by Jason Salas, KUAM NewsSunday, January 06, 2008 Subscribe to Jason's newsfeed
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In one of the most accelerated instances of a counting of election ballots in recent history, no doubt due in no small part to the fact that there were only two races and featured an abbreviated number of choices, the ballots were quickly tallied for the Decision 2008 special election. The ballots cast by Guamanians throughout Saturday took only a few hours, starting at around 10pm Saturday and finishing with 49 out of 54 precincts being counted slightly after 1 Sunday morning (about 4,000 votes were unaccounted for due to a "data oversight" issue noted by GEC board of directors chairman John Terlaje, preventing some information from being properly compiled and reported, which, officials Terlaje assured, should not affect the outcome). The Guam Election Commission called it a night/morning at that point.And throughout the night, both the senatorial and Prop 'A' races held court without deviation from their initial finishes. B.J. Cruz maintained a lead of better than 41% of the votes, besting Telo Taitague and fellow Democrat Tom Ada.And those citizens opposing Prop 'A' enjoyed a dominating performance throughout the night, jumping out to a huge lead that wasn't threatened at all. Those not wanting to endorse slot machine gaming at the Guam Greyhound Race Park in Tamuning teetered around a lead of two-thirds of the votes.View the latest election resultsView the UOG exit poll results