Winter Springs Mayor Kevin McCann's lead over challenger Jesse Phillips slipped to 106 votes Wednesday morning after Seminole County counted more mail ballots, and the race remained too close to settle.
At its 9:22 a.m. update, the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections' results site showed McCann with 8,285 votes (50.32%) and Phillips with 8,179 (49.68%). Late Tuesday, McCann had led by 112. The newest mail ballots split 18 for McCann and 24 for Phillips.
All 10 city precincts have reported, and Election Day and early votes are fully counted. Mail ballots are still listed as partly reported. The county now lists 192 vote-by-mail ballots in the cure process, which lets a voter fix a missing signature or one that does not match, along with 102 provisional ballots. Those are countywide figures, and the county does not say how many come from Winter Springs. Under state law, voters have until 5 p.m. Thursday, the second day after the election, to cure a mail ballot. All results are unofficial until they are certified.
City commission
The other two city races moved only slightly, and both incumbents kept leads larger than the countywide number of ballots still pending:
- District 2: Victoria Bruce 9,392 (58.08%); Ken Spalthoff 6,779 (41.92%)
- District 4: Cade Resnick 8,380 (52.97%); Kyle Stewart 7,441 (47.03%)
County Commission, District 4
Democrat Charline Lorraine Santos defeated Republican Commissioner Amy Lockhart for the countywide District 4 seat, 98,858 votes (51.42%) to 93,398 (48.58%). Her 5,460-vote margin is far larger than the ballots left to count. Lockhart was the incumbent, according to ClickOrlando's results listing.
