Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy is still in campaign mode. Now, it's a campaign to count all the votes in her race against incumbent Deborah Pryce:
Just days after the balloting that left her 3,600 votes away from a seat in Congress, Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy has reactivated her campaign to sniff out a few thousand voters who could hold the key to the election.That's what we've come to in America -- and Ohio. Don't forget, Ken Blackwell is still the Secretary of State in Ohio. Candidates now have to run campaigns after election day to make sure that all the votes are counted.
Kilroy’s campaign called about 70,000 voters last weekend and aired television and radio ads asking people who cast provisional ballots to contact the campaign and county boards of elections to make sure their votes in the 15 th Congressional District are counted.
Kilroy came up 3,536 votes short of toppling Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce of Upper Arlington, but she did not concede the election last week. Kilroy and her supporters think she could win after provisional and absentee votes are counted next week.
In Kilroy's race, this is a very smart strategy. She can still pull this out. She has to be aggressive:
Slightly more than 10,000 people in the 15 th Congressional District cast provisional ballots, which are required when voters cannot produce identification establishing their residency.So, if the votes get counted, Mary Jo Kilroy will be the next member of Congress from Ohio's 15th CD. The GOP wants to disenfranchise voters. It's the only way they can win some of these races.
Kilroy’s campaign thinks that it will capture the majority of those votes because transient voters tend to favor Democrats — hence the fresh blast of campaign ads nearly a week after the election.
"We’re making sure as many voters as possible who voted provisionally have their ballots counted," Kilroy spokeswoman Amanda Wurst said. "We believe the vast majority of those are voters who supported Mary Jo Kilroy."
