Whitead survives recount, wins District 1 House seat
UPDATE:
By Bret Hayworth | Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- The recount of the Iowa House District 1 race confirmed the original winner with about the same vote total as the first count.
Tonight, the three-man Woodbury County Recount Board finished two days of poring over more than 12,200 ballots from 10 city precincts by hand and machine, and again found incumbent Democrat Wes Whitead to be the winner.
The original vote had Whitead beating Republican challenger Jeremy Taylor by a margin of 6,152 to 6,092. The recount had the tally at 6,148 to 6,093.
With that outcome, Taylor said he considers the race over.
Although Taylor was disappointed to lose by only 55 votes, he said the recount resolved any questions he had about the process and that he was at peace with the results.
Taylor contended the closeness of the election and the snafus in counting ballots over eight days after the Nov. 4 election warranted a recount, so he filed for one on Nov. 11.
The recount board began Tuesday morning and completed three precincts that day, initially counting by hand and then by voting machine to confirm those hand counts.
The counting continued by machine today after there were not major differences between the recount of the first three precincts and the original results.
Tonight, the three-man Woodbury County Recount Board finished two days of poring over more than 12,200 ballots from 10 city precincts by hand and machine, and again found incumbent Democrat Wes Whitead to be the winner.
The original vote had Whitead beating Republican challenger Jeremy Taylor by a margin of 6,152 to 6,092. The recount had the tally at 6,148 to 6,093.
With that outcome, Taylor said he considers the race over.
Although Taylor was disappointed to lose by only 55 votes, he said the recount resolved any questions he had about the process and that he was at peace with the results.
Taylor contended the closeness of the election and the snafus in counting ballots over eight days after the Nov. 4 election warranted a recount, so he filed for one on Nov. 11.
The recount board began Tuesday morning and completed three precincts that day, initially counting by hand and then by voting machine to confirm those hand counts.
The counting continued by machine today after there were not major differences between the recount of the first three precincts and the original results.
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