Absentee ballots are split down the middle, and it’s appearing increasingly likely that the spaceport tax is going to come down to provision ballots.
Of absentee ballots, 238 opposed the tax and 224 favored it.
The total count, with all but one precinct reporting, is 8,754 votes, or 50.8 percent, for the tax, and 8,494 votes, or 49.2 percent, opposed.
That’s a margin of 260 votes, or 1.6 percent. There are at least 349 provisional ballots.
The county can’t legally begin counting provisional ballots until Thursday morning.