Considering everything at stake, it is my hope that Doug Racine and his campaign gives serious consideration to requesting a recount as concerns 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 candidates had been found to have actually received the most votes and had been 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 had, 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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made edit to change word ‘many’ to the word ‘some’ in two different instances within first sentence of second paragraph in order to better reflect my recollection of those comments I had remembered coming across.
should have also mentioned this was a draft of a letter to the editor I wrote and submitted to various Vermont newspapers, which is why it was framed as it was and also did not include links, etc.