Clark County Democrats File a Recount Petition on the Afternoon of November 12 in Indiana: The State Senate District 45 Margin Is 297 Votes and the County Auditor Margin Is 257, and the Dispute Over Totals in Four Precincts Goes to the Recount Commission
JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana, United States — A partisan election dispute in Clark County, Indiana, is heading to the Indiana Recount Commission. The Clark County Democratic Party announced on Thursday afternoon, November 12, that it was filing a recount petition and an election contest in the races for state Senate District 45 and Clark County auditor, The Indiana Citizen reported.
In state Senate District 45, Republican Senate president elect Chris Garten leads Democrat Nick Marshall by just 297 votes. In the auditor race, Republican R. Monty Snelling is only 257 votes ahead of Democrat Antonio Veals.
The dispute turns on ballot totals from Election Day. The three member Clark County Election Board met on Tuesday night in the basement of the Clark County Courthouse in Jeffersonville to try to settle questions over discrepancies in the total number of ballots cast in precincts 13, 23, 24 and 26 on Election Day. A voting machine paper jam and a disputed timestamp on a printed record of vote totals divided the board: Republican Circuit Court Clerk Ryan Lynch and Republican board member Anthony Singleton blocked the effort to count the number of ballots cast in those precincts, while Democratic board chair Andrew Steele supported it. The printed record of vote totals from those precincts is timestamped 11:08 a.m.
Garten's side said it expected a recount to be filed and that the questions would be addressed through the court process, at obviously greater cost to everybody. This item reports only the filing and the board procedure and makes no judgement on the counting dispute.
Source: The Indiana Citizen
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Photo: 图：印第安纳州杰斐逊维尔的克拉克县法院（资料图），重计申请与计票争议在此审理。C. Bedford Crenshaw 摄，CC BY，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Clark County Courthouse in Jeffersonville, Indiana (file photo), where the recount petitions and ballot dispute are being handled. By C. Bedford Crenshaw, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons.
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