Nearly 10,000 votes added to Christian County’s certified vote total, impacting sports gambling vote

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Missouri’s Amendment 2 sports gambling vote just got more interesting.

The Christian County clerk added an additional 9,800 votes to the county’s certified total submitted to the Missouri Secretary of State’s office. Clerk Paula Brumfield says those were absentee, mail-in, and provisional ballots.

In the late hours of election night, the clerk postponed the count of those ballots until Wednesday morning. According to the clerk, her team did not count them on election day because the machines would have erased all of the ballot data if they had been shut down. Brumfield said the decision was made with the agreement of the Republican and Democratic party representatives in the office.

Brumfield understands people’s feelings about the decision but says they didn’t have enough machines to complete the count that night. She also understands that the new vote count may impact a sports gambling recount.

“The certified votes from Christian County brought the narrow margin of the unofficial results on Amendment 2 (sports betting) to around 400.  As of 9:15 a.m., the updated difference was 747 votes.”

That number could change throughout the day as counties finish the certification process.

The Christian County Clerk says that no local races in Christian County results were flipped or overturned because of the new total.

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