Muhith Mahmood said he is filing a recount after yesterday’s official election results deemed Adam Alharbi the winner of the Hamtramck mayoral election by only 6 votes.

The results came two weeks after election day because 120 absentee ballots had to wait on signatures and other small fixes before being counted.

An additional 37 votes from absentee ballots were excluded from the official count after they were found improperly stored in City Clerk Rana Faraj’s office.

Faraj was suspended and is now under investigation.

Mahmood said he isn’t upset by the election results. He said someone has to lose.

“That’s just what democracy should be,” Mahmood said. “But the way canvassers denied or rejected 37 votes, that is concerning…I think that was not the right thing to do.”

Mahmood told WDET

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