Recount Likely to Determine Nebraska Board Seat

By John Gehring

For the first time anyone in Nebraska can remember, elections for the state school board likely will come down to a recount to decide one winner's seat. Elections 2002

The tightly contested seat involves one of two incumbent members who last summer led a failed effort to include challenges to the theory of evolution in teaching about human origins. Two other incumbents held on to their seats.

When the ballots were counted for a seat representing the western part of the state, Kandy Imes, a 10-year local school board veteran, had 124 votes more than Kathy Wilmot, an eight-year member of the Nebraska...