According to election officials, over 700 paper ballots still need to be counted. While the law states that they may not be opened for one week, it is expected that there will be legal challenges to those ballots, thus postponing the final decision in the race for approximately two weeks.
Ironically, the official winner of the race will hold office only until the end of 2012, when the implementation of new political boundaries will cause the district to disappear entirely.