3 votes separate 3rd, 4th places in Champaign school board race

CHAMPAIGN – Stig Lanesskog won't just be thinking about Champaign school district issues in the next few days. He'll also be educating himself on how absentee and provisional ballots are counted.

Lanesskog won a seat on the Champaign school board by just three votes over the fourth-place candidate, Lynn Stuckey. But because the county clerk's office had 15 provisional ballots to consider and late-arriving absentee ballots to count, the final canvass of votes won't happen for another two weeks.

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