Circuit clerk race calls for recount

Members of the canvassing board count provisional ballots Tuesday. | Alison James

Tuesday’s count of the provisional ballots by the canvassing board brought the county one step closer to certified elections results and revealed a possible next step – an automatic recount of votes in the circuit clerk’s race.

Votes for the circuit clerk position will be recounted because the current winning candidate, Patrick Craddock, is not winning by more than one half of 1 percent of the votes – in other words, he did not win by a margin of more than 91 votes.