GOP Candidate’s Loss by 1 Vote Prompts Calls for Whole New Election After Issue of Shady Count Raised

A tight Louisiana election has now become an even more complex issue now that two people have been found to have voted twice in an election decided by one vote. A runoff election for Caddo Parish sheriff was held on…

IJR SyndicatedNov 26, 20233 min read

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rolls, he said.

“It’s a sad situation because it’s two people who didn’t understand what they were doing. This wasn’t malicious,” Spence said.

Spence said he spoke to one voter before saying there was no intent to game the system. He said the age of the other voter who cast two ballots was in the late 80s or early 90s.

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Even before the recount, which takes place Monday, Nickelson issued a call for a new election, and urged Whitehorn to join him, according to the Shreveport-Bossier Advocate.

“No matter what happens in any court battle following Monday’s machine recount of more than 7,700 absentee ballots many voters in our community would feel deeply disenfranchised and will question the legitimacy of this election,” Nickelson said in a letter to Whitehorn.

“Under these unique circumstances, any certification of the current result can not withstand judicial — or public — scrutiny. For that reason, I invite you to join me in asking the district court to order a special second runoff election,” he wrote.

As part of its recount, Caddo County checked voting machines but found the totals reported the first time were accurate, according to KTBS-TV.

In its report, AP noted that Louisiana uses Voting machines that do not have a paper trail. That means that other than checking the totals, there is no more information that can be gathered from the Voting machines.

Monday’s recount will only sift through absentee ballots, which AP said were about 17 percent of the total votes cast.

Louisiana uses paperless touchscreen Voting machines that were purchased in 2005. Louisiana is the only state where such machines are used statewide.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.