Reply #32: Flint MI.- 5th ward recount [View All]

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Flint finishes 5th Ward recountResults and winners remain the same
By Randy Conat
FLINT (WJRT) - (11/29/05)-- A recount of ballots in a Flint City Council race has failed to overturn the election.

Benny Spence lost in the November 8th general election to incumbent Carolyn Sims by just 38 votes. At his request, a recount was held this morning by the Genesee County Board of Canvassers.
Some of Spence's campaign workers urged him to file for a recount because they thought some absentee ballots weren't handled correctly.

The Board of Canvassers, along with Genesee County election officials, and staff members from the Flint City Clerk's office, processed the 97 absentee ballots again and came up with the same results.

Sims received 62 absentee votes while Spence got 35.

Hundreds of other regular ballots were also counted before the Board of Canvassers certified that Sims had won re-election.

City Clerk Inez Brown says the recount shows how accurate her staff is. "We feel very confident in the work that they do, in terms of their integrity, in terms of the process and in terms of what they do to assist the voters and so forth. But I should also indicate that Mr. Spence, and any other candidate, has the right to request a recount if so desired," she said. "Because we feel very confident that the work we do will meet the test."

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