Trowbridge files for recount in Ward 4 race

By Jeremy Twitchell (contact)

Published Thursday, June 11, 2009 | 5:26 p.m.

Updated Thursday, June 11, 2009 | 8:02 p.m.

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Glenn Trowbridge

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Stavros Anthony

After calling his 10-vote loss to Stavros Anthony a "statistical tie" in the June 2 race for the Las Vegas City Council Ward 4 seat, Glenn Trowbridge filed a recount request with the city this morning.

Out of the 6,608 votes cast, the 10 votes that separated Anthony, a Metro Police captain and two-term member of the Nevada Higher Education System's Board of Regents, and Trowbridge, chairman of the city's Planning Commission, represented a margin of just 0.16 percent.

Trowbridge paid the city $800 to recount 492 mail ballots that came from four precincts. The recount has been scheduled for Monday at 1 p.m., he said.

Though he said he has no idea whether the recount will change the outcome, Trowbridge said he felt it was necessary to take a second look at the razor-thin margin.

"I just think it's an opportunity for the 94,000 people that this seat will represent to have some assurance that the correct person will be seated," he said.

Anthony, who as it stands is scheduled to be sworn it at Wednesday's City Council meeting at 9 a.m., said he is confident that the recount will uphold the election's outcome.

"At this point, I'm going to let the legal process work," he said. "I have full faith in the Elections Department and I'm just looking forward to being sworn in Wednesday morning and going to work."