Failed GOP candidate for Idaho contests election results

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Idaho Senate is formally contesting the election results in Bannock County.

The Spokesman-Review reports (https://goo.gl/Ke1lqY ) that Tom Katsilometes - not the longtime county commissioner and current state tax commissioner by that name, but a cousin -- lost to new Sen. Mark Nye, a Democrat from Pocatello.

Katsilometes filed a formal challenge with the Senate on Thursday. He claims Nye violated campaign finance laws, though a complaint he filed earlier to the Idaho secretary of state's office was dismissed. He also says Bannock County made errors "in counting or in declaring the result of the election" and that the county's vote tabulation machines "were not properly prepared and certified."

Nye, who received 48 percent of the vote to 45 percent for Katsilometes, called it sour grapes and said he won fair and square.

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