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VT Auditor recount under way
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Dec 10, 2006 09:22pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Dec 05, 2006 09:00pm |
| Description | In these days of touch-screen voting and election results downloaded to BlackBerrys within seconds of becoming official, democracy advanced Monday afternoon at the Windham County Courthouse, one paper ballot at a time.
The first statewide recount in 26 years got under way in Vermont's 12 county courthouses Monday morning.
Rockingham Selectboard member Tom Salmon, who is vying for the office of Auditor of Accounts, called for the recount after official results gave his main opponent, incumbent Republican Randy Brock, the win by a mere 137 votes.
In order to overcome Brock, Salmon would have to pick up only 69 votes from among the 250,717 cast in the Nov. 7 election.
The official results gave Brock 111,486 votes to Salmon's 111,349, a difference of just more than one-tenth of a percentage point.
Martha Abbott, the Progressive candidate won 23,454 votes while the Liberty Union candidate, Jerry Levy, received 4,229. |
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