Burns refuses to concede, wants more ballots counted

Missoulian State Bureau ^ | November 08 2006 | CHARLES S. JOHNSON and JENNIFER McKEE,

[MeanWestTexan]

Military ballots not counted.

[Elpasser]

Burns should follow the Dems' playbook: keep counting the ballots until you win!

[mbraynard]

Special thanks to the Libertarians there - dyfunctional and destructive as ever.

[george76]

" Military ballots not counted."

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Oh those !


The DUmmies do not want these counted.

[Jrabbit]

How special....actually counting the military ballots.

[NonValueAdded]

wants more ballots counted ??? "Uh, I'd like them all counted, please."

[lesser_satan]

Have the other 20,000+ absentee ballots been counted yet? If not, it ain't over.

[george76]

She must be a democrat...

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wants more ballots counted ???

"Uh, I'd like them all counted, please."

[twntaipan]

Where are the dhimmicrats' cries of "Count All the Votes"?

[RonF]

How many Montanans are in the military? More than 3000?

[CindyDawg]

Good for him. They should all hold off and insist the ballots be checked IMO. The Dems can scream sore loser to the hills, all they want. I"m not saying republicans didn"t lose but something smells.

[AmishDude]

In theory most military ballots should have been counted, they're just accepting later ones.

[george76]

Brad Johnson, Montana's secretary of state, which oversees elections in Montana...

Those figures show Tester with a slim 2,848 vote lead over Burns...

Montana law allows for voter re-counts in certain situations.

In this case, the state itself would have launched and paid for a re-count if the margin between Tester and Burns fell below about 1,000 votes.

Burns could have petitioned for a recount and potentially paid the cost of it if the margin between the two fell below about 2,000 votes, Johnson said.

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/11/08/helena/000aamargine.txt

[george76]

" How many Montanans are in the military? More than 3000?"

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I do not know. ( not from Montana )

[A CA Guy]

- Stan Jones, Libertarian, 10,324 votes for 2.6 percent.

Great example of retardation where throwing away the vote to a third party gets you the fire breathing communist Democrat.

[CindyDawg]

Once upon a time you knew by daybreak who won. I'm so tired of this. Election day/April 15. 2 days in a year I dread.

[george76]

Like voting for Perot to punish Bush 41..then we got Clinton.

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[A CA Guy]

Like voting for Perot to punish Bush 41..then we got Clinton.

Which was mentioned by me for months here to all the third party types.

[retMD]

How many Montanans are in the military? More than 3000?

From the linked article; "As of September, state records showed just 14 members of the Montana Air and Army National Guard deployed overseas.

It was unclear at press time how many Montanans who enlisted in the regular armed services might have cast ballots and if they would cast their ballots in Montana or another state."

Montana's population is relatively small.