By Jack Brammer
NKy Tribune reporter
A recount of the May primary election for Northern Kentucky’s Senate District 24 paid for by Jessica Neal showed Neal still losing, Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams’ office said late Friday.
Adams’ spokesperson Michon Lindstrom said the recount that started Wednesday has been concluded and showed only one vote difference from the May Republican primary election tally.
Jessica Neal loses again in expensive recount
“Our office has not been issued the results yet, but we understand there was a one-vote difference in Campbell County’s count due to the machine reading of a ballot that was not filled out correctly,” said Lindstrom.
“There were no changes in the counts from Bracken, Kenton or Pendleton counties. The tech has been checked, and it works.”
The Secretary of State’s office could not say how the one vote was applied, since it didn’t have specific numbers from Campbell circuit court clerk’s office.
The Campbell circuit court clerk’s office said a few minutes before 4 p.m. Friday that the recount had been concluded but it did not have any figures on it.
Neal first asked for a recount on May 27. She had suggested that there was fraud in the election.
Shelley Funke Frommeyer
Adams had called Neal’s decision to post $57,368 with the Campbell circuit court clerk to get a recount of the election “frivolous.”
She posted a 1 p.m. Monday court-ordered deadline to get the recount and had raised funds to come up with the money.
Neal did not return a phone call and email Friday seeking comment on the recount.
In last May’s election, Neal trailed by about 3 percentage points to Shelley Funke Frommeyer, a Certified Financial Planner of Alexandria.
Frommeyer had 4,094 votes (38.6 percent) to Neal’s 3,787 (35.7percent). Chris Robinson, a clinical counselor of Alexandria, amassed 2,731 votes – about 25.7 percent.
Frommeyer will face Democrat Rene Heinrich, a Highland Heights city council member, in the Nov. 8 general election.
The contest is for an open seat.
Wil Schroder, a Wilder Republican, did not seek re-election.
Hmmmm. No mention of what was found out during the count. Nothing to see there…
one vote difference (reported) but specific numbers aren’t yet available so no way to know where that one vote was allocated. Plenty to see — results remain the same. We will have the specific number when it’s available. There was an explanation for why it happened, included here.