Both candidates in the state Senate District 43 recount picked up votes Wednesday but the outcome in Cleveland County did not change.

State Sen. Jim Reynolds, the incumbent, received 6,467 votes in Cleveland County and challenger David Boren received 4,540. At the polls Nov. 4, Reynolds received 6,445 and Boren received 4,519.

Election Board secretary Paula Roberts said the additional votes came from workers counting some marks that the optical scanners do not count.

“When people do the recount, they tend to count more votes because the scanners don’t pick up everything,” she said.

The recount involves nine Cleveland County precincts and about 20 precincts in Oklahoma County.

Oklahoma County election board officials said they “were still working” on the recount.

“It could be as late as Friday before we're finished,” one staff member said.

Boren, the Democratic candidate, requested the recount. Both candidates have alleged irregularities in the process.

In Cleveland County, there are nine precincts and one absentee box being recounted. The last recount in Cleveland County was a city council race in 1992.

Sixteen workers recounted the Cleveland County ballots Wednesday. Since the election, the ballots have been sealed inside a truck locked in the sheriff’s department parking lot.