It may be days before veteran Arapahoe County Coroner Michael Dobersen finds out if he's held onto his job, since he and challenger Jay Ledbetter are separated by less than half a percentage point in one of the most sharply contested coroner races in memory. According to the latest figures, Dobersen leads Ledbetter by a mere 447 votes -- 74,098 to 73,651 -- with several thousand late-straggler ballots left to count.
Dobersen, a nationally known forensic pathologist, has been the county's coroner for seventeen years. But he recently changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, prompting the GOP to field its own candidate in Ledbetter, an attorney.
Just how much voters paid attention to these issues -- or simply went for the "D" or "R" designation isn't clear.
And the outcome isn't, either. – More –
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