Washington County clerk Elizabeth Battey said this afternoon that official recount results for the Progressive gubernatorial primary would be available Monday, at the earliest.
Battey said that while Washington County had finished its recount, she still had to compile tallies from the 13 other counties, and that a judge still had to officially certify the results, likely sometime early next week.
She said she couldn’t release unofficial results to reporters before the official certification.
Write-in challenger Annette Smith, who requested the recount, expressed surprise on hearing about the delays. “What’s taking them so long? How hard is it to compile results?” she asked.
“It’s been a very strange and fairly chaotic process,” she continued. “I’m shocked by this whole lack of a clear path to getting results in a timely manner. It certainly has exposed a lot of problems in the electoral process.”
