Franken Gains on Coleman Again on Day 2 of U.S. Senate Race Hand Count in MN - BradBlog

[WillyT]

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With just over 40% of the ballots in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, the gap has now shrunk to just 129 votes at the end of the second day of counting.

According to tonight's update of the MN Secretary of State's "recount" webpage, Coleman has so far lost a total of 212 votes and Franken has lost 126 during the counting. The net gain is 86 votes for Franken out of the original 215 vote advantage certified by the state for Coleman before counting began yesterday.

The original numbers were based on the tabulations reported by the state's faulty ES&S and Diebold optical-scanners. But today's numbers may be equally misleading, for the moment, as there are some 360 ballots so far challenged by Coleman, and 374 by Franken, which will be judged later by the canvassing board. Those numbers are not included in today's totals.

And...

In summary:

AS OF DAY 1
Coleman lost 70
Franken lost 27
Net gain: +43 for Franken
Gap (as based on original, machine-tallied results): 172 for Coleman

AS OF DAY 2
Coleman Lost 212
Franken Lost 126
Net gain: +86 Franken
Gap (as based on original, machine-tallied results): 129 for Coleman

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Link: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6686

Go AL !!!

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[rockymountaindem]

1. I don't understand why they are losing votes

Aren't they looking for "undervotes" instead of throwing out votes that had already been counted?

[Renegade08]

7. It's because challenged ballots are deducted from the total.

[Divine Discontent]

2. ugh - if these numbers hold up and keep falling at the rate they are

it will be a NAIL BITER..............

I think just guessing off hand that it would compute out to a win by Coleman of less than 20 votes! PLEASE NUMBERS, SWAY TO FRANKEN A BIT MORE!!!!


Many different Yes We Did items in the Obama/Biden section www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[Tribetime]

3. this is going to be close as hell

[Blackhatjack]

4. Looks like it could come down to the absentee ballots which were initially excluded...

Those ballots probably would be easy to tally, but were excluded because there were questions as to their residency or some other technical issue.

Franken got a court order issued for the board of election to turn over documentation as to why they have been excluded. THis might give him a chance to present evidence why they should be included, and the intent of the voter on those ballots most likely would not be in question.

[Colobo]

5. I want Bill O'Reilly to say "Sen. Franken"

[WillyT]

6. LOL !!! - And Rush Limpballs Too !!!

Al Franken is a big fat SENATOR, LOL !!!

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