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Ensign questions recount cost

Friday, Aug. 6, 1999 | 11:14 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Former Rep. John Ensign wants a recount of the costs of the recount of the election last November in which he lost to Sen. Harry Reid by 401 votes.

Ensign, through his lawyer Alex Flangas, has asked Secretary of State Dean Heller to take another look at the cost of the recount in Washoe County where there was a ballot snafu.

Flangas, in letter to Heller, suggests Ensign may have been overcharged in Washoe County where the recount took more than a week because of faulty ballots.

Ensign paid $55,965 for the recount, of which $33,534 went to Washoe County. Ensign wants a recount of costs, suggesting that $18,000 paid personnel during the recount and $12,390 to print duplicate ballots should be disallowed.

Ensign lost to Reid by 401 votes in the original statewide tally. In the recount, Ensign, who is running for the Senate again next year, was short by 428 votes.

Pamela Crowell, deputy secretary of state in charge of elections, said today that Washoe County has rechecked its costs and has verified they are all legitimate.

She said she expects to respond to Ensign sometime next week.

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