Al Franken gets boost in Minn. Senate recount

[Mark E. Smith]

Source: Ap

ST. PAUL, Minn. Democrat Al Franken won a pair of victories Friday before the state board overseeing the Senate recount, including a decision that as many as 1,500 incorrectly rejected absentee ballots should be included.

The board also opted to recommend use of election night results in a Franken-leaning Minneapolis precinct where 133 ballots went missing, a decision that could have cost him 46 votes if it had gone the other way.



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[Divine Discontent]

1. wow... that REALLY pushes it towards Al based on getting ALL the votes counted!

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[rhett o rick]

2. What's the current difference and who's ahead? nm

[damntexdem]

3. And then Coleman's lawyers will keep the decision held up in court for as long as they can.

Although once the new Senate accepted the result, the courts would probably bounce any suits out.

[dflprincess]

4. He's already started:

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"The Coleman campaign is asking that the counting of rejected absentee ballots be halted until a standard procedure is established."

[wellstone dem]

5. It says a lot about Al and a lot about Norm that

neither know how the absentee ballots will affect the election, but Al wants them counted and Norm does not.

[dflprincess]

6. I think the general belief is that the absentees will favor Franken

I'm sure I heard that the absentees that have been counted were heavily Franken. Also, a good many absentee voters are elderly or disabled and those groups lean more toward the DFL.

However, no one can be sure that the uncounted ballots will follow those trends.

[Mister Ed]

7. Another reason people vote absentee is that they're out doing GOTV-type work on election day

And I think there were many more people inspired to get out and do that on the Dem side than on the GOP side this year. That's one more reason the absentee ballots might favor Franken.