The Republican National Committee is, at this moment, working to elect its next chairman or chairwoman.  Currently on the fourth ballot, the election has taken all afternoon.

UPDATE: 4:12 p.m. four candidates left after round four. Now counting ballots.

UPDATE: 4:21 Round 4 ballots counted. Priebus (Hailey Barbour clone) wins 58 votes. 88 needed to win. Steele is our and endorses LIBERAL Cino.

Round Five: Priebus 67 votes, needed 85 to win. Cino 2nd with 40 votes, Anuzis 32, Wagoner 28.

KCC favors conservative Wagoner but it looks like the status quo will win again.

Freedomworks is carrying the balloting on its UStream  channel but unfortunately, your blogger is in a low bandwidth area, writing this post on a tablet computer.  Thus KCC is following the election on Twitter.

This evening, we will provide a full wrap up the vote with the name of the new chairman or chairwoman and the results of each balloting round.

Voting from North Carolina are NCGOP state chairman Tom Fetzer, state committeeman State Rep. David Lewis, and state committeewoman Dr.Ada Fisher.

Today is also the last day of Fetzer’s reign as state chairman.  He is stepping down early from the position, having accomplished the goals he set.  Also, during his tenure, he married, had a son, and relocated to the Wilmington area, where his wife calls home.  Fetzer grew up in Raleigh.

More on both stories tonight and on Saturday.

UPDATE: Priebus has won the election.  Details next post.

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