Adam Frisch Concedes Colorado House Race To Boebert

Democrat Adam Frisch conceded the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District today to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), saying that a mandated recount was unlikely to change the outcome of the election. The latest vote totals show Boebert leading Frisch by just 0.16 percentage points, or 551 votes. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1593676940690743296 From The Hill:

In a video call with reporters, Frisch said that he had called Boebert to offer his concession. He said that while the race appeared to be headed for a mandatory recount, “the likelihood of this recount changing more than a handful of votes is very small.”

“We are not asking for this recount. It is one that the citizens of Colorado mandate through our election system,” he said, telling supporters not to donate to his campaign for the recount effort.

“Please save your money for your groceries, your rent, your children,” he said.

Under state law, an automatic recount is triggered if the margin in a race is half a percentage point or less of the top vote-getter’s total. A study conducted by FairVote of statewide and national races across the U.S. between 2010 and 2019 found recounts rarely result in a change of winning candidates. Of the 5,778 races examined, only 31 resulted in recounts, and only 3 saw the winning candidate changed. Of those three races, the largest swing in votes occurred in the 2008 U.S. Senate election in Minnesota which found a change of 440 votes, or 0.018% of the total vote. https://twitter.com/Conrad_Swanson/status/1593671129809330176