You’d think that once Maine Republican state legislator Lucas Lanigan turned himself in to face domestic abuse charges two days before the election, his political career would be over, right? Well, not in today’s political climate, in which Lanigan won re-election to his seat according to a second recount of the votes which found he won by a single vote, NBC News reports.
Lanigan’s wife originally told police the Republican choked her after she confronted him about an alleged affair. His wife later attempted to withdraw the charges, claiming it was a misunderstanding. Still, Lanigan got 2,478 votes to Democratic challenger Patty Kidder’s 2,477.