Next Special Election PA-18 March 13th (dollars, leader, news, votes)

[MAGAalot]

They just announced that Washington's 1195 absentee ballots will be announced in several hours.

[RMESMH]

Washington County official back on CNN (audio)...

They are changing the procedure to speed it up....

He says results will now be 'several hours' from now.

[emm74]

Not that anyone can say for sure, but it certainly seems like it will be going into a recount with Lamb holding a very small lead going into that. And bottom line, this is still a 20 point swing away from GOP 2016 numbers

http://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/973760066674360322

[RMESMH]

I wonder if we will hear from any Westmoreland County officials re speeding up the count of the 1808 absentee ballots in that county?

[kimchee]

Several hours to count 1195 ballots? Geesh, I understand they have to do both electronic and hand counting but that's ridiculous! Why they wait so long to count these ballots is beyond me....

[MAGAalot]

Westmoreland will announce absentee ballots results in about 30 minutes.

[James Bond 007]

Lamb = 111,875 + (3206 * 0.4) = 113,157
Saccone = 111,028 + (3206 * 0.6) = 112,952

So a 60-40 split in favor of Saccone won't do it, at least just looking at the absentees.

[James Bond 007]

Lamb = 111,875 + (3206 * 0.3) = 112,837
Saccone = 111,028 + (3206 * 0.7) = 113,272

And a 30-70 split in favor of Saccone would do it. So I guess it's less than the 74% I said above.

[RosieSD]

Originally Posted by emm74

Not that anyone can say for sure, but it certainly seems like it will be going into a recount with Lamb holding a very small lead going into that. And bottom line, this is still a 20 point swing away from GOP 2016 numbers

And again, with a race this tight, Saccone spent $10.9 million, Lamb $4.7 million. Whose votes cost less?

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by magaalot

Westmoreland will announce absentee ballots results in about 30 minutes.