Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announces ballot recount for House District 19 (part of Sanford, ME) as Republican Harrington seems to top Democrat Jean Noon by as little as 14 votes.

 

11/06/2015 01:21 PM EST

 

Democrat William F. Noon,

 passed from cancer on July 15, 2015

 

 

AUGUSTA - A recount has been requested and scheduled for the office of State Representative in District 19 (part of Sanford), Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announced Friday.

Candidate Jean Noon (D) submitted her formal request for the recount on Wednesday, Nov. 4 based upon the unofficial preliminary results, which showed a difference of 14 votes between her and candidate Matthew A. Harrington (R). Independent candidate Victor E. DiGregorio, who garnered 111 votes, is not part of the recount.

Democrat Jean Noon,

Ran in special election to fill her late husband's State Representative position.

 

Matthew Harrington, Republican

May have beat Mrs. Noon by as little as 14 votes.

 

To view table link: http://www.maine.gov/sos/news/2015/district19recount.html

The recount has been scheduled for Friday, Nov. 13 at 9:30 a.m. in the Florian Room of the Maine Department of Public Safety Building, 45 Commerce Drive in Augusta.

Recounts are a public proceeding and are usually completed in one day. In a recount, the representatives of each candidate and staff members from the Department of the Secretary of State manually review each ballot to determine the official vote tally.

Results of the recount will be posted on the Maine Department of the Secretary of State website at http://maine.gov/sos/cec/ and Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/MaineSOS/?ref=hl and released to the media via email.

State law requires the State Police to collect the ballots for the recount and keep them in a secure State Police facility until the recount has been completed. The ballots are stored in tamperproof metal containers and are closed with specially numbered security seals and locks.