Comments on: Coleman Wins Recount, Too, But Race Not Over

By: Bithead

Bithead — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:34:54 +0000

He lost the first count, and the second, but somehow is shrewdly convincing people that the election was stolen from him?

Well, be mindful of whom it is he's convincing.

By: Gustopher

Gustopher — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:39:09 +0000

Let's see, if there are still the issue of the precinct with 133 missing ballots to be decided, and five or six thousand challenged ballots, then Coleman hasn't really won the recount yet, has he?

By: Tano

Tano — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:55:23 +0000

markm,

What is farcical is your attempt to explain a situation that you do not understand.

The 792 lead is based on NO votes from the disputed precinct being counted - i.e. they have simply not counted that precinct at all until the dispute over the 133 missing ballots is resolved.

Setting aside the 133, Franken leads in that precinct amongst all the other undisputed votes. Thus the margin will shrink down to the <200 range irrespective of what happens with the 133 - once that precinct is counted.

The 6K+ challanged ballots will obviously break one way or the other. The Franken campaign's best guess (self-interested no doubt) is that they will win enough of the challanges to close the gap and leave them 4 up.

It is certainly a plausible outcome. And no candidate in their right mind would concede the election before those challenges were examined.

By: markm

markm — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:09:56 +0000

Norm Coleman leads Democrat Al Franken by 192 votes

According the the Minneesoter Secretary of State Coleman leads by 792 votes. Give all the 133 "missing" ballot votes to Franken, re-run the numbers through the State abacus and call Coleman the winner by 659 votes (+/-10% for a safety factor)and be done with it. What a farce.

By: MichaelB

MichaelB — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:59:09 +0000

He lost the first count, and the second, but somehow is shrewdly convincing people that the election was stolen from him?

Either he is only convincing a very small number of people, or Minnesota has a disproportionate number of innumerate citizens.