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Salmon picks up votes as clerks complete vote recounts [VT Auditor]
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Dec 11, 2006 10:16pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Dec 11, 2006 10:15pm |
| Description | With a recount still under way, Democrat Thomas M. Salmon has picked up more than enough votes to overturn his razor-thin Nov. 7 loss to incumbent Auditor Randy Brock, according to unofficial ballot totals obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
Thousands of votes _ including those in three of Vermont's most populous counties _ remained uncounted in the week-old recount, which won't be finished until all of the approximately 250,000 ballots cast in the race are counted again and a Superior Court judge certifies the results.
But the trend is unmistakably in favor of Salmon, who lost by 137 votes on Election Day, according to county clerks polled Monday by the AP.
Salmon and Brock both were picking up votes as counties finished their work and tallied the results. But it was Salmon who was picking up the most, enough to overcome the 137-vote deficit that the secretary of state's office reported after towns reported their official results a week after the election. |
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