Battle Creek, and Republican challenger Steve Frisbie, also from Battle Creek, was expected to be close. But the outcome was thrown into controversy when initial unofficial results, which showed Frisbie beating Haadsma by close to 1,

A Calhoun County judge rejected Wednesday a lawsuit from a Republican candidate who sought to stop the re-tallying of some absentee ballots in a key race for the Michigan state House that currently has an unofficial margin of victory of just 58 votes.

A legal dispute is brewing over the retabulation of some votes in Calhoun County, with potential that the new count could affect who is sent to the Michigan House of Representatives.

Avon, said the Torrington recount narrowed Democrat Paul Honig’s margin of victory to less than one half of 1%, or 266 votes, in the 11-town district she represents, one of the standards for an automatic recount throughout the district under state law.

An eight-term Democratic state representative in Connecticut lost her recount to a newcomer Republican on Tuesday night.

Unofficial results from a partial recount in a competitive state House race in Torrington showed Republican Joe Canino up by 55 votes against incumbent Democratic state representative Michelle Cook. Cook,