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Mark Zdechlik
St. Paul

Mills drops push for MN 8th District race recount

Stewart Mills addresses his supporters.
Republican Stewart Mills addresses supporters shortly after Minnesota polls closed as he arrived at a brewery in for his election night rally Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016., in Nisswa, Minn. Mills is seeking to unseat Democrat Congressman Rick Nolan in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District race.
Jim Mone | AP

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Republican Stewart Mills says he's decided not to seek a recount after all of votes in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District. Mills had said he believed it was possible a hand recount of some 357,000 ballots would produce a different result than the machine count that showed he'd lost to DFL U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan by just over 2,000 votes in a hard-fought race considered one of the most competitive congressional contests in the nation this year.

Mills had also said his campaign would pay for a recount that would have cost at least $102,000.

On Friday afternoon, however, Mills released a statement saying he concluded the expense and amount of volunteer time that would have been needed for a recount was too much. He congratulated Nolan and thanked election workers for their efforts.