More than one, is my guess.
Rep. Morgan Meyer
On Wednesday, Dallas state Rep. Morgan Meyer, a Republican, tweeted that he was “honored and grateful” voters had decided to send him back to the Texas Legislature for another term in office.
But his Democratic opponent in the race, Joanna Cattanach, isn’t ready to concede in House District 108, which includes Park Cities, Uptown Dallas, parts of downtown and Old East Dallas.
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In Houston, Republican state Rep. Dwayne Bohac inched ahead of Democratic challenger Adam Milasincic on election night with 137 votes. Milasincic, too, is waiting on all votes to come in.
“I want to see the final numbers before we make any determination one way or another,” Milasincic said, adding that he hadn’t expected the count to draw out this long.
In Houston, Republican state Rep. Dwayne Bohac inched ahead of Democratic challenger Adam Milasincic on election night with 137 votes. Milasincic, too, is waiting on all votes to come in.
“I want to see the final numbers before we make any determination one way or another,” Milasincic said, adding that he hadn’t expected the count to draw out this long.
“I wish it had been over on election night,” he said.
In Collin County, state Rep. Matt Shaheen, R-Plano, with 378 more votes in unofficial returns, declared victory over Democrat Sharon Hirsch.
But Hirsch posted a message on her website noting the close margin and adding that she is “waiting until this process concludes before making any final remarks.”
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State Rep. Mike Schofield, R-Houston, who trailed Democrat Gina Calanni by 49 votes, told his supporters on social media Thursday morning that “Tuesday’s results are not final yet.”
“The Harris County Clerk advises me that there are many votes yet to be counted — more absentee ballots and provisional ballots. We will continue to wait for a final vote count.”
And of course there’s the still-unsettled CD23 race. Meyer leads Cattanach by 440 votes, which is the widest margin of the it-ain’t-over-till-it’s-over State Rep races. I can’t think of an example of a race that was materially affected by overseas and provisional ballots – my impression is that such votes tend to be countable on one’s fingers – but I suppose there has to be a first time at some point. The last successful recount that I can think of was the 2004 Dem primary between Henry Cuellar and Ciro Rodriguez, in which a bunch of ballots were found after Election Day. This is all part of the process and people are entitled to ask for recounts. I just don’t ever expect them to change anything.
Gina Calanni D132 is up by 97 votes now – I think based off of the absentee ballots.
At 12:20 p.m. Saturday, the Dallas Elections site reports that Meyer’s lead is down to 272 votes. Harris County posted new data Thursday evening showing Bohac’s lead has shrunk to 72 and Schofield’s loss has grown to 97.
I do recall a very few elections which changed after recounts over the years. The largest clump was about 1994 when a write in campaign for a judge resulted in later hand counting of a set of ballots and a flip in State House 144 where Rep. Fogo was upset by Robert Talton, and about 4 judge contests flipped, but that was not really due to provisional ballots.
Does anyone know where Harris County is in the voting count? are there still many provisionals left to count?
Actually, the 1994 situation did not involve a recount, just a delay in conducting the final count.
Probably need to bring in Brenda Snipes from Florida to help count the ballots here, once she finishes throwing the Florida election with all those “gee, we just found these Broward County votes.”