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If the article is correct, Burns is toast. There is no way to sugar coat it. 1000 provisional ballots and an unknown number of late-arriving military ballots simply isn't enough.""

A few errors here IMO:
1. You are believing the media, who never seems to support a Republican.

2. ALL BALLOTS deserve to be counted. If you are an absentee voter due to your job, etc, how does it make you feel when "your ballots are not counted"??? Provisional ballots due to address changes, etc, also deserve to be counted.

3. Not counting the military ballots is a severe slap in the face of the men and women who are volunteers in the armed forces, and are placing themselves in harm's way so that YOU can vote, but then they are denied the counting of their votes? SHAME!!!

Burns may still lose, but ALL the ballots need to be counted. When you dismiss any ballots, you set yourself up to dismiss all ballots, IMO.

The rules of the road are that your ballot shall be counted. It is a rule--not just a SUGGESTION.

A few errors here IMO:
1. You are believing the media, who never seems to support a Republican.

That's why I said IF the article is correct - I have no independent way of knowing. But there is no evidence that the Missoulian would lie about something that can be easily verified, like this. If it weren't true, you'd think that the Burns camp would be screaming up and down instead of conceding.

2. ALL BALLOTS deserve to be counted. If you are an absentee voter due to your job, etc, how does it make you feel when "your ballots are not counted"??? Provisional ballots due to address changes, etc, also deserve to be counted.

3. Not counting the military ballots is a severe slap in the face of the men and women who are volunteers in the armed forces, and are placing themselves in harm's way so that YOU can vote, but then they are denied the counting of their votes? SHAME!!!

As far as I know, all ballots WILL be counted in Montana. The remaining outstanding ballots simply won't change the outcome in the Senate race. There likely aren't enough of them. They may or may not matter in other races on the ballots - but the votes should be counted, regardless. I never said that they shouldn't be. And any military votes that arrived before the deadline would have been counted with the other absentees.