The preliminary count of yesterday's vote in Louisiana's 4th district resulted in Republican John Fleming receiving 356 more votes than Democrat Paul Carmouche but to his credit Carmouche won't concede.

"For me to concede at this point would be foolish. We've spent a lot of money, a lot of effort, a lot of time in this race, and there are provisional ballots that we don't believe have been counted yet because they don't usually count those (immediately after a race). Democrats usually win those by large margins so the fat lady hasn't sung yet in this thing," he said.

Jacques Berry, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's Office, said the complete but unofficial returns do not include provisional ballots - paper ballots filled out by people who arrived at their precincts, intending to vote, but whose names did not appear on the official registry. Those votes and absentee paper ballots would be included on Tuesday, when all vote totals are added together again and certified.

In addition, Carmouche said he expects to request a recount once all ballots have been counted.

Louisiana law has no provision for an automatic recount, Berry said, though a losing candidate can request one. [...]

...after all 640 precincts were counted, Carmouche said he planned to ask for a recount of the ballots.

You didn't want this to be over yet anyway, did you?