Grand Haven, MI (WGHN) – An Ottawa County Commissioner is requesting a recount following the results of the August primary election. Ottawa County Commissioner Roger Belknap lost to Phil Kuyers by more than a thousand votes and through a Freedom of Information request, FOX 17 has learned that Belknap there are two issues that led to his request for a recount.
Screenshots show he had more votes than his opponent.
Complications and outages of online reporting.
Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck shared on social media that the Ottawa County Election Results webpage “experienced high traffic and a large activity load, causing the site to become temporarily unavailable.” He also said that “no vote totals were affected by the temporary website outage.” OI members have lost the majority on the board after the Primary.
Belknap also deposited $5,000 to see if these issues impacted his race results.
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