PROVIDENCE -- A recount at the Rhode Island Board of Elections confirms challenger Michael Pinga as the winner of a state Senate Democratic primary in West Warwick.
The recount showed Pinga beating incumbent Sen. Stephen Alves by 17 votes. Alves, a powerful lawmaker, had served as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
The recount came after the state Supreme Court on Thursday ordered election officials to recount all the provisional, mail-in and regular ballots cast in the primary.
An earlier recount showed Pinga winning by 19 votes. At the time, the board did not recount mail-in and provisional ballots.
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