Oz, McCormick pick up one vote each in county recount
Warren County’s part in a statewide recount in the GOP Senate primary is complete.
The state gave notice of the recount on Wednesday.
State officials said unofficial returns show Mehmet Oz with a 902-vote margin (419,365 to 418,463) over McCormick.
The tight margin — inside one half of one percent — triggers the mandatory recount.
That was the only race subject to Friday’s recount and Oz and McCormick each picked up one vote as a result.
“We had one precinct where we expected 40 ballots, and ended with 42,” Krystle Ransom, the county’s elections director explained.
McCormick handily took Warren County, finishing with 1,888 votes. Kathy Barnett actually came in second with 1,473 votes while Oz finished in third with 1,436.
Those results show that turnout in the primary election was just shy of 30.5 percent.
Ransom previously told the Times Observer that the process is “quite anticlimactic.”
“We run each batch through the scanner that we did not use on election night and tabulate just as we did on election day,” she said. “The only race that we are looking at is the US Senate.”
Counties have a week to complete its portion of the recount so it will still be a while before the final totals are settled.




