Olathe ? The Democratic candidate who fell short of unseating conservative incumbent Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook has dropped her request for a recount.

But the Johnson County Election Office went ahead and released the results anyway because the recount already had been completed when Vicki Hiatt withdrew her request. The recount shows the 952-vote margin of victory for Pilcher-Cook remains the same. Pilcher-Cook got 51.3 percent of the vote, to Hiatt’s 48.6 percent.

The only change is that each candidate received one additional vote from the paper ballots, which previously had been detected by the optical scanners as “blank votes.”

Hiatt had expressed concerns previously that election night technical issues may have affected results. Johnson County Election Commissioner Ronnie Metsker said in the statement that the results show his staff’s work was “accurate.”