Republican Nancy Landry and Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup finished in a near dead heat Saturday to advance to a Nov. 18 runoff election for Louisiana secretary of state.
Landry and Collins-Greenup both polled 19% of the vote, just ahead of the third-place finisher, Public Service Commissioner Mike Francis, a Republican, at 18%. With only a few precincts left to tally, the difference between…