Talent beats McCaskill by a hair in St. Charles precinct

[bcool]

I just finished working as an election judge in a heavily Republican district in St. Charles County Missouri.

Since we have all-electronic voting machines (optical scan & touch screen), we are privy to the vote counts.

The bad news is Talent beat McCaskill...

...the good news is that Talent beat McCaskill by only 4 votes out of 550+.

This bodes well for the rest of the state, I think.

Also on our ballot was the so-called Stem Cell Initiative, which permits the same level of research on stem cells as at the Federal level. It passed in our precinct, by a decent margin.

Another item of interest was raising the minimum wage, which also passed.

[dchill]

1. That is actually good news.

Thanks.

[IndyOp]

2. Welcome to DU, Bcool !

Thanks for working the polls in MO...

I grew up in St. Louis County, visited St. Charles only a few times - but liked it quite a lot.

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[sendero]

3. I'm especially..

... rooting for McCaskill. She's great, and Talent is a douche bag with a capital D. :)

[deadparrot]

4. As a Missourian, I'm glad to hear it.

Hopefully St. Louis and KC turns out for McCaskill.

[goforit]

5. Isn't this the Boeing /Christian Zaneyville? Hows she doing in Springfield?

[pstokely]

14. It's where the pic of the Moran was taken I think

[Radio_Lady]

6. Thanks for posting, Bcool. Glad to have you here!

[Pugee]

7. This updates automatically.

http://election.cbsnews.com/campaign2006/state.shtml?state=MO

Click on county results to see individual county votes for McCaskill/NoTalent

[LeighAnn]

8. Here's the state's results page

http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb

Kansas City, Jackson County, St. Louis City and St. Louis County not yet reporting *whew* Those numbers should turn the current numbers on their heads :P

[deadparrot]

10. Yup. The cities are key.

Go Claire. *fingers crossed*

[sandnsea]

11. jynx! n/t

[bling bling]

13. Thank you for that!

I was hoping St. Louis and Kansas City had not reported yet. I have hope again.

[sandnsea]

9. State link

St Louis & KC not reporting at all yet. Although sometimes the news gets results first.

http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/raceresults.asp?eid=189&oid=43310&arc=

[chat_noir]

12. District 5 - is most of the Kansas City area, so watch it

Precincts Reporting 1 of 428 at this time.

http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/allresults.asp?eid=189

[ComerPerro]

15. i dunno, Talent has been telling a lot of outrageous lies, and they worked