Ben McAdams widens his lead over Mia Love slightly
The first day of counting late-arriving ballots — a process that may last up to two weeks — helped Democratic Mayor Ben McAdams slightly build his lead over GOP Rep. Mia Love on Wednesday.
Also, the anti-gerrymandering Proposition 4 inched up its precariously thin lead.
McAdams now is ahead by 51.45 percent to 48.55 percent, a lead of 2.9 points and 5,414 votes.
That is a slight improvement from the 2.78 percent point lead that he had at the end of election night counting.
The trouble in the 4th Congressional District race is that no updates have come from Love’s stronghold in heavily Republican Utah County. So the strength of McAdams’ lead remains unclear, still making the race likely too close to call.
Scott Hogensen, Utah County chief deputy clerk-auditor, said Wednesday that his county does not plan to post any vote updates until Friday — which may not allow declaring a winner in the race for at least that long. His office reported that 88,910 ballots have yet to be counted there, but is unsure how many are in the 4th District.
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