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Vt. primary recount a love fest
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Aug 31, 2010 11:19pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Aug 31, 2010 11:00pm |
| Description | This isn't Florida in 2000, with chads hanging and people threatening to riot outside. No, call it a kinder, gentler recount.
The second-place finisher in Vermont's Democratic gubernatorial primary last week, state Sen. Doug Racine, is supporting the first-place finisher and urging him to get his fall campaign under way.
The first-place finisher, Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin, says he has no problem with Racine calling for a recount of the results, which showed Shumlin winning by 197 votes out of nearly 75,000 cast.
"We're going to do this Vermont-style," Shumlin said Tuesday.
Secretary of State Deb Markowitz joined representatives of Vermont's major political parties in signing the certification documents to make the primary results official but the numbers won't be truly final until a judge's order after the recount. That likely won't begin until Sept. 8 and could stretch into the following week, said Claire Mee, clerk of the Washington County Superior Court. |
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