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Recount is in Order
(by Morgan W. Brown Montpelier - September 01, 2010)
Recount is in Order
Editor:
Considering everything at stake, I fully support Doug Racine's decision to request a recount of the Vermont Democratic gubernatorial primary election.
Some rank and file Democrats and also others who voted in the election as well, including some supporters of Peter Shumlin, had stated online that a recount should be done when final unofficial results had not yet been called by the press.
They stated their opinions that it was indeed crucial to make sure all votes were properly counted and accounted for so there would be no doubts of whom got the most votes and is rightly the Democratic nominee.
The fact is the race was way too close, especially knowing how easy it is for things to go wrong during the initial vote counting process in a statewide race, which the state auditors race from several years ago helped to illustrate, when one candidate seemed to win and on a recount, another of the candidates was found to have actually received the most votes and was duly elected.
In addition, since this was a primary election with a lower total of voters, it will not take as long as the aforementioned recount did, so this cannot be an excuse not to do so.
This election is far too important to allow any doubts or questions to linger over it, which would be the case if an official recount was not performed.
Morgan W. Brown
Montpelier
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