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September 13, 2006

Six local candidates ask for primary recounts

PROVIDENCE -- After losing by margins ranging from one vote to 94, six primary candidates around Rhode Island have asked the state Board of Elections to recount the results of their races.

State law required candidates to request a recount by today at 4 p.m.

Four of the candidates asking for a second look are Democratic hopefuls in Providence City Council races.

Ward 8 contender Wilbur Jennings asked for a recount today after apparently losing by 10 votes to Leon Tejada, who earned 27.75 percent of the vote to Jennings’ 27.06 percent, according to unofficial results from the state Board of Elections.

Carol Romano, the incumbent councilwoman in Ward 4, apparently lost to Nicholas Narducci by 28 votes. She also asked for a recount today.

In the Ward 10 primary, Pedro Espinal wants to double check the numbers after the tally showed he lost to incumbent Luis Aponte by 15 votes. And Sabina Matos, a candidate in the Ward 15 race, wants a recount as well after coming in behind incumbent Josephine Diruzzo by 94 votes.

Outside of Providence, just one vote separated the race for the second of two Republican Exeter School Committee nominations. The unofficial count from the Board of Elections gave 387 votes for Chairwoman Susan DeSack and 386 votes for incumbent Paul R. McFadden, who requested a recount today.

And Pawtucket City Council District 3 incumbent Albert Joseph Vitali has asked for a recount after losing by 58 votes to Henry Kinch.

The recounts have been tentatively scheduled at the state Board of Elections Friday at noon.

-- projo.com staff writer Steve Peoples

When asked, the state will recheck the "memory packs" from each district in races decided by less than 2 percent of the local races. (Rhode Islanders vote using a computerized ballot-scanning system.)

Election law requires the state to manually re-feed the ballots into optical scanning machines if the margin of victory is less than one half of 1 percent after the initial memory pack recount.

For unoffical results from the state Board of Elections for races statewide, go to: http://projo.com/extra/election/

-- projo.com staff writer Steve Peoples

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September 13, 2006

Six local candidates ask for primary recounts

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