印第安纳州克拉克县民主党11月12日下午正式提出重计申请：州参议院第45选区差距297票、县审计官差距257票，4个投票区总数争议一并送重计委员会
美国印第安纳州杰斐逊维尔消息，印第安纳州克拉克县一场计票争议正被送往印第安纳重计委员会。据《印第安纳公民报》11 月 12 日报道，克拉克县民主党周四下午宣布，将就州参议院第 45 选区与克拉克县审计官两场选举提出重计申请与选举争议。
在州参议院第 45 选区，共和党人、参议院当选议长加滕仅以 297 票领先民主党人马歇尔。在审计官选举中，共和党人斯内林仅以 257 票领先民主党人维尔斯。
争议源于选举日的计票总数。三人组成的克拉克县选举委员会周二晚间在克拉克县法院地下室开会，试图解决选举日第 13、23、24 与 26 投票区所投选票总数上的差异。一台投票机的纸张卡纸与一份打印的票数总计记录上的时间戳引发分歧：委员会中的共和党籍县巡回法院书记官林奇与共和党籍委员辛格尔顿阻止了点算这些选票总数的努力，民主党籍主席斯蒂尔则支持点算。有关记录打印的时间戳为上午 11 时 08 分。
加滕竞选团队方面表示，预计会有人提出重计，相关问题将通过法院程序处理，这对所有人来说都要花费多得多的钱。本稿只报道申请提出与委员会程序，不对计票争议作判断。
Clark County Democrats File a Recount Petition on the Afternoon of November 12 in Indiana: The State Senate District 45 Margin Is 297 Votes and the County Auditor Margin Is 257, and the Dispute Over Totals in Four Precincts Goes to the Recount Commission
JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana, United States — A partisan election dispute in Clark County, Indiana, is heading to the Indiana Recount Commission. The Clark County Democratic Party announced on Thursday afternoon, November 12, that it was filing a recount petition and an election contest in the races for state Senate District 45 and Clark County auditor, The Indiana Citizen reported.
In state Senate District 45, Republican Senate president elect Chris Garten leads Democrat Nick Marshall by just 297 votes. In the auditor race, Republican R. Monty Snelling is only 257 votes ahead of Democrat Antonio Veals.
The dispute turns on ballot totals from Election Day. The three member Clark County Election Board met on Tuesday night in the basement of the Clark County Courthouse in Jeffersonville to try to settle questions over discrepancies in the total number of ballots cast in precincts 13, 23, 24 and 26 on Election Day. A voting machine paper jam and a disputed timestamp on a printed record of vote totals divided the board: Republican Circuit Court Clerk Ryan Lynch and Republican board member Anthony Singleton blocked the effort to count the number of ballots cast in those precincts, while Democratic board chair Andrew Steele supported it. The printed record of vote totals from those precincts is timestamped 11:08 a.m.
Garten's side said it expected a recount to be filed and that the questions would be addressed through the court process, at obviously greater cost to everybody. This item reports only the filing and the board procedure and makes no judgement on the counting dispute.
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图片来源：图：印第安纳州杰斐逊维尔的克拉克县法院（资料图），重计申请与计票争议在此审理。C. Bedford Crenshaw 摄，CC BY，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Clark County Courthouse in Jeffersonville, Indiana (file photo), where the recount petitions and ballot dispute are being handled. By C. Bedford Crenshaw, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons.
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