solarbird | The "no" campaign hangs in there

From No on 8:

Nov 05, 2008
Statement by No on Prop 8 Campaign on Election Status

Roughly 400,000 votes separate yes from no on Prop 8 – out of 10 million votes tallied.

Based on turnout estimates reported yesterday, we expect that there are more than 3 million and possibly as many as 4 million absentee and provisional ballots yet to be counted.

Given that fundamental rights are at stake, we must wait to hear from the Secretary of State tomorrow how many votes are yet to be counted as well as where they are from.

It is clearly a very close election and we monitored the results all evening and this morning.

As of this point, the election is too close to call.

Because Prop 8 involves the sensitive matter of individual rights, we believe it is important to wait until we receive further information about the outcome.

Geoff Kors
Executive Committee
NO on Prop 8

Kate Kendell
Executive Committee
NO on Prop 8

I can't find anyone else who thinks these absentees will turn it around, but the No campaign is refusing to concede defeat so far, and hopefully that's more than wishful thinking; it would seem to require that absentee voters be disproportionally white and Bay-area urban. But I have no actual data on that at all.