Almost the same thing that happened two years ago happened when she won enough votes to get elected on election day, but lost when the absentee and early voting ballots were added in almost happened again yesterday.

Leading by 128 votes of those cast on election day, Moore’s victory margin dropped to 30 after the other votes were folded in.

The closeness of the vote allows incumbent John Rossi to request a discovery recount of ten percent of the precincts. With 31 precincts, that means he can have the ballots of three run through the vote counting machines again.

Such discovery recounts rarely change the result.

And, since McHenry County doesn’t use punch cards anymore, there won’t be any hanging chad problem.

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In the photo above you can see Linda Moore handing literature to Milford Brown, who is running for the Huntley Fire Protection District Board. Sitting behind the table is her daughter Abby Moore, a senior at Huntley High School planning to study pharmaceutical science. Her son Andrew, attending college in Florida, is one of the absentee ballots.