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Article: Recount requested; Rushton seeks `accuracy of the vote'.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2007
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Byline: Nick Kotsopoulos
WORCESTER - The mayor's election is anything but over.
Frederick C. Rushton, who unofficially finished 105 votes behind Konstantina B. Lukes in Tuesday's mayoral election, announced yesterday that he will ask for a hand recount of all ballots cast.
Mr. Rushton said he is asking for the recount because the difference in the vote totals between he and Mrs. Lukes is less than one half of 1 percent, and because no votes were tabulated in the mayor's race on more than 4 percent, or 925, of the ballots.
He said questions have been raised in other communities across the country about the accuracy of the computer voting ...