The election results for House District 43 will be recounted after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office on Thursday accepted a recount request from Republican Rep. Kurt Huffman.
Based on the uncertified election results, Democratic candidate Robert “Bob” Marshall won the House District 43 seat in Douglas County, beating Huffman by 405 votes. Marshall received 22,877 votes, or 50.45% of ballots cast, and Huffman received 22,472 votes, or 49.55%.
That margin of victory is too large to mandate an automatic recount — which is triggered only when the margin between the two top-finishers is 0.5% or less of the leading candidate's vote total. Huffman requested a recount on Monday and paid the $738 that the operation will cost Douglas County on Wednesday.
Douglas County was notified to begin the recount on Thursday and must complete it by Dec. 15, according to the Secretary of State's Office.
At Huffman’s request, the recount will be conducted via readjudication, meaning only the ballots that needed to be reexamined by election judges during the initial count will be examined in the recount, to ensure the human adjudications were accurate.
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