Fairfax county has just posted 30K absentee votes!

[Virginian]

Provisional should be posted soon.

16,464 for Webb
10,439 Allen

on edit:
30K Absentee ballots were mailed out but not necessarily returned with votes.

Second edit:
I take that back. It looks like those were the number actually voted.

[displacedtexan]

1. Excellent news!

[Iwasthere]

11. So 6000 plus 8000 that makes...

over 1/2 percent right. He would have to foot the bill for a recount?

[LostinVA]

17. As of now, no -- it's still with auto recount

[Virginia Dare]

2. BUH BYE FELIX MACACA HEAD!!!!!!!!!

:bounce: :toast: :beer: :kick: :woohoo:

[Mr_Spock]

3. really?

This is big news!!

[Maven]

4. Wow. Are you getting this from VA website?

I haven't been paying attention to the individual tallies by county.

[OKIsItJustMe]

9. Watch here

http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/nov2006/d_02.htm

[Marnieworld]

5. please no recount

please please pretty please

[txindy]

8. Oh, heck, let them recount. Let THEM say the machine results can't be trusted.

We'll still win and the machines will be history.

[PermanentRevolution]

6. WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!

Keep 'em coming! Allen won't have a choice but to concede!

[LostinVA]

19. He won't concede

He'll pay for the recount. If it was over 1%, he'd go to court. He's a sociopath, a megalomaniac, and a bully.

[KayLaw]

7. OMG!

Please, dear God, don't let them steal this.

[mom cat]

10. That should put it beyond the recall margin! K&R

[KKKarl is an idiot]

12. This is awesome

It says a lot about what the troops are thinking about the war.

[Virginian]

13. Something is strange in the totals.

Webb was winning before, now, the county totals show Allen in the lead?????

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/eb/webreports/RESU0607_AUTO.pdf

[zbdent]

26. That PDF says

226 of 225 precincts counted???

Sounds like Bush's calculator works about as well as his speech ...

[Virginian]

27. It's been fixed. Webb 201,906 / Felix 137,222 n/t

[BootinUp]

14. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! down goes Macaca!!!

:bounce:

[ChiciB1]

15. If Webb Does Win Does It Mean An Automatic Recount, It It's Close?? n/t

[dubykc]

20. From what I understand a state funded recount will be

conducted IF the losing candidate requests one AND the vote margin is less than 1%.

[LostinVA]

22. No, less than .5%

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

31. dubykc has it right, I think.

As I understand it from other posts:

Let x = difference between majority and minority candidates.

0.0% < x < 0.5% -- Minority candidate can request a recount. Recount is funded by public (i.e. taxpayer's) money.

0.5% < x < 1.0% -- Minority candidate can request a recount. If the recount still rules in favour of the majority candidate, the minority candidate must pay the expenses.

So if the final vote shows Webb more than half a percentage point ahead, a recount would require Allen to bet not only his job, but also a significant amount of money.


Edit: My bad, I didn't read the above posts properly. Yes, a STATE-FUNDED recount would require a margin of 0.5% or smaller. But I think a 1.0% recount would also be payed for by the state *if* it ended up handing the race to Allen.

[LostinVA]

16. Yup, and the provo votes are from heavy-Dem areas!!!!!

[PermanentRevolution]

18. What about other counties?

[msongs]

21. 7014 vote lead with -4- precincts left unreported nt

[cnlst8]

23. it's reported that there are about only 5000 vote total in those precincts

Although 3 of the 4 precinct favor Allen, there won't be enough.
If they decide to count the Webb 6000+ vote lead in absentee ballots as well as Webb lead in provisional ballot, this race is over.

[LostinVA]

28. Very, very small population precincts

Some are literally villages.

[Cha]

24. buzzflash has it exactly right!

Read their top headline~

http://www.buzzflash.com/

[Hav]

29. .

Damn right!
The people voted, get over it!

[Virginian]

25. The totals are being posted and typos have been made.

PRECINCT------REG.VOTERS /Machine * /VOTES % //ALLEN /WEBB /PARKER
301 CHAIN BRIDGE 3,423 /1,800 322 /2,122 62.0 // 765 /1024 /11
311 LANGLEY 2,172 /21,487 236 /21,723 10,439.0 //16464 /231 /4792


Bold is Percentage. Look at precinct 311 which was obviously miskeyed.

* Absentee votes mailed out but not necessarily returned with votes.

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/eb/webreports/RESU0607_AUTO.pdf

[EndElectoral]

30. Last 3 precincts lean towards Allen precincts, but won't be enough.!!!!