critical. huh, interesting. listen. i think i misspoke when i said that you were against you want the mask. you are against the governor banning the masks, so that s my bad. so, you you all want the school board to of trustees to go against your governor, require masks. so how do you see this playing out? yeah. thanks, don. thanks for having me, tonight. you know, i called into the school-board meeting, this morning, um, you know, thinking my audience was just whoever watches the school-board meeting in austin, texas. and and now, i m on your show. but i m not i m just one voice. but there are many of us in austin, in texas, asking schools to implement schoolwide, districtwide mask mandates to keep our children safe. and so, that s the community in austin is coming together to demand that the school district in austin defy governor abbott s mask ban on mask mandates and implement mask mandates to keep our kids safe. hmm. you know, you have battled cancer. you mentio
were worse. there were certainly some that were worse. i think balderson oh, wlaushs, let me just do the math right here. we just got a burst. we went from 66 to 82. about half the outstanding vote came in as i was talking. it took it to about 3,900 votes districtwide. countywide. and that does put balderson back in the league by .4 of a percentage point. that is a margin, 677 741. 741 votes is the margin right now. 741 votes is balderson s lead. 17% of the vote still to be counted in delaware county. and just making sure we didn t get any updates here. still a sliver here in franklin county. i m curious to see what they are. and then look. there s two things to keep in mind here. and i want to just get the countywide up here. number one, state law in ohio, if you are within .5 of a point
about 1,000 of them are provisional ballots. and we do expect on the whole districtwide those to break democratic. the other 2,730 are absentee. a very, very, very small portion of that we expect to be military ballots. those we assume would break republican. this is the question. those other absentee ballots, are they early votes, are they votes a huge church, of votes in this district were cast early and o connor won the early vote by a very large margin. folks who were watching earlier saw this as it played out. he won the early vote very big. 3,730 in the rural part of the district. when you add whatever we get out of franklin and delaware you can expect that number to more than double. you d be talking ballpark figure 8,000 total, 8,500, something like that. and again, at that current split that would be what, about 6,000 absentee slash military plus about 2,500 provisional. with the provisional expected to break democratic. and the question then that looms is if the bulk of tho
he s sitting at 54. 96% of the vote is in in delaware county. what that s done districtwide is it s put him up by 1,680 votes. the lead for o connor is 1,685. that is 0.8%. what is sorry, i just spilled some water. what is left here is a very tiny sliver of flaink, a scattering small scattering of precincts in delaware, but also this. i m not kiding when i say absentees and provisionals. we re tracking these. what we have right now that we know of, and we know of the counts for everything outside of the two major the two biggest counties here. delaware and franklin account for 60% of the population. we don t have any counts on what s still to be counted there in terms of absentee and provisional. outside of that, though, we are sitting at 3,730. this is in 40% of the district populationwise. 3,730. what are they?