GA-07: Democrat Carolyn Bordeux to file for a recount
Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux said Friday she plans to request a recount in Georgia’s 7th Congressional District, where she appears to have been narrowly defeated by Republican incumbent Rob Woodall.
The Georgia State University professor trailed Woodall by 419 votes, about 0.14 percent of votes cast, as the state prepared to certify its election results on Friday evening.
Georgia code allows a losing candidate down by less than 1 percent of the vote to request a taxpayer-funded recount within two business days of the election results being finalized by the state.
The exact timing of a recount was unclear. A spokeswoman for the Secretary of State, which is charged with directing recounts, did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
Recounts are relatively quick for the state to administer, according to three elections lawyers interviewed Friday by the AJC, since most votes are cast electronically and can be easily be reprocessed. Absentee and provisional ballots take slightly longer to tabulate.
But recounts rarely change election results by substantial margins.
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