Control of Senate Hangs on Results From One Montana County

[Starfury]

Apologies if this is a duplicate.

By Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA
November 08, 2006

UPDATE: Officials in the Montana Secretary of state's office were still awaiting results from Yellowstone County and several smaller counties that will determine the control of the U.S. Senate. In Yellowstone County, local officials failed to clear the totals on the county's ES&S M-650 central count tabulator before counting the ballots and were running a new count.

In addition results from Beaverhead, Broadwater, Meagher, and Glacier counties had not been reported. all these counties count paper ballots by hand and the process is stretching into the early hours of the morning.

With other Senate races across the country showing Democrats with 50 senate seats and Republicans 49, control of the Senate will be determined by the result of the contest between Republican incumbent Conrad Burns and Democratic challenger Jon Tester. Results currently show Tester with a lead of less than 5,000 votes

The situation reminds Montana residents of the 2004 election in which control of the State House remained in question on election night when one race ended in a tie that was resolved in a hand recount.

Details to follow.

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2014&Itemid=113

Didn't think it'd be this close, wow!
:woohoo:


Edit: Here's the link to Montana's SOS website: http://sos.mt.gov/ELB/archives/2006/elections/general/ussenate/index.asp

[rodeodance]

1. well..... this paper has counted Allen in the Dem side.

[still_one]

2. you mean Webb don't you?

[MGD]

3. Meanwhile, the MSM talks endlessly about Virginia.

Virginia is a non-story MSM people. Are you fucking stupid or what?

[Binka]

5. VA Is Done They Can't Admit That Dems Won The Senate

We will clinch it in MT. WOOT! The news is gonna be so much fun to watch today. Fox & Friends are gonna shit their pants. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[ShortnFiery]

11. Last night both Brit Hume and Bill Kristol looked like they were

conducting a dirge. It was so nice. :-)

[Triana]

16. That's what it looks to me like - the lamestream media just doesn't want to admit...

...we're taking the Senate too.

We'll see...

[Ian David]

12. Macaccawicz is going to jail, anyway. Who cares about Virgina? n/t

[krispos42]

4. Yellowstone County is where Billings is

Population 136,000, about as big as Bridgeport, CT or Sioux Falls, SD. If there's a liberal bastion in Montana, this is probably it.

[Starfury]

6. If I'm reading Yellowstone County election results correctly....

The Yellowstone County results have been retallied (unofficial), favoring Burns by about 1100 votes. If this was the big hurdle to cross, Tester should still win...

http://www.co.yellowstone.mt.gov/elections/results/RESULTS/DEFAULT.HTM

Oh, please, God....

[althecat]

7. I think that is the absentees... could be wrong though....

There is another 70,000 votes to count.

Hence the 0 Precincts reporting. Figure. Won't be till morning though.

[ShortnFiery]

9. What's going on in Montana?!?

The election officials first told the networks that they would be prepared to declare a victor by 3 AM. :wtf: happened in this state to delay this announcement?

[pnwmom]

14. If this is the liberal bastion, why did Burns carry it?

Looks a little odd to me.

[confludemocrat]

15. Billings is not a liberal bastion, that would be Missoula n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

8. They'll be calling this the YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO

Just wait. I give it until 9AM EST (it's about 6:30 now).

--p!

[ShortnFiery]

10. Let's hope and pray that the Montana election officials are honest souls?

:scared:

[Vinca]

13. I guess the good news is there aren't lots of votes to recount.

I'm confident.

[Phredicles]

17. As of 7 AM (Pacific), the Montana site has Tester up by 3,113 votes

Not as good as last night, but I'd certainly take it.