For two and a half quiet weeks, Kalshi's market on the 2026 Ohio governor race was the purest coin flip on the governor map: Democrat Amy Acton and Republican Vivek Ramaswamy pinned within a cent or two of 50 from the day we built this page. On August 24, the flip landed. Roughly a quarter-million contracts hit the Acton side of the board in a single day, about six times the previous 16 days of trading combined, and the price ran four cents, 52 to a 56-cent close. As of August 25, 2026, Acton trades at 56 to 57 cents and Ramaswamy at 44 to 45. What makes this page interesting rather than just updated: our seven-model panel scored this race price-blind on August 7 and blended Ramaswamy to about 58 percent, and that frozen read has not moved. The market now sits 14 points from the panel, up from eight at the build, with most of that widening arriving in that one day, in one direction, without a new topline poll in the record. What that tape shows, and what did and did not actually change underneath it, is the story of this refresh.
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The Quick Answer
Kalshi's market no longer prices the 2026 Ohio governor race as a toss-up: Amy Acton (D) trades at 56 to 57 cents and Vivek Ramaswamy (R) at 44 to 45 cents as of August 25, 2026, after a single trading day put roughly 252,000 of the board's 257,000 trailing-24-hour contracts on the Acton side. Our price-blind, seven-model panel scored the race on August 7 and blended Ramaswamy to about 58%; that read is frozen, and the market, after two weeks of one-cent drift and one four-cent day, now sits about 14 points to the Democratic side of it. The move came on one-directional order flow, not on a new topline poll: the newest public survey in the record remains a one-point Acton edge from mid-August, and the polling averages still call the race about even.
- Market Read (August 25): Acton ~56.5¢ mid, Ramaswamy ~44.5¢ mid
- Model Read (Frozen August 7): Ramaswamy ~58.1%, Acton ~41.9%
- The Gap: about 14 points on the Republican line, market versus model. It was eight at the build.
- The Tension In One Line: the crowd crossed to a Democrat-favored board on flow alone; the panel's structural case has not seen a new fact, and its own re-score triggers name exactly the polls that have not arrived yet.
The full one-way tape, the frozen board, and the honest read on what changed since August 7, and what did not, are below.
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The Market At A Glance
| Venue | Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated event-contract exchange with broad, state-specific availability under federal oversight (18+) |
| The Event | "Ohio Governor winner?" (Kalshi event GOVPARTYOH-26), one yes/no contract per party |
| The Contract | The Democratic market resolves YES if a representative of the Democratic party is inaugurated as governor of Ohio pursuant to the 2026 election; the Republican market mirrors it. It settles on the certified winner actually taking office, not a projection or an election-night call, and it pays on the winner's party, not the named candidate |
| Liquidity (As Of August 25, 2026) | About 1.32 million contracts traded across the two active markets per Kalshi's live volume data (roughly 670,200 on the Acton side, 649,400 on the Ramaswamy side, each $1 notional), with open interest near 517,000 contracts on the Acton leg and 498,000 on the Ramaswamy leg. Recent two-sided quotes are one cent wide on both — on the Acton leg, a 56-cent bid to buy against a 57-cent ask to sell — and the prices here come from that live two-sided quote data, not a lone last-trade print |
| Snapshot | Market data as of August 25, 2026; prices on this page refresh as the race moves toward November. Verdicts generated August 7, 2026, and frozen since |
These are model estimates, not predictions of fact and not financial advice; they are not voting advice either. This article analyzes a market; it does not advocate for or against any candidate or party, and nothing here is a recommendation to trade. Every number in this piece gets graded in public once the market settles, on the full graded Model Verdict scoreboard.
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What Changed: The August 24 Tape
From the August 7 build through August 23, this board barely breathed. Acton's contract closed between 49 and 52 cents every single day, daily volume on her leg ran between about 100 and 9,900 contracts, and the drift was slow enough that the climb from 50 to 52 took two full weeks. Then came August 24: 254,279 contracts traded on the Acton leg in one day, the price ran from 52 to a 56-cent close with a 57-cent high, and the board's cumulative volume jumped from roughly one million contracts to 1.32 million before the day was out.
| Date | Acton close (in cents) | Acton-leg volume that day |
|---|---|---|
| August 7 (The Build) | 50 | 144 contracts |
| August 13 | 50 | 9,923 contracts |
| August 22 | 52 | 487 contracts |
| August 24 | 56 close, 57 high | 254,279 contracts |
| August 25 (Live) | 56 bid, 57 ask | 252,048 contracts in the trailing 24 hours |
The row worth staring at is not the big one; it is the one that is missing. While 252,048 contracts hit the Acton side over the trailing 24 hours, the Ramaswamy leg traded 4,689, under two percent of the day's combined flow. That is not two crowds meeting at a new price. That is one crowd, buying one side of a 1.32-million-contract board, until the price gave way. In our walkthrough of how order flow becomes price on Kalshi's ladder, this is the cleanest live example the election boards have produced: a move made of size, not of back-and-forth.
And here is the honest part: nothing in the public record dated August 24 explains it. The newest topline poll remains Wedgewood's August 13 survey with Acton up one, 47 to 46, and the fullest public aggregate, Pollsmax's 17-poll average, still reads the race inside a single point, with Ramaswamy, not Acton, fractionally ahead at 46.7 to 46.0. Both stood exactly there before the move. What has accumulated since the August 7 build all leans the same direction, but it is days to weeks older than the tape:
- The Money Now Favors Acton. Campaign finance reports filed August 6 showed Acton raising $16.5 million in 2026 to Ramaswamy's $14.4 million, her third consecutive filing period out-raising him, with about 72 percent of her money coming from inside Ohio. The caveat cuts the other way: Ramaswamy has put roughly $25 million of his own money into the race, so fundraising measures enthusiasm here better than it measures firepower. Remember this item; the panel named fundraising as one of its own re-score triggers at the build, and this is the first installment of it.
- Ramaswamy's Rough July Is On The Record. On July 28 he was booed by young conservatives at the Young Americans for Liberty convention in Cincinnati, ending a 30-minute keynote slot after about 15 minutes as attendees jeered his 2024 comment that American culture "venerated mediocrity" in the H-1B debate, along with data-center and housing-cost grievances. That backlash landed a week after his suggestion that Ohio should shut down "subpar" universities drew its own statewide pushback. Both episodes add to the "likeability problem" Cook Political Report had already flagged when it moved the race to Toss-Up.
- The Debate Question Is Open. Ramaswamy says he is ready to debate and Acton should "show up"; Acton's campaign has declined to commit. Whoever wins that staring contest gets a talking point, and an eventual debate is exactly the kind of event this page re-scores on.
- Acton's Ledger Has Its Own Weight. Her statewide fame and her biggest vulnerability are the same chapter: she resigned as Ohio's health director in June 2020 amid protests at her home and Republican legislative pushback on her authority, after an Ohio judge ruled the state's gym-closure order unconstitutional and wrote that she had acted in an "impermissibly arbitrary, unreasonable, and oppressive manner." The Ohio Republican Party's standing attack on her candidacy is built on that resignation, and the market is pricing whether a COVID-era record that made her a Democratic icon reads the same way to a November electorate.
None of that is news to the panel; everything above except the tape itself was either in the August 7 record or is an extension of a pattern that was. Which is why the fourteen-point question is really a two-and-a-half-week question: is a one-way surge of size, arriving without a fresh poll, information the record has not caught up to yet, or momentum paying itself a premium? To weigh that, go back to what actually decides the race.
What Actually Decides This Race
Five fetched facts define the board, and they pull in opposite directions:
- The Polling Is Tied. The newest public poll in the record the panel scored, Impact Research (a Democratic-aligned firm) on July 24-28, 2026, had Ramaswamy 47, Acton 46, with 7 percent undecided. The New York Times/Siena had it 47-47 on June 28. Since the build, Wedgewood's August 13 survey put Acton up one, 47-46, while the Pollsmax 17-poll aggregate still sits fractionally Republican at 46.7-46.0. Across the full record the averages remain within a point of even, and all but two 2026 polls have landed inside three points; the exceptions point in opposite directions (a February EMC Research survey for the Ohio Environmental Council at Acton +10, the weakest-graded pollster in the fetched feed, and an April Echelon Insights poll at Ramaswamy +5).
- The Trajectory Belongs To Acton. Emerson College's own trend ran from Ramaswamy +10 in August 2025 (49-39) to Acton +1 that December (46-45) as her name recognition grew. Cook Political Report moved the race from Lean Republican to Toss-Up on July 16, 2026, citing what it called a "clear likeability problem" for Ramaswamy in its polling review. ABC News also rates it Toss-Up; Sabato's Crystal Ball still rates it Leans Republican.
- The Structure Belongs To Ramaswamy. Ohio has voted Republican by roughly 8-11 points in every presidential election since 2016, Republicans hold every statewide executive office, and the last Democrat to win an Ohio governor race was Ted Strickland in 2006. Mike DeWine, the term-limited incumbent, won his 2022 re-election by 25 points.
- It Is An Open Seat Between Two First-Time Candidates. Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur and 2024 presidential candidate, won the May 5 Republican primary with 82.5% and swept all 88 counties, with President Trump's endorsement in hand since the day he launched. Acton, the former Ohio Department of Health director who became a statewide figure during the 2020 COVID briefings, was the only Democrat on the ballot. Neither has held elected office.
- The National Wind Blows Against The President's Party. The generic congressional ballot ran roughly D+5 to D+6 in early August 2026 tracking averages, presidential approval sat near 20 points underwater, and the president's party has lost House seats in 18 of the last 20 midterms. An open seat with no incumbent to anchor it feels national conditions more, not less.
The market netted those five facts out to 50-50 on August 7. As of August 25, it nets them to a 56-cent Acton favorite. The models, working price-blind from the same fetched record, land on the other side of both prints. Here is the short version, then every seat's number.
The Board
| Nominee | Party | Market (Aug 25) | Model blend (frozen Aug 7) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Acton (Former State Health Director; Unopposed For The Nomination) | Democratic | ~56.5¢ | 41.9% |
| Vivek Ramaswamy (Won The May 5 Primary With 82.5%; Trump-Endorsed) | Republican | ~44.5¢ | 58.1% |
Every Seat's Number
Numbers below are each seat's probability that the Republican side wins, after the revision round (the Democratic side is the complement).
| Outcome | Market (Aug 25) | Fable | Opus | Sonnet | GPT | Gemini | Grok | Kimi | Blend | Gap (blend% − mkt¢) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican (Vivek Ramaswamy) | ~44.5¢ | 61.0 | 58.0 | 56.0 | 56.0 | 61.0 | 58.0 | 57.0 | 58.1% | +14 |
| Democratic (Amy Acton) | ~56.5¢ | 39.0 | 42.0 | 44.0 | 44.0 | 39.0 | 42.0 | 43.0 | 41.9% | -15 |
More live boards from the same panel: Ohio Senate: Brown vs. Husted (Sherrod Brown ~54¢ as of August 25) · Florida governor (Byron Donalds ~80¢) · California governor (Democratic side ~96¢)
These are model estimates, not predictions of fact and not financial or voting advice. The Blend column is the simple mean of the seven numbers in its row. The last column is a directional gap, the blend percentage minus the raw market price in cents. The two mid prices now sum to about 101 cents, so roughly a point of each line's gap is spread premium rather than disagreement; strip it and the panel still sits about 14 points to the Republican side of the market. At the August 7 build, the same calculation read eight. The market did not close the disagreement. It moved away from it.
Every seat on this panel is graded against real market settlements — records to date: Claude Fable 84% on 334 graded calls · Claude Opus 85% on 385 graded calls · Claude Sonnet 83% on 366 graded calls · GPT 83% on 2,013 graded calls · Gemini 85% on 2,062 graded calls · Grok 80% on 1,888 graded calls · Kimi 83% on 2,099 graded calls. Recomputed daily; the full scoreboard is public.
A note on the panel. Our standard Model Verdict lineup runs eight seats; one was unavailable on this run, so this board runs on seven models: Claude Fable, Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, GPT, Gemini, Grok, and Kimi. All seven scored the race on August 7, 2026, without seeing any prices, working from a fetched, dated summary of the nominees, the primary results, the race ratings, the complete public polling record, the structural voting history, and the national environment. All seven then read one another's anonymized reasoning and could revise. Those verdicts are frozen; market prices on this page refresh, model numbers do not, until a re-score trigger fires. Every number also lands in our back-tested Model Verdict ledger, where past price-blind calls are graded against settled results so the method is measured, not just asserted.
The one line that explains the whole board: the polls are tied, but tied Ohio polls have not meant tied Ohio results. The panel's disagreement with the market is almost entirely a bet on that one pattern repeating. — the panel consensus, August 7. The market has since picked the other side of the bet.
Where The Panel Changed Its Mind
The revision round is where this board got interesting. Round one produced a fifteen-point spread across the seats, from 53% to 68% on the Republican side. After each model read the others' anonymized reasoning, the range tightened from 15 points to five, with movement in both directions.
The biggest single move came from Fable, which had opened as the panel's strongest Ramaswamy number at 68% and walked it back to 61%: it held that "tied August polling minus Ohio's persistent 3-5 point pro-Democratic state-poll skew implies a small Ramaswamy edge," but marked down its own conviction because "Ramaswamy is a first-timer with a Cook-flagged likeability problem, unlike veteran DeWine in 2018," and because Acton's polling trajectory shows real crossover reach. — Claude Fable
Three seats moved the other way, for related but distinct reasons. Kimi trimmed Acton from 47% to 43% after, in its words, weighing "a persistent pattern of Ohio polls flattering Democrats (2018 Cordray lost by 3.7 in a D+8 wave despite near-tied polls; 2022 Vance won by 6 after 'toss-up' polls; Brown 2024)." — Kimi. Gemini cut Acton from 43% to 39%, matching Fable at the top of the Republican range, on late deciders reverting to "their deep-red state baseline by Election Day, as is typical in polarized environments." — Gemini. GPT trimmed 47% to 44%, still calling the race "a true toss-up snapshot, not a generic red-state long shot," but crediting "likely late partisan consolidation" rather than any Ohio-specific poll skew. — GPT
Grok took a single point off Acton in the same direction, while Sonnet nudged two points back toward her, to 44%. And one seat did not move at all: Opus held 42% on Acton through both rounds, resting on a composition argument the rest of the panel picked up: "much of the Acton-favorable data is D-sponsored or D-leaning-graded … the nonpartisan set (NYT/Siena tied, BGSU R+1, Emerson D+1) sits at or slightly right of the average, so the true line is likely a shade redder." — Claude Opus
The Republican Side: Why The Models Fade The Crowd
The panel's case rests mostly on the arithmetic under the polls rather than a read on either candidate's personal appeal. The panel's heaviest common weight was the 2018 comparison, the last open Ohio governor race. Grok put it flatly: "Open-seat 2018 (DeWine–Cordray R+3.7 in a D wave) is the best comp, though Ramaswamy is weaker than DeWine and Acton is rising." — Grok. In that race, near-tied late polls and a national Democratic wave still produced a 3.7-point Republican win. Several seats extended the pattern forward, citing 2022's Senate race breaking six points Republican after what they called toss-up polling, and the 2024 Senate race, the recent Democratic high-water mark statewide, still ending in a roughly 3.6-point loss while the state's presidential margin ran about 11.
Layered on that is the baseline itself. Sonnet's opening summary, before it trimmed two points off its own Republican number, put the structural case most directly: "Ohio hasn't elected a Dem governor since 2006, went R+8-11 in three straight presidentials, and DeWine won by 25 in 2022 — undecideds in red states often break toward the structural lean, not the poll average." — Claude Sonnet. Gemini, the panel's other 61, framed the whole race as "the collision between Ohio's strong R+8-11 structural baseline and a highly toxic national environment for the GOP," and resolved the collision on the structural side for one stated reason: "the 2018 open-seat race (where an unpopular GOP president still yielded an R+3.7 governor win) suggests Ohio's partisan gravity is difficult to overcome entirely." — Gemini
Notice what the blend is not. It is not 70%. Every seat priced a real race, and the reasons are on the Democratic side of the ledger below.
The Democratic Side: Amy Acton's Path
The panel priced Acton at about 42%, well below where her market now trades but nowhere near dismissed, and the models were specific about what her number is made of. First, the polling is actually tied, which at this distance from November is not nothing: GPT called the record "effectively tied ... a true toss-up snapshot," and no seat disputed the topline. Second, the trajectory is hers. Emerson's trend from Ramaswamy +10 in August 2025 to Acton +1 in December is the single best Democratic fact on the board, and Fable credited it directly in its revision as evidence of real crossover reach. Third, the environment is a classic out-party midterm setup: approval near 20 points underwater, a D+5-6 generic ballot, and an 18-of-20 base rate of the president's party losing ground, with no 1998- or 2002-style rally condition present to blunt it. It is the same national wind at the Democrat's back on our Michigan governor board, a race the market prices as anything but close; Ohio is where that wind meets a much redder baseline.
Kimi's summary of the Democratic case doubles as the reason her price sat at 49 on build day rather than 42: "Dead-heat polls collide with Ohio's red structural lean and history of polls overstating Democrats there; a strong midterm tailwind closes most but not all of that gap." — Kimi. If the tailwind closes all of it, the market is right and the panel is wrong. The August 24 buyers are betting, at size, that it closes all of it and then some. The models' whole disagreement with the crowd is that "most but not all."
The Traps: Reads That Look Like Signal But Are Not
Transparency matters more than a clean story, so here is where this board could mislead you:
- A Fourteen-Point Gap Is A Disagreement, Not A Confirmed Error. It was eight at the build; the market widened it by moving away. The crowd and the panel are still weighing the same public facts, the crowd now takes the Democratic trajectory at better than face value, and the models discount it against Ohio's recent polling history. One of those weightings is wrong, and the certified result in November is what will say which.
- One-Way Flow Is Not The Same Thing As New Information. More than 98 percent of the trailing day's volume hit the Acton leg, with no fresh topline poll behind it. Sometimes that is informed money arriving before the record catches up; sometimes it is momentum paying itself a premium. The tape cannot tell you which from the outside, and neither can we, which is exactly why the panel's number does not move on price action alone.
- The Tied Average Is Not A Neutral Average. Several seats flagged that the Acton-leaning results cluster among Democratic-aligned or Democratic-sponsored pollsters, while the nonpartisan set (NYT/Siena tied, BGSU/YouGov R+1, Emerson D+1) sits at or slightly right of even. That is a composition note, not an accusation; sponsored polls can be right.
- The Poll-Skew Case Is Ohio-Specific, And Not Every Seat Bought It. The fetched record shows national midterm polling in 2018 and 2022 was nearly unbiased, and several models said flatly that they applied no blanket correction. The seats that discounted the tied polls did it on Ohio's own recent races, not on a national rule, and that distinction is exactly where the panel's 58 could prove too high.
- The Trend And The Level Point Different Directions. Acton owns the trajectory; Ramaswamy owns the baseline. A trend that has already run for a year cannot simply be extrapolated to November, and a baseline is not destiny either. The panel's 58 is precisely the price of refusing to bet fully on either.
- A Cumulative Volume Figure Is Not Depth At Your Price. About 1.32 million contracts have traded across this board's two active markets, but note that nearly a fifth of that printed in a single day, on a single side. Recent quotes are a cent wide, which is deep for a state race; your fill still depends on the book at the moment you act.
What Would Change The Panel's Mind
Every seat named forward triggers at the build, and they rhyme. The re-score conditions for this board:
- A Nonpartisan Poll Breaking The Tie Decisively. A NYT/Siena- or Emerson-class survey showing Acton clearly ahead, or Ramaswamy re-opening a mid-single-digit lead, moves the blend directly; several models named exactly this as the single most estimate-moving piece of news. It is also exactly the piece of news the August 24 move did not have.
- A Second Ratings Move. Cook already sits at Toss-Up; Sabato's Crystal Ball abandoning Leans Republican would strip the panel's structural case of its last independent rating support, and a Cook reversal would do the opposite.
- A National Rally Event. The 18-of-20 midterm base rate has two exceptions, 1998 and 2002, and both required a dominant national event flipping the referendum dynamic. If one occurs before November, the environment leg of the Democratic case strengthens or collapses with it.
- Post-Labor Day Fundraising And Field Reports. An open-seat race between two first-time candidates is unusually sensitive to organization, and the August 6 semiannual filings already paid the first installment of this trigger: Acton out-raised Ramaswamy $16.5 million to $14.4 million in 2026, her third straight filing win, though his roughly $25 million in self-funding blunts what fundraising alone can signal here.
Settlement Timeline
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| November 3, 2026 | Ohio's general election; polls close and counting begins |
| After The Count | County boards and the Ohio Secretary of State canvass and certify the statewide result ahead of inauguration |
| January 2027 | The new governor is inaugurated; the contract settles on the party of the person taking office (Kalshi lists expected expiration January 14, 2027) |
This page carries a dated price stamp and gets re-scored when the story moves; the settled result and every model's number land on the public scoreboard either way.
How To Read These Prices
A Worked Example: 56.5 Cents Into A Probability
A 56.5-cent mid on the Acton contract implies roughly a 56.5% chance, taken at face value. On many boards you would first strip out the spread premium by normalizing all outcomes to sum to 100, as we walk through in converting Kalshi's cents into real odds. At the August 7 build the two mids summed to exactly 100 and there was nothing to strip; today they sum to about 101, so normalizing shaves the Acton read to about 55.9% and the Ramaswamy read to about 44.1%. The disagreement stays unusually clean to state: the market now says about 44 percent Republican, the frozen panel says 58, and almost none of that fourteen-point gap is an artifact of the spread.
Respect the shape of the risk. The standing arithmetic of event contracts, laid out in our guide to asymmetric payoffs, is that selling an unlikely outcome collects a small premium and risks most of a dollar — roughly, one loss erases the premiums from about 15 wins. This board no longer sits at 50, but 56-44 is still deep inside coin-flip territory by risk: at the market's own prices, either contract loses its full stake nearly half the time. And the panel's entire fourteen-point disagreement still rests on a single pattern, that tied Ohio polls have recently resolved to the Republican side. That is one thesis, not a diversified read. If a clean nonpartisan poll confirms what the August 24 buyers appear to believe, every leg of the argument moves at once; there is no second, independent reason holding the 58 up. On a board like this the operative question is never conviction; it is what you do when the one pattern you leaned on stops holding.
A few honest points before reading too much into the tables above:
- Eligibility. Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated event-contract exchange, not a sportsbook, with broad, state-specific availability under federal oversight. You must be 18 or older, contracts can lose their full value, and this is a market report, not advice to trade or a statement about how anyone should vote.
- Disclosure. Stokastic trades prediction markets and holds positions in them. We have no affiliate or commercial relationship with Kalshi.
- A Moving Story. The model estimates reflect what was fetched on August 7, 2026; the market data was refreshed August 25, 2026. Ten weeks of debates, disclosures, and news sit between this snapshot and the only poll that settles anything.
This method, scoring a market price-blind and publishing the disagreement, is the same one behind how these markets work across our whole prediction-market library, and this cycle's governor map has already graded it once each way: the panel's Minnesota DFL primary call, which sided with the market favorite, settled correct when Amy Klobuchar won her primary, while its Minnesota Republican primary read, a flip against the market favorite, settled wrong. Our 2026 Senate election odds page owns the national balance-of-power picture this race feeds into, so we will not re-answer that here. If the sports side of the shop is more your speed, our free expert picks cover today's slate at no cost, and OddsShopper Pro, the full toolkit behind them, starts with a free week trial.
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The Bottom Line
Kalshi's Ohio governor market spent most of August as the rare election board priced almost perfectly at 50-50, and it took exactly one trading day to stop being that: 254,279 contracts on the Acton leg on August 24, about six times the prior 16 days of volume combined, and a clearly Democrat-favored board by the close. The frozen seven-model read from August 7, Ramaswamy 58.1 percent, now sits 14 points from the print, nearly twice the distance it started at, and nothing moved in between except the price and a stack of Acton-friendly news that was already days old: the fundraising filings, Ramaswamy's booing in Cincinnati, a one-point Wedgewood edge. Either the August 24 money is early on something the public record has not caught up to, or the crowd just paid a momentum premium on a race whose polling still reads even and whose structure still leans red. The panel's own re-score triggers, a tie-breaking nonpartisan poll or a second ratings move, remain unfired; when one fires, this page re-scores on this URL. And when Ohio certifies a winner in November, the crowd's 56 and the panel's 58 on the other side get graded together, in public, on the scoreboard.
