Hamilton County completes its vote count

Hamilton County completed its count of nearly 4,200 provisional ballots Monday night. While Victoria Wulsin had a net gain of 641 votes in her race against U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt -- she would have to pick up 78 percent of all uncounted ballots in Clermont County to trigger a recount.

Hamilton County Board of Elections Director John Williams reported that Wulsin picked up another 2,409 votes on Monday to Schmidt's 1,768 votes. That put Wulsin's lead at 50,210 to 44,447 in Hamilton County.

But Schmidt still leads in the 2nd Congressional District -- which includes all or parts of seven counties by 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent, or 119,201 votes to Wulsin's 116,735 votes, according to the latest returns. There are an estimated 2,300 provisional ballots to be counted Tuesday in Clermont County before election results can be certified.

Wulsin would need to win nearly 1,800 of the 2,300 uncounted votes to trigger an automatic recount -- which occurs when the winning margin is within 0.5 percent.