Tulsa County Election Board To Resume Counting Votes For Mayoral Race Friday Morning

A judge ordered recounts for the City of Tulsa mayoral race and the District-3 city council race on Thursday morning.

The Tulsa County Election Board completed the District 3 recount Thursday afternoon and reported Jackie Dutton lost three votes from the original count, and Susan Frederick also lost three votes, leaving the outcome of Dutton winning by 186 votes the same.

Tulsa mayoral candidate Brent VanNorman requested a manual recount on August 30. He said he wants to make sure the 438-vote margin that left him in third is accurate.

“We're not alleging there was an impropriety at all; we just want to make sure again that things are accurate, and on an election of this size, there are certainly opportunities for things to happen that can be inaccurate, so we're certainly looking forward to having accurate results,” VanNorman said.

The recount of ballots cast in the race for Tulsa mayor will resume at 9 a.m. on Friday, but the results are not expected for several days.