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Friday, February 10, 2012
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County election board orders all-vote recount
SCRANTON (AP) - An elections board in northeastern Pennsylvania has ordered a recount of all votes cast in the Nov. 3 general election.
The Lackawanna County Board of Elections took action Thursday in the wake of a faulty vote count for at least two candidates. Republican leaders had asked for the recounts based on a computer coding error that cost a Scranton councilwoman and a candidate for tax collector as many as 2,452 straight-party votes.
The board ordered a manual recount of votes in nine election contests, including Scranton mayor, council, tax collector and school board. For all other races countywide, the board ordered a manual recount of a 2 percent sample of ballots.
Finally, the board ordered a countywide recount of all ballots using a high-speed counting machine.
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Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
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