NATIONALLY HONORED – Sitka High School science teacher Stacy Golden, right, listens as Janet Clarke, Sitka Sound Science Center education director, talks about Golden’s work with students and others on a project to re-articulate a humpback whale skeleton, during a school assembly honoring Golden. A line of students and colleagues took turns sharing anecdotes, giving her flowers and congratulating Golden for recently receiving the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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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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