Sutton picks up 2 votes in White County

December 8, 2006 by Doug Masson 2 Comments

The recount in the Lehe/Sutton race for the Indiana House of Representatives is still underway. Unofficial recount numbers have Sutton gaining 2 votes on Lehe in White County. Prior to the recount, Lehe lead Sutton by 27 votes.

White County constitutes about 22% of the total vote for the district. The other counties are Newton, Benton, and Lake. Lake County constitutes somewhere around 40% of the district’s votes.

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Branden Robinson says

December 12, 2006 at 15:37 -05006

It looks like this is over.

The meeting [today, of the Indiana Recount Commission] was held to formally dismiss the recount petition filed for the District 15 race in four counties in Northwest Indiana, where Republican incumbent Donald Lehe had defeated Democratic challenger Myron Sutton by 27 votes in Election Day counting.

By a unanimous vote, the three-member Recount Commission granted the dismissal requested by Democrats. In doing so, however, the commission also adopted a State Board of Accounts report that showed a net difference of one vote in the board’s official recount.

(via the Indy Star)

I guess the Democrats decided to throw in the towel on this one.

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Doug says

December 12, 2006 at 15:40 -05006

And rightly so, it looks like. It was close, but Lehe won and Sutton lost. However, I think asking for the recount in the first place was reasonable.

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