Durham's Board of Elections has finished approving the processed provisional ballots from last week's Democratic primary, and it's official: Brenda Howerton has managed to maintain her lead over Fred Foster Jr. to claim the fifth and final seat for the next four years on the Board of County Commissioners.
Howerton held a roughly 800 vote lead at the end of the night last Tuesday, but as the official results show, the Frank Hyman-helmed campaign ended up just 554 votes ahead of Durham's NAACP chief. Foster picked up 731 votes in the provisional round -- almost identical to the 730 Joe Bowser picked up in the accepted provisionals -- and well ahead of Howerton's 477 gain.
Barack Obama picked up 88% of the provisional votes cast in the Democratic presidential race, for whatever that's worth -- with almost 97% of provisional ballots marking some preference for a presidential candidate across party lines.
You can read more over at the Herald-Sun, where Matthew E. "Lil' Gronberg" Milliken filed a report on the subject Wed. morning. Of interest: the run-off to which Leigh Bordley is entitled in her school board race against DCABP-backed Jonathan Alston will cost $110,000, a chunk of change not too dissimilar from the $175,000 tab for the May 6 primary.
Which is not a complaint -- democracy's a great bargain, really -- but more a realization of just how much it costs to staff 'em, mark 'em, and count 'em right, something Durham does quite well.
Speaking of which, Alston picked up 755 votes from provisionals, to 277 for Bordley and 507 for Nancy Cox. Tracy Cline, meanwhile, added 704 votes to her total.
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