Recount of invalid votes in Budapest mayoral election starts today
The National Election Office (NVI) on Friday started recounting the invalid votes cast at the Budapest mayoral election at the June 9 election.
NVI head Attila Nagy said officials were looking for valid votes erroneously classified as invalid, and scrutinise each vote with more than one mark on the sheet.
National Election Committee head Róbert Sasvári said a decision could be forthcoming as soon as Friday afternoon.
At the vote on Sunday, Karácsony prevailed with 371,466 votes, while Vitézy got 371,142. The candidate of the radical nationalist Our Homeland Movement, András Grundtner, garnered 38,942 votes.
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