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Posted on 11/08/2006 3:01:35 PM PST by george76
Defeated U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., refused to concede Wednesday saying there remain votes yet to be counted in his tight race against the declared winner, Democrat Jon Tester.
Burns, who has not commented to reporters on the race since the votes were counted Tuesday night, released a statement at 1:47 p.m.
“Jon Tester ran a good race and has the lead right now, but it is extremely close,” Burns said. “The state of Montana has a process in place, and it is our obligation to see it through. There are still votes out there that deserve to be counted.
“I believe we need to continue to let that process play itself out, and there is no need to rush to a conclusion when votes are this close.”
As of mid-afternoon Wednesday, the unofficial vote count showed Tester with a 2,847-vote lead, with all 867 precincts reporting. Here were the totals:
- Tester, 198,302 votes, for 49.1 percent.
- Burns, 195,455 votes for 48.4 percent.
- Stan Jones, Libertarian, 10,324 votes for 2.6 percent.
Only two kinds of ballots had yet to be counted Wednesday afternoon, said Bowen Greenwood, a spokesman for Secretary of State Brad Johnson.
People who went to the polls Tuesday, but forgot to bring some kind of identification, were able to cast provisional ballots.
Those ballots will only be counted if the voter returns today with proper identification by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Greenwood estimated that about 1,000 provisional ballots were cast Tuesday.
Also, the office will continue to count ballots coming in from Montanans serving in the military overseas for a few days after the election.
Greenwood said it was impossible to know how many of those may come in.
(Excerpt) Read more at missoulian.com ...
"Military ballots not counted."
The late arriving ones. Who knows what percentage of the total military vote that is.
With the House and Senate being Democrat going into 2008, it actually gets harder for a Democrat to win the Presidency.
That being said, we need to get some quality people going on our side.
McCain is a joke.
Still awfully hard to make up the defecit with those numbers. Who knows what percentage of the soldiers voted period and of those how many either voted in other states or get their ballots in on time. And some of them (say 30%) would be Dem. And I doubt the provisionals break for either side by much of a margin.
I guess that this is in the pre-recount phase still,
I wondered about that too.
I happen to agree with the fact that the Republicans should look for ways to include Libertarian and Constitution Party voters. But that can only go so far when 10,000 voters will vote for a complete fraud.
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" agree with the fact that the Republicans should look for ways to include Libertarian and Constitution Party voters.
But that can only go so far when 10,000 voters will vote for a complete fraud."
Ditto :
" Don't stop fighting until you're dead, or you win.
No quarter! "
Democrats even here on FR !!
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=164;results=2
Wow, almost 10%! They have lost their way...to DU!
Republican 84.9%
Democrat 9.6%
Yes, I was looking at the composite opinion.
Non-Member Opinion :
Republican 70.6%
Democrat 14.9%
Mixed 6.3%
Staying home 4.8%
Third Party 3.4%
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Wonderful post, bet that took you forever to put together!!
Lol.
Thanks!
I stuck it together with frosting!
Cream Cheese Frosting!
CNN was just spouting about how important it is to appear nice and just give in, rather than hold out for months and refuse to concede and maybe bring it to the Supreme Court...
:)
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