"This gets to be like a giant mosh pit. People yell [and] raise their hands."
--Democratic political consultant Michael Goldman on the process of recounting votes in the contested Torikildsen-Tierney Massachusetts Congressional race. More than 60 election officials, lawyers, congressional staffers and reporters crowded into Memorial City Hall to watch the beginning of the recount.
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