With the Republican’s Governor’s race hanging by a few hundred votes, and other races that are close, many people are asking about when to expect the final results in Champaign County and how they could change.

We will begin our final canvass process here at the Brookens Center on February 16, 2010 at 10:00 am.  It will begin by having judges validate absentee ballots and then feeding those ballots and the validated provisional ballots into tabulators.  After all the absentee ballots have been tabulated, we will add those results into the election day results and release them.

Currently in Champaign County there are 139 Republican absentee ballots and 337 Democratic ballots  that have been mailed but not returned.  There are 14 Republican provisional ballots and 9 Democratic provisional ballots.  How many of the provisional ballots will be counted is yet to be decided.  These numbers might be a little misleading because they include all automatically sent ballots to military and overseas voters, some of whom may have had no intention to vote.

The count of outstanding ballots that have been sent to voters who affirmatively requested a ballot for this election is 35 Democratic and 40 Republican.  I would estimate that the return rate on those ballots will be high.

We will be picking up ballots at the post office on Thursday of this week, Monday of next week, and Tuesday the day of the canvass.  I will release the count of ballots received by our office on the Thursday and Monday to give people an idea of how many of those ballots have been returned.

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