Now weeks after the November midterm elections and Colorado’s Secretary of State introduced that U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert did certainly win her race in opposition to Adam Frisch, if solely by just a few hundred votes.
Election officers throughout the state’s large third Congressional District tallied votes for days after the Nov. 8 election. Frisch, a Democrat and former Aspen Metropolis Council member, took the lead early on however step by step misplaced floor to Boebert. In the long run, preliminary vote tallies confirmed Boebert, of Silt, simply 554 votes forward of Frisch.
The congresswoman declared victory at that time and Frisch conceded, however each acknowledged the outcomes weren’t completed but. Boebert received with such a slim margin that the state’s election legal guidelines required an computerized recount, one thing Secretary of State Jena Griswold introduced formally on the finish of final month.
The method lasted almost two weeks and Griswold’s workplace introduced Monday night that the recount didn’t change the election end result. Boebert has received a second – and certain tumultuous – time period in Congress.
In the long run the recount solely modified 4 votes. Boebert misplaced three and Frisch gained one. The congresswoman received with 50.06% of the votes to Frisch’s 49.89%.
The Secretary of State’s Workplace will reimburse county election places of work for the price of the recount.