Every Vote Counts

Yesterday The Conservative Treehouse reported that Trump-backed Ohio republican candidate Troy Balderson was declared the official winner today in Ohio’s 12th Congressional district.

After the absentee and provisional ballots were counted, Balderson received 104,328 votes, or 50.12 percent, and O’Connor had 102,648 votes, or 49.32 percent, according to Franklin County.

The article reports:

According to the Associated Press, after final absentee and provisional ballots were counted, Balderson defeated O’Connor by 1,680 votes. […] The result fell 520 votes outside the window to trigger an automatic recount.

Every vote counts.

When you look at their campaign web pages, there are some clear differences. Danny O’Connor opposed what he called the ‘purging’ of Ohio voting rolls. Most of us would refer to that as removing dead people and people who have moved from the voting rolls. Troy Balderson said that he would work to support the Trump agenda. Obviously the race was very close, but this was not part of the blue wave the Democrats keep promising.