Baltimore’s elections board recertified the results of the April primary election Wednesday after an unusual intervention by state officials. The updated vote totals didn’t change the outcome of any race. Any candidate who wants a recount now has three days to make a request. Anyone who wants to challenge the outcome of the race in court has seven days to file papers. State officials ordered Baltimore’s election results decertified this month after city officials said they found 80 provisional ballots that had not been analyzed. The state review, which lasted more than a week, turned up other problems: Officials concluded that roughly 1,650 ballots were not handled properly. The last step before finalizing the figures was analyzing 555 uncounted provisional ballots that state officials said had not been analyzed or counted. Officials had previously said they thought 465 provisional ballots had been overlooked.
On Wednesday, 386 of the ballots were rejected, city elections director Armstead B.C. Jones Sr. said. While there were several close races in Baltimore, the 169 that were counted were not enough to make a difference in any race.
The newly discovered ballots helped former Mayor Sheila Dixon close the gap on state Sen. Catherine E. Pugh by 40 votes in the Democratic mayoral primary, but she remains about 2,400 votes behind.
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