FLINT, MI -- Election workers will have a second look -- one by one -- this week at the 513 ballots cast in a special primary election to fill a vacant seat on the Flint City Council.

Candidate LaShawn Johnson, who finished just three votes behind two leading candidates in the May 6 primary, requested a recount of the four precincts and absentee ballots from the city’s 3rd Ward.

Johnson received 162 votes in that election, trailing candidates Beverly Biggs-Leavy and A.C. Dumas, each of whom received 165, according to official results certified by the Genesee County Board of Canvassers.

If Biggs-Leavy and Dumas remain the two top vote-getters after the recount, the two would face off in a general election on Aug. 6 with the winner completing the term of the late Quincy Murphy, who died

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