The election results you’ve seen are unofficial.  The final official canvas is November 18th.  On that day, we will count any provisional ballots that have been validated and any absentee ballots which are postmarked on or before Monday, November 3 (or which have no postmark but are dated on or before Monday, November 3).

With that in mind, here are the potential votes that could come in.  319 people cast provisional ballots.  We’ll begin the work of validating those in the coming days.  There are 576 absentee ballots that have been sent to voters but not returned.  That’s a total of 895 possible votes left to count.

In 2004, we had 292 people vote provisional.  We had 315 absentee ballots that had been sent but not returned.  Of those, 64 provisional ballots were counted and 123 absentee ballots ended up being returned to us.

Clearly, the interest in this election was high, even though the turnout numbers don’t differ much from 2004.  So perhaps more of those absentee voters will have put those ballots in the mail by Monday.  We’ll begin to see in the coming days.

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