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11-04-08 Release: Scottsdale races tight as votes continue to be counted

  Nov. 18, 2008


  Contact: Mike Phillips, media relations manager, (480) 312-7825

 

  Votes continue to be counted in tight Scottsdale races



The Maricopa County Elections Office continues to process thousands of ballots from last Tuesday’s election. The large volume of uncounted ballots means Scottsdale’s mayoral and City Council races remain tight and subject to potential change.


In the latest results released Monday, Nov. 17, mayoral challenger Jim Lane, a Scottsdale Council member has 49,891 votes and incumbent Mayor Mary Manross has 49,340 votes.


In the race for three open City Council seats, incumbent Ron McCullagh and challengers Lisa Borowsky and Suzanne Klapp hold leads.


Countywide, roughly 55,000 “late early” and provisional ballots remain to be processed and counted, according to the Elections Office. It is not known how many of those ballots were cast as part of the Scottsdale election.


“Late early” ballots are those mailed to voters but not dropped off at the polls until Election Day. Provisional ballots are those that still must be verified.


The latest Scottsdale election results are available at the Maricopa County Elections Office Web site: http://recorder.maricopa.gov/electionresults/. To access the Scottsdale election results, click on the “State Propositions/Special District” link and scroll to the Scottsdale Mayor and City Council sections.


Here are voting results for Scottsdale, according to the Maricopa County Elections Office. This total includes early voting and 86 of 86 precincts reporting. It does not include the “late early” and provisional ballots that still need to be counted:

 

Mayor

W.J. "Jim" Lane

49,891

Mary Manross

49,340

Council

Lisa Borowsky

37,814

Betty Drake

34,836

Tom Giller

27,721

Suzanne Klapp

35,954

Ron McCullagh

39,364

Nan Nesvig

24,254

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