"We're not going out of our way to exclude military ballots."
I was told there was a fuss about military ballots.
Democrats countered that Republicans set out to keep military ballots in the count even when they should have been thrown out.
A count of overseas military ballots later boosted his margin to about 900 votes.
One, were military ballots going to be properly counted?
Far more troubling were reports about military ballots.
The candidate himself took up the theme, calling on election officials to count more military ballots.
The largest group of disputed overseas ballots were military ballots.
What about military ballots that come in after the deadline?
"We're going to get those military ballots in, one way or the other," one Republican official said.