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Latest Ballot Count Gives JKT 28-Vote Lead
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins smiles as he stands next to white board showing him in the lead.
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins took a 28-vote lead over Bill Thomas today with the count of 86 absentee ballots cast for state representative in House District 34.
Alaska Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai said another 26 special absentee ballots will be counted on Wednesday, along with any overseas ballots that arrive between now and then.
On Friday Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democrat from Sitka, was in a tie with Thomas, a Republican from Haines, after two questioned ballots from Port Alexander were counted.
Fenumiai said today’s count of the 86 absentee ballots gave Kreiss-Tomkins 56 votes to 28 for Thomas. The latest count was 4,110 (50.08 percent) for Kreiss-Tomkins and 4,082 (49.74 percent) for Thomas.
Kreiss-Tomkins said today that he believes the Wednesday count will not change the outcome.
“We feel very good about the margin and optimistic that the votes on Wednesday, which include both of my parents’ votes, will break similarly as the votes did today,” he said.
Kreiss-Tomkins held a 43-vote lead over Thomas in the count of ballots after the polls closed on Nov. 6. After the first count of absentee ballots on Nov. 13 Thomas led by two votes, and the race pulled dead even on Friday.
Under state law, a candidate gets a free recount if the margin is within 20 votes, or one half of a percent of the votes cast.
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March 2005
Jonathan Krebs, Sitka Economic Development Association director, said today he’s resigning to take a job in Ottumwa, Iowa. Krebs, who also is manager of the Sawmill Cove Industrial Park, has held the SEDA post for five years.
50 YEARS AGO
March 1975
Gerry Helland of Sitka has been selected by the coaches to referee at the Alaska State High School Basketball Championships in Anchorage this weekend. Sitka and Wrangell are representing Southeast at the tourney.
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