Ottawa County Commissioner primary election recount finds less than 0.1% margin of error

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — Over the course of about nine hours Thursday, nearly a dozen precincts in Ottawa County participated in a recount of ballots from the August primary election.

The recount stemmed from a request from 9th District County Commissioner Roger Belknap after losing to his challenger Phil Kuyer in the primary earlier this month.

Initial results from the election show Kuyer winning by a commanding 16 points with 4,070 votes cast for Kuyer and 2,997 cast for Belknap.

The results of the recount showed a similar story with Kuyer actually netting an additional five votes in the process.

Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck said he was happy with the great work that the local clerks and election workers both during the recount and during the election.



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