Last Tuesday’s Alabama Republican primary for governor is not resolved yet, with the race going to a runoff on July 13 — and it’s not even settled yet who will be in the runoff, either.
The first-place finisher was Bradley Byrne, the former chancellor of the state’s two-year college system, with 28% of the vote. But it is not yet totally clear who came in second — state Rep. Robert Bentley leads businessman Tim James by just 208 votes, with each at about 25% of the vote.
Bentley’s campaign has already claimed victory of sorts, with a press release boasting that he made the runoff. But James is not giving up. Earlier today, James publicly asked voters who had to cast provisional ballots to make sure their vote would be counted, by taking a driver’s license or other identification to their county elections office by the deadline at 5 p.m. CT tomorrow. “There are an estimated 1,000 ballots that have yet to be counted,” James said. “This race is still not settled.”
