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Counting all the votes, twice

By David Donnelly
Created Feb 2 2006 - 8:28am

In the race for Majority Leader, early signs are that the Republicans are taking balloting seriously:

House Republicans are taking a mulligan on the first ballot for Majority Leader. The first count showed more votes cast than Republicans present at the Conference meeting.

(via Roll Call [1])

That's the ticket -- finally the GOP agrees they should count all the votes. Any paper ballots?

UPDATE: Roy Temple of FiredUp! America [2] adds:

This discrepancy can be accounted for quite simply. A number of people had taken so much money from both Blunt and Boehner that they felt obligated to cast a ballot for each of their financial patrons.

A colleague wonders if they had Katherine Harris counting the votes.


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