Just a follow up, Sullivan won by about 8800 votes. Final is 119,000 vs 111,000, suggesting that the absentee votes fell almost exactly in the same proportion as the regular votes. Which is what “should have” happened statistically speaking. It was 110,000 to 102,000 at the time of this article, so the remaining votes split almost exactly 50-50 (9000 each). Its just incredibly unlikely that the absentee vote would break hard (70%) one way or the other unless it was from a very focused locale.
Thanks. I had thought most of the remaining votes were from remote Eskimo and Indian majority locales.