Election Recounts & Audits

Muhith Mahmood lost the mayoral election by just six votes.

The Michigan city had an unusually high number of mail ballots that needed extra signature checks.

GOP county canvassers raise security concerns about the office where the ballots were found.

Should a pivotal batch of ballots be counted, even after a potential security breach?

County canvassers raise questions after absentee ballots were stored in the wrong type of container.

With three dozen absentee ballots that weren’t properly counted on election night, Hamtramck is facing another election scandal.

A referee in the disciplinary case against former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman recommends suspending his law license for three years.

The proposal would also require counties to perform risk-limiting audits of results.

Bipartisan legislation loosens the rules for finding workers, which is a struggle for small counties. Will that be enough?

Consulting firm BerryDunn, which has worked for the county before, gets the recommendation. Past results won’t be a focus.

Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin lost by 734 votes, but his challenge to more than 65,000 ballots could set a precedent for future election disputes — and reshape the state’s highest court.

Clerks could get statewide guidance that includes new accounting procedures and end-of-night steps for Election Day.

The city clerk says her office told the county. The county clerk says that’s not true.

Supervisors say it will focus on processes, not the results of past elections, with a reputable firm in charge. 'There will be no Cyber Ninjas here.'

The commission’s first ever investigation will seek to understand how such lapses can be prevented.

Even though one candidate already has declared victory, the race between Bob Casey and Dave McCormick is close enough to trigger a recount.

Claims of malfeasance by a losing sheriff candidate were ‘completely unsupported,’ investigators concluded.

Here's how a recount could be initiated in November

Right-wing challengers are ‘throwing the kitchen sink’ into their complaints about how elections are conducted.

A higher court would have to determine whether recount petitions require evidence of fraud