This appeared in Saturday’s Philadelphia Daily News...
A judge yesterday granted a request by Republicans for a hand recount of ballots in a close legislative election that will determine whether Democrats will reclaim the majority in the state House of Representatives after 12 years.
Chester County Judge Howard F. Riley Jr. said the recount of the election, in which Democrat Barbara McIlvaine Smith defeated Republican Shannon Royer by 23 votes, would begin Tuesday and continue "each day thereafter."
The Democrats had sought a machine recount of the 23,000 ballots and wanted them to be run through a different kind of optical scanner than that which was used in the Nov. 7 general election, a process they said could be completed in three days. But the Republicans have said they are concerned about evidence that some ballots may not have been scanned properly, and proposed a hand count that they estimate will take about two weeks.
The Democrats ended up with a 102-101 majority after November's election. Smith and Royer competed to succeed Republican Rep. Elinor Z. Taylor, who retired after serving 15 two-year terms.
Gosh, I don’t know about you, but I recall an election not so long ago where the Republicans did everything they could to stop a hand recount (
and succeeded, unfortunately).
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