Sorting Out the Table Games Election

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As the unofficial totals from the Kanawha County Clerk show, voters in precincts in and around Tri-State Greyhound & Gaming Center provided the largest margin of votes Saturday against allowing table games there.

This magisterial district saw the highest turnout as well. But those voters also accounted for more than one-fourth of the ballots that helped table games provisionally prevail with a wafer-thin 33-vote margin.

Here's a rundown of the county clerk's roster of polling places:

District 1: Belle, Campbells Creek, Chelyan, Marmet, Montgomery, Pratt, Rand and other eastern communities as well as the eastern edge of Charleston.

District 2: Large sections of Charleston and parts of South Charleston, St. Albans and Dunbar.

District 3: St. Albans, Cross Lanes and Nitro.

District 4: Charleston's West Side as well as Elkview, Quick and Clendenin.

The county commission will begin assessing the nearly 500 challenged ballots on Friday, leaving the final tally as yet too close to call.

Besides The Associated Press, those with coverage include The Charleston Gazette, MetroNews, Public Broadcasting, WSAZ-TV and WOWK-TV.

AP also plans for follow-up coverage later today.