You can't. What happened is the bounty was auto-awarded, meaning they get half the points (and the other half of the points rae gone forever). You can start a new bounty and give it to the same post manually, but the minimum cost for bounties increases each time you use one for the same question up until it costs 500 points per bounty.

See also How does the bounty system work?

You can't. What happened is the bounty was auto-awarded, meaning they get half the points (and the other half of the points rae gone forever). You can start a new bounty and give it to the same post manually, but the minimum cost for bounties increases each time you use one for the same question up until it costs 500 points per bounty.

See also How does the bounty system work?

You can't. What happened is the bounty was auto-awarded, meaning they get half the points (and the other half of the points rae gone forever). You can start a new bounty and give it to the same post manually, but the minimum cost for bounties increases each time you use one for the same question up until it costs 500 points per bounty.

See also http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work

You can't. What happened is the bounty was auto-awarded, meaning they get half the points (and the other half of the points rae gone forever). You can start a new bounty and give it to the same post manually, but the minimum cost for bounties increases each time you use one for the same question up until it costs 500 points per bounty.

See also How does the bounty system work?