Last night, the Fairfax absentee ballot results were announced. Herring (the Democrat) picked up 1130 votes (there were just over 3,000 ballots, but he only got 68.8%, somewhat less than expected). That put Obenshain's (the Tea-hadist) lead at 130.
This morning, Arlington reported its provisional ballots, H-59, O-21. That drops Obenshain's lead to 82. Provisionals have now been counted in all of the top ten Obenshain counties, but not in Fairfax, Alexandria, Richmond and Norfolk. It is probable that Herring will take the lead when these come in, perhaps this afternoon.
The SBE website is very slow to update these. The best source for breaking news is Dave Wasserman, Cook Political Report (who broke the news about the Fairfax absentees a few days ago), at http://www.twitter.com/...
1:03 PM PT: As of 4:01 PM, the current tally (including 82 provisional ballots from Alexandria just announced) is
Obenshain 1,103,395
Herring 1,103,362
And Fairfax, with about 400 provisionals (and at least 2/3 should go to Herring) isn't in yet. Even if they aren't all counted, Herring should take the lead. They will announce the results Tuesday, in order to let voters come in to make sure their ballot is counted.
2:23 PM PT: Richmond just came in. Now
Obenshain 1,103,399
Herring 1,103,377
There are 494 provisionals in Fairfax. I think everything else is counted. UPDATE--error in Alexandria numbers. Remove 5 votes from Obenshain - it is now a 17 vote lead