The ballots were thrown out because they lacked the county clerk’s signature or one or both sets of initials from election judges. Indiana law requires absentee ballots to be initialed by both a Republican and a Democratic election judge and include the signature and the seal of the county clerk.

Following the commission’s decision, Deery took to social media to call the recount an effort to “undermine the will of voters” and said it was politically motivated.

“This was not a meeting intended to find fairness; it was designed to find votes,” Deery said. “Indiana law makes clear that valid votes should not be silenced simply because of minor errors made by clerks — clerks who were supposed to be trained by the chairman of this very commission.”

Deery said he plans to appeal the recount commission’s decision in the Indiana Court of Appeals.

In challenging the initial primary results, Copenhaver claimed to have identified roughly a dozen people who identified themselves as Democrats or “progressives” on social media and voted in the May 5 Republican primary. During the recount process, Copenhaver requested subpoenas for testimony and documents from Tippecanoe County election officials about the processing of absentee ballots after the primary that added to Deery’s total. Additionally, she asked for access to the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, program to verify the citizenship status of voters. Both of those requests were denied by the recount commission.

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The revised results on Monday make Deery the seventh of eight Republicans to fall to Trump-backed challengers in the Indiana primaries.

The Washington Examiner reached out to Copenhaver for comment.