Demonstrating with large blowups of printouts of individual precinct results from this year’s District 29 Senate race, unsuccessful GOP candidate Tom Katsilometes told the Senate State Affairs Committee this morning that he believes the election results – in which he lost to Sen. Mark Nye, D-Pocatello – weren’t valid. Katsilometes contended that the Board of Canvassers results issued for the election were incorrect, because they were based on improper machine-counted results.

In some cases, he said, “Some of the ballots that were later used to create the recount had overvotes for” Nye, saying, “they had ovals circled for Mr. Nye, and also write-ins circled for Mr. Nye, and his name written in.”

Katsilometes ran out of time, and Senate State Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Siddoway, R-Terreton, cut him off. Now, senators are closely questioning his attorney, Kahle Becker, before Nye and his counsel begin their arguments.