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John Tierney: “It was a 360 vote margin. At the end of the election we had a recount and I won by 371 votes, which in that case was…”

On the recordJuly 29, 1997
It was a 360 vote margin. At the end of the election we had a recount and I won by 371 votes, which in that case was significant enough that a recount could not change that. Yet Loretta Sanchez' was so much larger than that.
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John Tierney
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the significance of vote margins in an election recount.

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