The Monroe County Democratic Party Chair David Henry says he will file a recount petition today for District 62’s race between Dave Hall, a Republican and Penny Githens, a Democrat.
After provisional ballots were added to totals earlier this month, Hall is leading Githens by 40 votes.
The deadline for a county party chair to file petition for recount would have been Friday – 17 days after election day. But the deadline was extended to Monday because of the holiday last week.
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The petition asks for a recount in all 43 precincts across Brown, Jackson, and Monroe Counties to account for possibility of human error in counties like Monroe and Brown, which rely on paper ballots.
