Running down the recount and what’s next | Election Newsletter

Of all the scenarios we considered over more than a year covering this Senate race, this one wasn’t on the list.

The recount in the primary between Mehmet Oz and David McCormick got going in earnest this week, with county elections officials going about the painstaking work of re-tabulating results and making final decisions about how to count any ballots whose markings — like a half-filled bubble — might have tripped up a machine.

We won’t get final results until next week, but here’s what to expect as the process...