Yellowstone County Montana is doing a full recount!

[originalpckelly]

The SOS of Montana took down all the votes from them. Before they did, Tester had a 51% lead in a county which went to Bush in 2004 with a 61% lead! This is weird, I wonder why they had to do a recount?

This is a huge county! So it could really cause Burns or Tester to lose.

http://sos.mt.gov/ELB/archives/2006/elections/general/counties/Yellowstone/index.asp

[VolcanoJen]

1. Turning out the lights in Montana

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/8/32955/2606

From mcjoan:

The lights went back on in the ballroom and the media closed up shop. They've called a recount in Yellowstone Co. (Billings and environs). It's not clear what caused the recount--a local race, or this one, or what. They're not doing the recount until tomorrow morning, so we have to hang in there just a little longer.

[survivor999]

3. Who's watching the ballots?

[originalpckelly]

9. OK, that is fucked up...

this county could really swing this race! We have to wait until tomorrow!

[OzarkDem]

22. They won't give up control of the Senate easily

they're going to pull every dirty trick they can think of to keep their majority.

[survivor999]

2. I think Dem lawyers and observers

should go up there RIGHT AWAY!

[cynatnite]

7. I would bet they are already there n/t

[bobbie]

4. No idea if it's an automatically triggered recount?

Or if the BFEE is flying in suitcases of cash?

[survivor999]

8. Unlikely... Why only Yellowstone?

They had 43% reported... And the D ahead by a few % points.

[Zachstar]

5. What kind of recount?

Press a button and get a number on every voting box?

Will it take long?

This is exactly why everyone must vote. When things get down to the wire YOU may make the difference between victory or defeat.

[magellan]

6. What machines are they running there?

Holy shit, these bastards will stop at nothing. It's another Ohio '04 lockdown!

[Casablanca]

15. Paper ballots or optical scan readers.

http://www.sos.state.mt.us/ELB/Voting_Tech.asp

[badgerpup]

35. I'm in Billings...

We use paper ballots...none of this new-fangled voting machine nonsense for us, no sir!

No problems in my precinct, but the polling place is at a grade school in a lower middle class area.

Parents would raise six kinds of hell if the kids were involved in anything like that...they tend to take having kids rather seriously.

[GetTheRightVote]

10. This does not sound good to me either, lock downs lead to lies

in elections if history is to be any indication.

:kick:

[file83]

11. Those Yellowstone votes contain over 35,000 votes!!!

There is some fishy shit going on, because Burns wasn't even close to beating Tester in that county, it was Tester 18161 to Burns 16888. That's about a 5% lead!

[originalpckelly]

12. I know...

if it pops up with a weird lead for Burns, I will be suspicious.

I was focusing on that county during my earlier analysis.

[originalpckelly]

13. Here are the results from Yellowstone county from its own website:

This was from very early in the evening, but it might be useful later:
http://www.co.yellowstone.mt.gov/elections/results/RESULTS/DEFAULT.HTM

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. thanks just added to file

keeping it on a word file

[Tommymac]

18. Note the dates on some of the county web pages...

Some are 10/26/2006, 10/30/2006. And some are also showing partial precincts...weird ... the webmaster is slacking.

Gallatin for example...

http://sos.mt.gov/ELB/archives/2006/elections/general/counties/Gallatin/index.asp

Hill County ...

http://sos.mt.gov/ELB/archives/2006/elections/general/counties/Hill/index.asp

There are several others too...

Thanks for getting the screenies...

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. somebody has to

just didn't expet to be me

[Gwerlain]

14. Ummm, having had a look at Tester,

if I was a repuke looking for an election to tamper with, I'd go a helluvalong way out of my way not to pick his.

"I approved this haircut." No doubt.

[originalpckelly]

17. 2-4 hours until the recount is finished...

Hopefully, it comes out the way I have foreseen it.

I'm predicting:
49.74% For Tester
48.14% For Burns

[featherman]

19. Tester looks in pretty good shape judging from the counties that

are still recounting...Fergus and Meagher won't bring Burns enough. Yellowstone and Gallatin will be no worse than a split...maybe Tester edge.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. FYI folks if you go to media outlets fer your numbers

they have NOT zeroed the five counties... finally figured it out.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. SOS just updated

[Pachamama]

24. So I'm not losing my mind! I was watching the results last night, and suddenly it was 0% reporting

and I wondered if I was just really, really tired from the long day....

I hope that a lot of eyes in the DEM party are watching what is happening there....

[Pachamama]

25. I hope a lot of people cached the pages showing the results that had been posted previously

I don't know why, but this makes me very suspicious....what is going on....

[Danger Mouse]

26. this is a real nail-biter...

like i said before i went to bed last night...montana will decide it all...it'll be very close...razor thin now...come on, Tester...

[keopeli]

27. Yellowstone numbers are in. Tester still leads with one county remaining.

Yellowstone county, as you noted is very conservative and their total does favor Burns, but not enough to swing the election.

[yankeedem]

29. Yellowstone Cty Results 3.37a

Yellowstone County
Vote for 1

CONRAD BURNS (REP) . . . . . . . 15,347 50.57

STAN JONES (LIB) . . . . . . . . 702 2.31

JON TESTER (DEM) . . . . . . . . 14,212 46.83

WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 88 .29

The Libertarian may end up costing Conrad Burns the election. Works for me.

[rpannier]

28. Am I the only one who thinks Gov Schweitzer

needs to get the state police over there and in Meagher to make sure nothing illegal is going on?

[kerstin]

30. Hmm, nope. n/t

[Pab Sungenis]

31. What, you mean like 4,000 votes for Burns

in a county that only has 1,000 residents?

[hasssan1]

32. he is up as of now about 1700 votes

he is up as of now about 1700 votes, 91% in .I beleive he is going to win. Dems legal group should be ready.

[originalpckelly]

33. On their website my math gets up to a 3113 vote lead for Tester:

168121 - 165008 = 3113

[Lasher]

34. OK, send in some out of state goons to stop the count while we're ahead

GOP Thug Violence 2000: Miami 'Riot' Squad: Where Are They Now? (Jan. 24, 2005), Al Kamen



No. 1. Tom Pyle, who had worked for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), went private sector a few months later, getting a job as director of federal affairs for Koch Industries.

No. 2. Garry Malphrus, No. 2 in the photo, a former staff director of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice, is now deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.

No. 3. Rory Cooper, who was at the National Republican Congressional Committee, later worked at the White House Homeland Security Council and was seen last week working for the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

No. 4. Kevin Smith, a former GOP House aide later worked with Voter.com.

No. 5. Steven Brophy, a former GOP Senate aide and then at consulting firm KPMG.

No. 6. Matt Schlapp,a former House aide and then a Bush campaign aide, has risen to be White House political director.

No. 7. Roger Morse, another House aide, moved on to the law and lobbying firm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds. "I was also privileged to lead a team of Republicans to Florida to help in the recount fight," he told a legal trade magazine in a 2003 interview.

No. 8. Duane Gibson, an aide on the House Resources Committee, was a solo lobbyist and formerly with the Greenberg Traurig lobby operation. He is now with the Livingston Group as a consultant.

No. 9. Chuck Royal was and still is a legislative assistant to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a former House member.

No. 10. Layna McConkey Peltier, who had been a Senate and House aide and was at Steelman Health Strategies during the effort, is now at Capital Health Group.

http://www.bushwatch.com/

[exlrrp]

37. Very very VERY interesting!!

Thanks for posting this

[newyawker99]

41. Hi hassan1!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[IWantAChange]

36. DNC - please send in the suits to protect us in Virginia and Montana

you know that little sphincter Rove has his minions in there so get in there and fight.

[JeffSanchez]

38. Any word?

I wasn't expecting to wake up and find this bull.

[HappyWeasel]

39. OK....whose the sore loser now? We beat them by margins larger than they could cheat...ITS OVER!!

[Debi]

40. Okay, help this former Montana girl out

There is about a 1,200 margin (in favor of Burns) in Yellowstone Co. right now.

From the Gazette story it looks like only 3,000 absentee ballots are in question.

We know that Tester worked the early voter program hard.

Tell me how this could result in Burns taking the 1,700 vote lead that Tester has across the state?

And somebody from Bozeman, please tell me why Gallatin County didn't turn blue???? Eeek!

Thank you.

d.

[radiofreesrini]

42. cue the theme to Dukes of Hazzard

two words sweet Debi:

BOSS HOGG.


-rfs