Lisa Brown takes lead in late vote counts here

Spokane Democrat Lisa Brown, who gained ground on Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers in successive Whitman County ballot counts, broke out into a lead Tuesday night with the ballot count now at 16,079.

Brown, who has already conceded the win to McMorris Rodgers after a defeat overall in the Fifth Congressional District, now has a 320-vote lead over the incumbent in Whitman County for a total of just more than 51 percent.

The count Tuesday now has Brown with 8,077 votes in the county, and McMorris Rodgers has 7,757.

Brown trailed by 148 votes after a count of 3,222 more ballots Friday.

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