Virginia & Montana: We had better have lots of lawyers on hand

[Roxy66]

It looks to me like the Repugs are trying to put the fix on the counts in those states. We all know they will do anything to keep power....we better not let our guard down!

[KittyWampus]

1. You are absolutely right. The Media would have called this for Dems long ago

[jaxhud]

Virginia's election results site is just now starting to update for Provisional Ballots

40 Outstanding precincts have been added, in the various localities, to represent the conditional ballots.

http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/nov2006/l_02.htm

[jaxhud]

2. Virginia's election results site is just now starting to update for Provisional Ballots

140 Outstanding precincts, or so, have been added, in the various localities, to represent the conditional ballots.

http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/nov2006/l_02.htm

[FSogol]

3. Where did you get that from, or is it an assumption? n/t

[jaxhud]

5. The data is on the Virginia Election Results website.

"Conditional Ballot" Precincts were just created in most of the localities and vote counts are starting to come in. They're very small numbers so far. I doubt it will make any appreciable difference in the final count.

http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/nov2006/l_02.htm

(If you click on "details" for a Locality, then click on "View Results by Precinct" under the Senate race, you'll see the newly created "conditional ballot" precinct, and the associated vote count)

[FSogol]

8. Thanks. n/t

[0rganism]

4. given the antics of the last few years, I would be surprised if we didn't

In fact, I imagine both states will bear an uncanny resemblance to national conventions of the ABA before the day is out.

[featherman]

6. Good to keep an eagle eye but....nah...we've got both of these. They can do

essentially nothing. Don't forget both Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 had Republican administrations that abetted the theft. Both of these state have DEM Governors who will not turn a blind eye to those shenanigans in these cases. Enjoy our victory.

[maddezmom]

7. looks like Montana is safe...more $ for VA

Secretary of State: Burns can’t ask for recount; margin of victory too large
Edited on Wed Nov-08-06 03:36 PM by maddezmom
By JENNIFER McKEE IR State Bureau
HELENA - Montana's top electioneer said Wednesday morning that barring a ''dramatic change'' Democrat Jon Tester is the winner of the hotly contested U.S. Senate race and Republican Sen. Conrad Burns does not have the footing to ask for a re-count.

Brad Johnson, Montana's secretary of state, which oversees elections in Montana, said Wednesday morning that election results reported by the Associated Press and this newspaper are generally tracking with his official results.

Those figures show Tester with a slim 2,848 vote lead over Burns, with all 867 voter precincts reporting.

Montana law allows for voter re-counts in certain situations. In this case, the state itself would have launched n and paid for n a re-count if the margin between Tester and Burns fell below about 1,000 votes. Burns could have petitioned for a recount n and potentially paid the cost of it n if the margin between the two fell below about 2,000 votes, Johnson said.

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