Recount Overturns Vermont Auditor Race (dem pickup

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Auditor-Recount.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

December 21, 2006
Recount Overturns Vermont Auditor Race
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 1:02 p.m. ET

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- A judge overturned the state auditor's election Thursday after a recount showed the Democratic challenger had actually beaten the Republican incumbent by 102 votes.

It was the first time in Vermont that a statewide election was overturned in a recount, the state archivist said.

Washington Superior Court Judge Mary Miles Teachout declared Democrat Thomas M. Salmon the winner over Auditor Randy Brock after reviewing the results of a hand recount conducted by county clerks after the November election.

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it turned out that some of his votes had been mistakenly attributed to Liberty Union candidate Jerry Levy on the first count.

..more at link...

Audit. Recount. Get it Right!

Vermont -> :yourock:

I and other Medicaid recipients have been suffering in part because of the Republican idiot's war on Medicaid, er "Medicaid fraud". As a consequence of his reign of terror I have been denied Medicaid transportation on the grounds I can use a bus (I can't even get as far as the end of the parking lot without assistance, and none of my medical providers think I can use a bus), and so am reduced to waiting till I can call 911 to get to an ER. I just today have gotten the replacement support socks I was measured for in *April* (my history includes emboli in both lungs and at least a half dozen instances of cellulitis). Prior to his attack on Medicaid, er fraud, both transportation and medical appliances were reviewed and approved promptly.

I loath that Repiglican and hope the Dem can point that office at real fraud for a change.

Was it valid mistake or intentional?