Election officials are hand counting the votes in the race between Dianne Wilkerson and Sonia Chang-Diaz. With Wlikerson's bare 141 vote victory, a recount could easily change the results, especially with stickers, write-ins and scuttlebutt about missing precincts.

It's unfortunate that my colleague John Kelleher played the Ralph Nader role in this election, taking 393 votes, well more than the margin between the front-runners.

In any case, we'll know more about the recount later today.

UPDATE: It looks like Curley's sprit lives on. Wilkerson wins by a whopping 700 ballots.