Demo­c­ra­t­ic pri­ma­ry in Arizona’s 3rd Dis­trict still close, could be head­ed for recount

PHOENIX (AP) — The Demo­c­ra­t­ic pri­ma­ry in Arizona’s 3rd Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict still remains too close to call and could be head­ed for a recount.
For­mer Phoenix City Coun­cil mem­ber Yas­samin Ansari led for­mer state law­mak­er Raquel Terán by 67 votes with near­ly 44,000 bal­lots count­ed as of Sat­ur­day evening.
Ansari’s lead was 89 votes on Fri­day, a mar­gin of just 0.21 per­cent­age points and with­in the range of an auto­mat­ic recount. Ari­zona law calls for a recount if the mar­gin is 0.5 per­cent­age points or less.
Mari­co­pa Coun­ty elec­tion offi­cials said about 99% of the rough­ly 740,000 bal­lots cast in Tuesday’s pri­ma­ry elec­tion had been tab­u­lat­ed and ver­i­fied by Sat­ur­day night.
More votes were expect­ed to be count­ed by Sun­day night.
Both can­di­dates sent out state­ments Sat­ur­day and not­ed the close race.
“We are still hard at work ensur­ing that every …