Gill victory margin rises on absentee and other late vote counts

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Submitted by Illinoisnoki1 on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 13:54

All absentee, military, overseas and provisional votes have now been counted across the 13th Congressional District where PDA progressive, Dr. David Gill won a narrow victory over corporate Democrat Matt Goetten in the March 20 Democratic primary.

The Gill campaign reports David Gill is the Democratic nominee by a 162 vote margin. "We gained 19 votes over our election night margin as eligible absentee, military, overseas and provisional ballots were added to the tally.

The re-tabulations required as crosschecks by state law have occurred to verify the vote in 5% of precincts as randomly selected by State Board of Elections.

Official canvasses of the vote have been completed in the City of Bloomington and by all 14 county clerks.

The Primary election results are now final and will be sent to the State Board of Elections to be certified on April 20.

FINAL PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 13 OFFICIAL CANVASS COMPLETE APRIL 10, 2012

FINAL CANVASS	APRIL 10th, 2012
Election Authority	Final Gill	Final Goetten	Final margin	Difference	Post-Election Vote Breakdown
Bloomington	500	180	320	0
Bond	64	72	-8	0
Calhoun	157	1047	-890	0
Champaign	5137	1640	3497	+16 Gill	21-5 Gill
Christian	863	996	-133	0
DeWitt	387	188	199	0
Greene	170	1028	-858	0
Jersey	148	724	-576	0
Macon	2634	2678	-44	+2 Gill	2-0 Gill
Macoupin	1262	2144	-882	0
Madison	1583	1848	-265	0	2 Gill, 2 Goetten
McLean	301	85	216	0
Montgomery	426	645	-219	+1 Gill	1-0 Gill
Piatt	319	193	126	0
Sangamon	1584	1905	-321	0	2 Gill, 2 Goetten