Update: The suspense (if there ever really was any) is over.  On February 21, Secretary Husted broke the tie by siding with the Republicans to allow the appeal of Judge Dlott’s decision to count addtional provisional ballots in the Hamilton County Juvenile Court election.

Read what the Secretary had to say here.  The appeal was filed immediately, on February 22.

Here are the letters that the Republican and Democratic members of the Hamilton County Board of Elections sent to Secretary Husted, with their respective positions on whether to appeal Judge Dlott’s most recent decision to count additional provisional ballots in the Hamilton County Juvenile Court race.

http://www.legallyspeakingohio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/February-13_2012_TieVote.pdf

 http://www.legallyspeakingohio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1258_001.pdf