What the heck? 191 votes? Someone tell me again every vote doesn't count.
If there is a recount, who will most likely benefit?
There were over 6000 provisional votes, I'm not sure who that will benefit.
Basically this is what happened last night: Colyer outperformed Early Vote and overall just exceeded expectations, leading many to believe that he would pull it out...only for him to under-perform on JoCo Election Day vote. He won early vote in JoCo by 14 points but appears to only have won ED vote by 1-2 points. Even a small boost to that margin and he'd be claiming victory right now.
JoCo had a lot of irregularities and I'm hopeful that any recount there will benefit Colyer since his margin was surprisingly small. No one is going to request recount, though, until all provisional ballots are in. That won't be under Friday at the earliest, most likely Monday.
At a minimum it's ironic that there were vote count irregularities, however, maybe it should also be taken into account that Kobach is from Overland Park which is a suburb of Kansas City (not that Kansas City has a much larger population.) So, I don't know that it's a surprise that Kobach did relatively well in Johnson County.
It’s like a repeat of the Illinois primary.
