Mayoral race ballot recount favors challenger

The city of Hamtramck seems to have a new mayor. The announcement coming after an hours-long vote recount. Muath Mahmoud challenged the results of the 2025 Hamtramck mayoral election results. Initially, Adam Al-Harbi had won. However, officials say 37 ballots were found in the city clerk's office in the following days. A Wayne County Circuit judge said there needed to be a recount. Today, that recount going in Mahmoud's favor. And I'm very happy this is what happened and thanks to the community and I think it's all my supporters, all the judges who made the right decision and all the canvassers there who did work hard for the last four or five hours. So it's a win of our democracy. You all saw that they were open ballots. One after another, they were open ballots and that's why our previous clerk could not vouch for those ballots because they were found open the day after the elections. There were unauthorized individuals, which she admitted at that time that there were unauthorized individuals in the city clerk's office. So I think this is not over yet. Adam Al-Harbi says there's a few legal proceedings they're pursuing against Mahmoud surrounding his residency.