
By Marilyn Odendahl The Indiana Citizen August 11, 2026 Little more than an hour into the Indiana Recount Commission’s four-hour hearing on Monday, the narrow three-vote lead that state Sen. Spencer Deery had held since the May Republican primary for Senate District 23 had evaporated for good. Deery, R-Lafayette, had been declared the winner of the May primary with 6,337 votes to 6,334 for his challenger, Paula Copenhaver, but sooner after the ...
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