The Secretary of State’s Office says it erroneously declared the wrong winner in the Green Party’s U.S. Senate primary.
Write-in candidate Eduardo Quintana received 282 write-in votes, the most of any candidate. But the canvass signed by Secretary of State Adrian Fontes on Thursday declared Mike Norton the winner.
Norton, whose name appeared on the ballot, received 180 votes. Arturo Hernandez, a third candidate in the race, received 106 votes.
After being contacted by KJZZ News, the Secretary of State’s Office said it is correcting the error.
“We are correcting the canvass [to] reflect that outcome,” said Aaron Thacker, a spokesman for the secretary of state.