As I mentioned earlier, Tony Allen could potentially petition the courts to order a visual recount of the election results for supervisor in Lancaster Township. Allen, a Republican, appears to have lost by only 11 votes or less than half a percentage point to Ben Bamford, a Democrat. I say “appears to” because there are outstanding provisional, absentee and military ballots to be counted. And we won’t know how those votes will alter the race until next week, at the earliest, when county elections officials do their official count in the township.

Allen seemed pretty sure tonight, though, that he would take it as far as he could to make sure all the votes were counted properly. “It’s so close that I can’t let it go,” he said. “I’ll do whatever’s necessary to be done. We’re counting until we win, and we’re counting on winning.” Obviously, next week’s official canvassing could give Bamford a wider margin of victory, in which case Allen and the Lancaster Township GOP would need to do some serious talking about a challenge. “The whole thing, it’s costly,” he acknowledged. “But if it comes out that I have two or three votes less, then I think it would be prudent to proceed.”

Stay tuned.