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 President Trump in a Sunday night tweet said that due to the “process” voters must go through to obtain an absentee ballot, such voting is safer than general mail-in balloting — and he pointed to a voter-fraud scandal out of New Jersey back in May as evidence that universal mail-in voting would cause widespread problems. 

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A recount for the Charlestown, Indiana, mayoral election was held Saturday, and while the vote totals slightly changed, Treva Hodges still ended up winning.Hodges, a Democrat, had initially beat Bob Hall, the Republican incumbent mayor of the Southern Indiana city, by 32 votes in November's election.A three-member recount commission worked through ballots for several hours Saturday and found that Hodges ended up receiving 1,353 votes to Hall's 1,329 votes, according to commission member Larry Wilder.The 23-vote difference means Hall picked up nine votes after the recall."The results show what I said all along they would show," Hodges, 40, told The Courier Journal by phone Saturday afternoon. "I think it's important because it reveals the ultimate will of the people was held up on Election Day. Despite the small shift in the vote margin, which is reasonable, I think it confirms the will of the people."

Hall did not immediately return a call Saturday afternoon seeking comment.The recount may be over, but an election contest from Hall is still pending in court.Attorneys for Hodges have asked a judge to dismiss the contest, stating that Hall’s petition did not comply with several statutory requirements.Following the close election in November, Hall had filed for a recount, citing "some anomalies."Hall claimed there were several errors during the election, including the counting of absentee ballots and the programming of the electronic voting system.He also claimed that at least one employee of the Clark County Voter Registration Office “openly encouraged people who did not live in the City of Charlestown to cast ballots.”Clark County Clerk Susan Popp had previously told The Courier Journal that the county already did a recanvass, as they do after every election, to ensure there were no anomalies.Background:Charlestown mayor Bob Hall files for recount after losing electionPopp said that "all those numbers checked out" from the election and "I think everyone should feel comfortable with the process." Both Hall and Hodges were allowed to pick one person for the recount commission and ended up choosing Democrat John Grannan and Wilder, a Republican. The two men are also attorneys.Both parties agreed upon the third member, William Vissing, an election mechanic.

After Hall announced his intent to call for a recount, Hodges had said the mayor had a right to do so and that she was confident she would still be the winner after the process was complete.But Hodges, who Clark County Democrats say is the first female mayor to ever hold office in the county, said a few days before the recount that the election contest petition from Hall's team "has no factual basis or merit." Get the Coronavirus Watch newsletter in your inbox.Updates on how the coronavirus is affecting your community and the nationDelivery: VariesYour Email"It relies on gossip and innuendo," Hodges said in a statement. "We are fortunate that this election was conducted in a fair, accurate, and professional manner, and nothing in the election contest petition calls that into question."A hearing on the contest petition is scheduled for Tuesday in Clark Circuit Court.The mayoral race in the Indiana city roughly 30 minutes north of Louisville was lively, with Hodges, an Ivy Tech adjunct professor, condemning the long-time mayor's attempts to remake Pleasant Ridge as a more upscale neighborhood,That controversy only grew when Hall said in 2017 he did nothing wrong in trying to help remove a "low-rent" neighborhood that can attract people "who are not contributing to society." Hodges promised during her campaign to make the city more financially transparent and advocated for restoring private property rights and seeking residents' opinions at town hall meetings. Saturday continued an eventful 48-hour period for Hodges. On Thursday night, she was honored with a swearing-in ceremony at a Clark County Democrats holiday party in Jeffersonville.And on Friday, Hodges went through a hooding ceremony at the University of Louisville for her recently-completed doctoratal degree in humanities.She said she will step down from her teaching role at Ivy Tech to work full-time in the mayoral role.The recount and ongoing court challenge has not slowed down her transition process "one bit," Hodges said."I never stopped my transition process. I had full faith in the clerk's office in Clark County," Hodges said.She added that she will keep in mind the close result of the mayoral race as she leads Charlestown."I think it places a heightened responsiblity on me as mayor to realize there are portions of people in Charlestown who did not vote for me," Hodges said. "I look forward to serving all residents of the city."