Reply #12: The vote totals changed, even though the outcome didn't [View All]

[John Q. Citizen]

Before the recount (and we don't know if it was hand counted or if they ran the optical scan cards through again)Friede was trailing by 55 votes, after the recount he was trailing by 40 votes.

This shows that the original count was wrong 9or the recount was wrong) but we don't have enough data to say how wrong. They also don't give us the original and the recount totals on all the candidtes.


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Peterborough Democrat John Friede had asked for the recount of the Nov. 2 election after finishing fifth, 55 votes behind Peterborough Republican Larry Ross. After the recount, Ross edged Friede for fourth place by 40 votes, 3,003 to 2,963.
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