{"id":13122,"date":"2014-11-25T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=13122"},"modified":"2014-11-25T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:04:44","slug":"st-croix-board-of-elections-to-start-counting-run-off-election-mail-in-absentee-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=13122","title":{"rendered":"St. Croix Board of Elections To Start Counting Run-Off Election Mail-In Absentee Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Croix Board of Elections has announced it will start counting the mail-in absentee ballots from the run-off election on Wednesday, Nov. 26 at the Elections System office on St. Croix beginning at 12 p.m.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mail-in absentee ballots are expected to have\u00a0no effect on the results of the November 18 run-off elections, as Kenneth Mapp, now Governor-elect, secured a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/politics\/kenneth-mapp-8th-elected-governor-united-states-virgin-islands\/\" target=\"_blank\">landslide victory<\/a><\/span> over Congresswoman Donna M. Christesen, winning by over 6,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Christensen, <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/politics\/christensen-admits-disappointment-encourages-team-to-hold-your-heads-high\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the night she was defeated<\/a><\/span>, told her supporters that they should &#8220;hold their heads high,&#8221; and encouraged the entire territory to come together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a time for healing for the territory and all of you have offered yourself to be apart of a team that was all about unity, so we don\u2019t want you to give up on that mission,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, when we walk out tomorrow and the next day with our heads held high, we\u2019re all going to need to be reaching out and embracing our opponents and the rest of the community because they\u2019re going to need us. They\u2019re going to need your good spirit, they\u2019re going to need the hearts that are in each and everyone of you because there is a lot of work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, in a moment of transparency, Christensen admitted her disappointment at the loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m not disappointed,\u201d she said, garnering cheers and expressions of encouragement from the crowd. One supporter loudly chimed in, \u201cI\u2019m not disappointed; I\u2019m heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mapp, also speaking on the night he won the run-off election, said there would be &#8220;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/politics\/mapp-there-will-be-no-scores-to-settle\/\" target=\"_blank\">no scores to settle<\/a><\/span>,&#8221; and encouraged the people of the Virgin Islands to come together and work for a better union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Osbert and I] will start as the example setters,\u201d Mapp vowed. \u201cWe said very early on that when this campaign is over, we\u2019re not going hunting. We\u2019re not hunters \u2014 farmers yes, hunters, no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo,\u201d he continued, \u201cwe\u2019re going to reach across the aisle and make sure that those that were in other camps recognize that we respect their rights to choose and support whoever they wanted to support, and to do it without consequence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Croix Board of Elections has announced it will start counting the mail-in absentee ballots from the run-off election on Wednesday, Nov. 26 at the Elections System office on St. Croix beginning at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[628,191,8,147],"tags":[798],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>St. Croix Board of Elections To Start Counting Run-Off Election Mail-In Absentee Ballots - V.I. 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