| Quick e-mail from the Shumlin campaign, signed by all five candidates (I'm assuming this went out to the other campaigns as well) indicating that if you want to volunteer for the recount, you can do so via this link. It asks basic information (including who you supported in the primary to get a balanced recount team) and your district, etc.
The recount officially starts September 8th, so time is of the essence.
Per the e-mail:
Judge Crawford has informed us that the primary election recount will begin on Wednesday, September 8th. We need your help to make this process go as quickly as possible. The judge has asked that we submit a list of volunteers by Friday morning (September 3rd). We will need 40 volunteers from each county to complete the recount.
Each county clerk will oversee a recount team, who will be responsible for counting all of the ballots in that county. Normally, each candidate would recruit their own volunteers in each county, but in order to make this process happen as quickly as possible, all five of us have agreed to put out the call generally and nominate the volunteers together.
The more volunteers we can recruit in each county, the faster the recount can be completed. Please help if you can, especially if you have experience with elections or if you are on the Board of Civil Authority. Once we have a list of volunteers, we will submit them to Judge Crawford, so the process can begin on time. If you know people who might be interested in volunteering, please forward this email to them.
This is urgent folks: those of us who are concerned about how long a recount will take should be the first to sign up, if at all possible.
Information not yet known: are you able to volunteer for a single day or do you have to volunteer for the entire recount? Is there a screening process?
Regardless, please volunteer if you can. The sooner we can get this completed, the sooner we can get to the work of taking Dubie down come November. |
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