sentences:  With over 250,000 votes cast, the initial vote tally put Brock ahead by just 137 votes.Salmon requested a recount, and on December 21, 2006, he was declared the winner by a margin of 102 votes.This was one of the closest election victories in Vermont history, and the first time in the state's history that a statewide election's initially reported result was overturned by a recount.