It’s official: Marilyn Loomis beat Susan Moran-Kaidme in Douglas County’s closest and friendliest election of 2012. Loomis edged her friend Moran-Kaidme by two votes, 291 to 289, for a seat on the Canyonville City Council, according to election results certified Monday. The outcome was muddied because as many as three potential voters may have been disenfranchised when the Douglas County Clerk’s Office issued them the wrong ballot. Rather than contest the outcome and call for a revote, Moran-Kaidme insisted Loomis be declared the winner. “Douglas County has better things to spend money on,” Moran-Kaidme said Tuesday. “Two votes is the …



