From Richard Winger at Ballot Access News:
Tim Utz, the Constitution Party nominee for a Minnesota state legislative race, is paying $2,100 to have the votes recounted in his race, even though the original results show that he did not come close to winning. See this story. It is likely that Utz doesn’t really believe he might have won, but that he is testing the system. The recount may show that the original count was accurate, or conceivably it could show that it wasn’t accurate.