Projet, Ensemble ask for four recounts each
Projet and Ensemble are each asking for four recounts of results in the recent election. Two Ensemble councillors lost by 6 votes each, although the party is also contesting a result involving a loss by 300 votes, which is a bit of a stretch.
Ian 19:39 on 2025-11-10 Permalink
I think they should fight it out with oversized hammers, dressed as clowns.
Nicholas 14:50 on 2025-11-11 Permalink
Only way 300 votes change is if there was some transcription error, which would normally be caught by the end of validation. Even with that many rejected ballots, the error rate is not that low, and in municipals, where there are many ballots for many positions, people often only vote for one so there are more rejected ballots for borough-level positions (if you only care about mayor you still get all the ballots, while at federal if you don’t care about a race you just don’t show up). The other contests are plausible to change, but as the article notes, last time none changed, so it really has to be close, like single digits or slightly higher.