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Recount Sets Two-candidate Runoff For Louisiana Senate Seat
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A vote recount has pushed one Republican candidate out of the runoff for a Louisiana state Senate seat.
News media report that a hand count of paper absentee and early voting ballots Thursday determined Franklin Foil narrowly edged Steve Carter out of the second-place spot. Both men are Republican state representatives.
Foil will face Democrat Beverly Brooks Thompson in the Nov. 16 runoff for the Baton Rouge-based seat.
Foil initially had an eight-vote lead over Carter in Saturday's primary. But the secretary of state's office said Foil's lead evaporated after local election officials found problems with the scanning of mail-in absentee ballots and rescanned them.
The two men were declared tied for second-place, raising the possibility of an unusual, three-person runoff.
Foil requested Thursday's recount, done by local election officials.
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