As statewide recounts are underway in Florida to determine that state’s next U.S. senator and governor, one high-profile Utah election remains too close to call on Monday.
Salt Lake County mayor Ben McAdams, currently leads incumbent Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, by less than 5,000 votes in the 4th Congressional District, giving the Democratic challenger a margin of just 2.32 percentage points with tens of thousands of votes still uncounted.
But McAdams lead is — for now — well outside of recount territory. And unlike Florida, where a mandatory recount is triggered when election margins fall within one-half of 1 percent, a losing candidate in Utah must request a recount, and can do so only when they’re trailing by 0.