(Promoted due to final results coming in: Shumlin wins. – promoted by JulieWaters)
The results are in from all counties and the recount is officially over. Racine gained 19 votes in the recount and Shumlin gained 25.
See the Burlington Free Press for county breakdown.
Congratulations, Peter!
Per today’s Burlington Free Press:
Chittenden County Clerk Anne Williams said Thursday afternoon she expected to wrap up counting Friday morning, the third day of the recount. Chittenden County had the most Democratic primary ballots to recount: 20,173.
“It’s looking good,” Williams said as four teams of 12 volunteers each sorted and reviewed ballots at tables in the courthouse lobby and a nearby lounge.
Windsor County officials planned to continue counting into the evening Thursday in an effort to finish, releasing the results today.
In the meantime, we’ve seen solid, extended, and engaged party unity across the board with all five candidates participating in serious cross-campaigning. This would have happened with or without the recount, but it probably wouldn’t have happened with this amount of coordination over an extended period. The lone unity event scheduled the next day would have been good, but also obligatory. What’s happened since, involving all five candidates in a full-court press to support the eventual nominee?
That’s been fantastic.
Pre-recount#s
Bartlett -2
Dunne +1
Markowitz +7
Racine – 4
Shumlin +4
Looking at just the top-2:
Total votes: 36,374
Total variance: 65 votes
Net variance: 44 votes
Net change: 6 votes
Total delay: 17 days
Less than 2 votes/thousand total variance.
About 1 vote/thousand net variance
About 1 vote/six thousand net change.
This certainly seems to indicate only random errors were present initially. That both candidates went up isn’t surprising, since I think recounters are a bit more likely to try to interpret a confusing ballot rather than just call it spoiled.
The decision to go with using the tally machines definitely sped things up, probably by a factor of 3 once the recount got underway. In Grand Isle, we did 3 towns with the tabulator in the same time to totally hand recount one town. Thankfully, touch-screen machines never took hold in Vermont.