Judicial race recount in Arkansas
Pope County [Arkansas] election officials will recount more than 6,900 votes by hand Saturday to ensure results in a circuit judge election are accurate.
Unofficial totals have Gordon "Mack" McCain Jr. of Ozark meeting Russellville attorney Timm Murdoch in a runoff election in November. But Iva Nell Gibbons of Clarksville, the third-place finisher in the race, is challenging the results from Pope County because of vote-tallying irregularities. ...
Pope County election officials have said vote-tallying machines did not originally count all of the votes, and the latest count is the most accurate. Brown said he called for the recount when he saw results coming from the machine were not in line with the number of votes cast.
The machine problems and the necessity for the early-morning recount prompted Gibbons to request a recount by hand. She paid just under $1,800 for the recount. -- Judge recount set for Saturday (The Courier, Russellville, Ark.)
Human counters will recheck the machine totals. Luckily, they have the paper to count.