbent by just one vote.

Democrat Jim Glenn defeated Republican state Rep. DJ Johnson by that narrow margin out of more than 12,600 ballots cast. It was one of six state House races that were too close to call on election night. Thursday, a review voting machine totals upheld those results. But some candidates are considering asking for recounts.

The agonizingly close races come as the nation watches election officials in Florida and Georgia painstakingly review results in high-profile Senate and governors' races.

Read more: https://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/article221756860.html

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A close call: Just 1 vote decided this Kentucky House race (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2018 OP
Go, granny go! Good for this vote and all the others who helped oust another Rethug Liberty Belle Nov 2018 #1
Time for them Scarsdale Nov 2018 #3
K & R SunSeeker Nov 2018 #2
Va House race was decided last January with a draw from a bowl underpants Nov 2018 #4
Every vote counts. marble falls Nov 2018 #5
The best anecdote I remember... malthaussen Nov 2018 #6

Liberty Belle

(9,528 posts)
1. Go, granny go! Good for this vote and all the others who helped oust another Rethug
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 03:08 AM
Nov 2018

In Kentucky, hardly a bastion of liberalism.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
3. Time for them
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 05:29 AM
Nov 2018

to oust McConnell. He has been much too comfortable in that position, while doing next to nothing for the people of Kentucky. Sure has made himself wealthy, though.

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
6. The best anecdote I remember...
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 11:04 AM
Nov 2018

... was many years ago in some state legislature race or other. Both of the candidate's parents voted for his opponent "to be nice," and he lost by one vote.

-- Mal

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