Oh's lead in City Council race down to 7 votes
David Oh's lead over incumbent Philadelphia City Councilman Jack Kelly fell to seven votes yesterday, after all machine votes were counted in the unofficial tally.
Oh, challenging Kelly for one of two at-large council seats reserved for the minority party, has 60,366 votes, to 60,359 for Kelly. He held a 24-vote lead Wednesday before the final 0.5 percent of divisions came in yesterday.
Bob Lee, city voter registration administrator, said it usually takes several days after the elections to gather all machine cartridges - at least two of them were found in a police cruiser, having fallen out of a plastic bag when the officer delivered them from their polling place. It's not the first time that has happened.
Official count of the machines, which includes rereading of digital cartridges, will be done today, but that won't produce a final result.
The race is expected to be decided in the next two weeks as more than 2,400 absentee, military and provisional ballots are counted, starting with absentee ballots today.
- Jeff Shields























