The Recount

By Anthony Richards

At 2:14 a.m. on Election Night, veteran Douglas County election judge Tammy Avila finds a sealed ballot case on a bottom shelf in the basement of the election building. The seal is real. The county stamp is real. And according to every log in the building, the case doesn't exist.

Tammy does what she has done for twelve years. She writes it up by the book.

By morning, the sheriff has carried the box away, and it never reaches his evidence room. By nightfall, her partner judge has vanished, leaving his truck in a creek bed with blood on the seat. And by the end of the week, with the governor's race separated by just 212 votes, Tammy's face is on every screen in Colorado. Half the state calls her a hero. The other half calls her a liar. Neither side has asked what she actually saw.

Now someone is rewriting the records she trusted, her own badge is opening doors in the middle of the night, and the only proof of what really happened is sitting inside a box that powerful people will do anything to keep closed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN3HGM41
• ISBN13: 9798162563440
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"