Indiana-9 to have a recount
The Indianapolis Star reports: A recount will begin Nov. 29 to determine the winner in the 9th Congressional District race.
The Indiana Democratic Party sought the recount, as well as a contest of the election results, after the Nov. 2 election showed Republican Mike Sodrel defeated Democratic incumbent Baron Hill by 1,485 votes. ...
Democrats sought the recount, which will begin in Dubois County, because of a voting machine glitch in Franklin County that wrongly tabulated straight-ticket Democratic votes as Libertarian votes. Although that county is not in the 9th District, the same kind of voting machines also were used in three counties in the 9th -- Ripley, Scott and Switzerland.
Today, Jim Bopp, a Terre Haute attorney representing Sodrel, filed a motion contesting the results in Monroe County and alleged that voter fraud may have occurred there.
Bopp said 12,000 new voters were registered in Monroe County and that about 4,000 mailings by the county's Republican Party to those voters were returned as undeliverable by the U.S. Postal Service. -- Recount approved for 9th District race