Private Investigator Wants Recount

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Story Published: Jun 5, 2008 at 9:52 PM MST

Story Updated: Nov 20, 2008 at 9:14 PM MST

By Danielle Leigh

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A private investigator hired by a group of Bingham County voters, may not have gotten all the facts before recommending the county hold a re-vote.

The investigation is in response to fall out following a mistake made during the May 27 Republican Primary Election.

On May 27, Bingham County voters headed to the polls to select a Republican nominee for sheriff. Some how the ballots made it past six people and still had a big mistake. The ordering of the names on the ballot didn't match how they were ordered in the computer system that counted each vote.

The mistake effected 19 of the 27 precincts. County clerks fixed it and recounted all the ballots twice.
Each time they got the same result. Dave Johnson was the winner by over 500 votes.

That's where Private Investigator Neil Leary comes in. A group of citizens hired him to make sure their votes were actually counted.

County Clerk Sara Staub tells me Leary never even considered how the mistake was made or how it was fixed.

The clerk says anyone with questions about how the ballot program works and how the mistake was corrected is more than welcome to come in and Staub will explain it to them.

At this time the people who hired Leary are deciding whether or not they will try to demand a re-vote.

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