Chris Koster
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Runner-up Margaret Donnelly already has said she will ask for a re-count.
The Missouri secretary of state certified the results of the August 5th primary Thursday. Donnelly now has a week to ask that every ballot cast in the election be re-counted.
Candidates are entitled to a re-count paid for by local election authorities when they lose by less than 1 percentage point. Koster won by a fifth of a percent.
Meanwhile, Koster apparently has more fundraising complaints pending against him.
The Missouri Ethics Commission said it has dismissed nine complaints related to fundraising by Koster and a political action committee that supported him, and Koster's campaign said it believed all complaints against him had been dismissed.
But the dismissals related only to complaints filed by supporters of Koster's one Republican and two Democratic opponents.
The Ethics Commission apparently has not acted yet on a series of similar fundraising complaints filed by a Lee's Summit resident in June.
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