When will it count? Cascade County's Nov. 7 election results still in limbo

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Instead, they only demand agencies "ensure adequate notice and assist public participation before a final agency action is taken that is of significant interest to the public.
52% : This year it was clumsy, but now we have a meeting that fully abides by the law for the canvass, that puts motions in place and it's structured.
51% : Sometime after 9 p.m. commissioners passed a motion to table a final vote to certify the election results until discrepancies between reports from the Cascade County Elections Office and the Secretary of State's Office could be resolved.
49% : "Commissioner Briggs made a motion to table until the Secretary of State's Office could be reached to conclude why those numbers were different.
48% : By state law, counties across Montana are required to certify and submit their election results no later than 14-days after the conclusion of an election.
47% : "Looking at (the Secretary of State's) report and comparing it to the tabulator machine results for the town of Belt and the town of Cascade - the numbers of ballots received did not match," explained Commissioner Rae Grulkowski.
47% : "The canvass is a process that ensures the number of ballots voted are the number of ballots counted, and that no ballots are missing or counted more than once," the Montana Secretary of State's Office explains.
47% : The canvass meeting was then postponed until Wednesday, Nov. 22 to meet open meeting law requirements - and has been postponed once again to resolve discrepancies between the Secretary of State's ballot count against those of the Cascade County Election Office.
36% : The impasse threatens to draw a rebuke from the Secretary of State's Office and has already focused more unwanted attention of dysfunction within the Cascade County Elections Office and tensions between Cascade County commissioners.
32% : After learning of the meeting's schedule, Briggs and Larson declared they would not attend the Monday meeting because it violated the law.

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