On November 24, the Virginia State Board of Elections certified its election results. They show that Democrat Tom Perriello defeated incumbent Republican Virgil Goode by 745 votes, in the U.S. House race in the 5th district. However, there are some rejected overseas military ballots that weren’t counted because they arrived too late. A lawsuit is pending over those ballots.

The Ohio U.S. House race in the 15th district is still not decided. Republican Steve Stivers leads Mary Jo Kilroy by 149 votes, but there are approximately 1,000 uncounted provisionals. The 6th circuit will decide soon whether they are valid; they are all cases in which the voter didn’t fill out all the information on the outer envelope. Briefs should all be filed by the end of November 25. The lawsuit is State ex rel Ska v Brunner, 08-4585. UPDATE: on November 25 the 6th circuit ruled that the lawsuit belongs in state court. Also, the original post should have mentioned that the Ohio 19th U.S. House race is still undecided; Democrat Marlan Harris leads Republican Brad Lewis by 40 votes.

In the California 4th district, Republican Tom McClintock leads by 645 votes over Democrat Charlie Brown. However, all the votes aren’t counted yet. UPDATE: McClintock is leading by 1,566 votes, so this race is probably settled in his favor. Thanks to the commenter for this news.