(The Center Square) – Almost one month after Election Day, one key Congressional race in California remains uncalled as the same pair of opponents race to a neck-and-neck finish.
Democrat Adam Gray is now up nearly 200 votes against Republican Congressman John Duarte in the Central Valley District that voted in favor of recalling California Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2022.
If Republicans lose the seat, they’ll have only a five-seat majority in the House of Representatives, and Democrats will have flipped two Congressional races in an election in which Vice President Kamala Harris failed to flip a single county – a first for a presidential candidate since 1932.
With 1,576 unprocessed ballots and 10,120 ballots to be “cured” — ballots to be corrected by voters for a variety of reasons, but typically having to do with signature verification or improperly filled out ballots — the race is likely to be determined by the curing process.
While elections officials formally carry out the curing, political parties, nonprofits, and political action committees often conduct labor-intensive, and sometimes costly, direct outreach to voters whose ballots are in need of curing.
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