Michigan State Representative May Change After Recount

The voting process is something that we begin learning about in elementary school and are eventually taught most of the ins and outs by the end of high school, right before we reach the legal voting age. Every 2 years there are local elections that take place for city, township, county, and state legislative branches and most of the federal appointments are voted on every 4 years.

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Obviously, this can be a very controversial time for everyone because the candidates are doing their best to prove why they are the person to vote for but many of the topics debated on cause heated conversations amongst friends and family. Nonetheless, people go out by the millions to vote for the leaders they would like to see in place.

Michigan is one of the many states that is known as a swing state, which means their state legislature and their federal voting trends tend to sway depending on the available candidates rather than strictly leaning more one way or the other. The voting process itself has changed multiple times, and this has called for many results to be in question.

That has happened again this year, as the 44th house district seat has been granted a recount. Steve Frisbie beat incumbent State Rep. Jim Haadsma, a Democrat, by 61 votes, according to the official results but Haadsma asked for the recount which is team says is normal when the results are this close.

There were numerous delays and obstacles with voting this year which caused some confusion and worry for both sides. Currently, republicans hold a 58-52 majority in the Michigan House, but the recount will begin on Monday, December 9th and is expected to take up to 4 days.

State and local officials said Battle Creek used two high-speed absentee ballot tabulators but, due to a programming error, the reported numbers did not combine the results from the two tabulators and instead excluded about half the results.