Posted on 11/07/2006 5:04:31 PM PST by Dog
Please Mods can we have one central Live thread ...its tough jumping from thread to thread to get results.
What's your mindset?
Knox is in..
Corker has probably won, I agree, but he lost a lot in Davidson Co. and is only about 3600 votes ahead. I explained about this just above in another post.
I think there is a more valuable lesson to learn here.
There is no spoon... There is no "ours"
Good night, sleep well.
Where do you get see these numbers?
He really has little choice.
And, alas, there's an obvious (but not very humanitarian) solution in Iraq. Get out of the way, and like the Shiites massacre the Sunnis. That'll settle things down, and quick, too.
Glacier is now 100% in. So is Broadwater.
Maybe for 90 days, then he needs approval by congress.
Do you see Nancy and Dirty Harry giving it to him?
Is Burns gonna make it?
Yellowstone County includes Billings, the largest city in Montana. None of that county has been counted:
Software flub leads to county recount
Problems delay results elsewhere in the state
By ED KEMMICK
Of The Gazette Staff
Yellowstone County elections workers were expecting to work until 5 or 6 this morning after deciding after midnight Wednesday to recount every ballot cast in the county Tuesday.
County Election Administrator Duane Winslow said the fault was his. The county was using a new software program for its three electronic vote-counting machines this year, he said, and he neglected an important function in tabulating the absentee ballots.
Absentee ballots - and there were nearly 20,000 in Yellowstone County this year - are normally counted first, after which the regular ballots from the precincts are counted.
After the absentee ballots were counted, Winslow said, he was supposed to hit a "zero out" button on the voting machines, which basically cleans the slate before the regular ballots are counted. That was the step Winslow neglected to take on two of the machines. He said he thinks he hit the button on one of the machines.
"It's unfamiliar," he said. "It's just a mistake I made."
As a result, he said, some of the absentee ballots, perhaps as many as 3,000, may have been counted again when the regular ballots were being run through the machines. He decided about 12:40 a.m. to undertake a complete recount.
"I'd just rather make absolutely sure, especially with races this close," he said.
Winslow assembled what staff was left in the courthouse just before 1 a.m. and told them about his decision to conduct a recount. He said they would probably be there until 5 or 6 this morning. He also said that while the reason for this recount is new, the delayed count is not unprecedented. He remembered at least two previous occasions when votes were still being counted at dawn.
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/08/news/local/22-flub.txt
Be proud y'all defeated Ford!
We lost good people tonight: Santorum and likely George Allen.
You can't have it both ways. You were the one saying voting third-party was a perfectly justifiable way for Republicans to show displeasure with their party. Now you deny it has any effect. Gimme a break.
Well, that's very, very good news. The Knox Co. numbers aren't up on the SoS site yet, so I appreciate the information. It's a relief, to say the least.
That's very good news. It could explain why people were so surprised to see Burns down in the early numbers from Yellowstone.
So did the senate so your logic is off.
The senate and the house lost about the same percentage of races. The only thing that saved the Senate is that only 1/3 of the body was up for re-election and very few incumbent republicans.
I knew what you meant, and I agree.
It will be a blood bath there. No joke, "heads will roll."
I'm not too thrilled with the fact Montana is strongly approving the minimum wage hike.
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