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A recount for the District 121 State House seat race in Cape Elizabeth will be held Monday, Nov. 27.

Jennifer Duddy requested a recount on her race against Cynthia Dill after hearing on Nov. 13 about a mistake on vote counting. A total of 92 votes may have been miscounted in a race that Dill won, 2,432-2,256, but there’s almost no chance the recount will affect the outcome.

During the vote count, 241 write-in ballots were possibly counted twice, once by machine and once by hand, said April Cohen-Tracy, Cape Elizabeth town clerk. A ballot is normally counted electronically. However, a machine cannot recognize a write-in candidate. Only the write-in races are supposed to be hand counted after the electronic tally, but all the races on the write-in ballots may have been hand counted as well.

“I don’t expect a change,” said Duddy last Thursday. She filed a recount with the Secretary of State’s office on Nov. 14. Duddy had to pay $500 for the recount because the voting margin between the two candidates was more than 2 percent. Duddy said she worked hard on her campaign and this is the only way for her to get an accurate tally on the race.

The write-in and blank ballots involving the District 121 race total 92, and will be recounted by the Secretary of State’s office, said Cohen-Tracy. She said no mistakes on the blank ballots were believed to have occured, but they are being counted anyway.

“It is unsettling,” said Dill on Monday. She said she has been hearing that a change in the election’s outcome is unlikely, but, said said, “It will be nice to have it resolved once and for all.”

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