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Ohio. all eyes are on this ohio special election for house seat district 12. democrats were hoping tonight's election would be a precursor to a progressive wave in november. the race is too close to call. but we are getting breaking news. now you see there the spread is about 1700-plus votes. they say 100% of districts are in but they're telling us this additional information. 3,435 provisional ballots were cast. there were 5,048 outstanding absentee votes. none of those ballots can start to be counted until august 18th. now then we understand it has to go through every potential county. they'...

>>this is a fox news alert. we want to take you back to ohio. all eyes are on this ohio special election for house seat district 12. democrats were hoping tonight's election would be a precursor to a progressive wave in november. the race is too close to call. but we are getting breaking news. now you see there the spread is about 1700-plus votes. they say 100% of districts are in but they're telling us this additional information. 3,435 provisional ballots were cast. there were 5,048 outstanding absentee votes. none of those ballots can start to be counted until august 18th. now then we under...

Analysis and discussion of the day's top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O'Donnell.

We expect those also break democratic enough to erase a 1754 lead? no, but could it be enough to cut into that 754 enough that balderson's advantage which is 0.9 right now over o'connor if that ends up at 0.5 or less, state law says guess what, we got to have a a recount here. you could potentially, i wouldn't say it's the likeliest scenario but you could see that happening. there are also 5048 what they are calling uncounted absentee ballots, that were mailed out to voters in some cases weeks ago and they haven't been mailed back. a lot of them probably aren't going to be mailed back. some of...

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