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Trudge toward Senate ballot counting begins
Don’t expect a result any time soon in the state Senate race that might decide what party controls the chamber.
On the first day of what stacks up to be a lengthy review of paper ballots, a Montgomery County judge merely set the preliminary schedule for Democrat and Republican lawyers to argue about what ballots should count.
There’s no time table yet for when any of the 870 disputed...