Gainesville, Florida elects first out gay mayor

Election officials eventually gave Lowe 7 additional votes

Poll workers at the Supervisor of Elections training facility in Gainesville, Florida spent most of Friday afternoon doing a recount after Mayoral candidate Craig Lowe's narrow 35-vote victory on Tuesday. Lowe ended up with a 7-vote bump, and was declared the official mayor-elect a little after 3:00 p.m. Anti-gay activists had distributed phoney campaign fliers and the "Dove World Outreach Center" briefly displayed a sign reading "No Homo Mayor", later shortened to "No Homo" after the ACLU and various media outlets brought up the slight matter of tax exemptions.