Posted on 11/07/2008 6:32:02 AM PST by steve-b
Just as Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was explaining to reporters the recount process in one of the narrowest elections in Minnesota history, an aide rushed in with news: Pine County's Partridge Township had revised its vote total upward -- another 100 votes for Democratic candidate Al Franken, putting him within .011 percentage points of Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman.
The reason for the change? Exhausted county officials had accidentally entered 24 for Franken instead of 124 when the county's final votes were tallied at 5:25 Wednesday morning.
"That's why we have recounts," Ritchie said, surveying the e-mail sent in from the county auditor. "Human error. People make mistakes."
The margin in the tightest Senate race in the country bounced like the stock market throughout the day, with the difference between Coleman and Franken dropping, then rising briefly to 590 votes before shooting down to a razor-thin 236 by day's end.
In a reversal of the previous day, when Coleman had declared victory and suggested that Franken should waive a recount, Coleman kept to himself on Thursday, while Franken called reporters to talk about the prospects for a continued narrowing of the count....
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Unknown-- but I can guess. LOT of union influence up there.
It boggles the mind that a bottom-feeding, classless turd like Franken could come this close to winning a senate seat.
What the hell is wrong with you people in MN?
Wow, looks like 50% of Minnesotans are just as dumb as the 52% that voted for Buttcrack Hussein.
The will continue to recount until Franken is ahead and then declare the counting to be over. It was Gore’s plan and only the Supreme Court could stop it.
I didn’t think this election could disgust me more. I was wrong.
Moonesota?
I guess he was smart enough and doggonit people like him but I guess he wasn’t good enough.
Dude (or Dudette)! You're from Illinois!
People in glass houses and all of that. Just because our loons tend to be loonier, and yours tend to be more crooked doesn't mean we should start calling names. ;-)
When I've looked at the red/blue voting maps, I've always thought the population centers sort of resembled pinPRICKS.
Well, yea, but our politicians have ALWAYS been morons ;)
He is deficient in a lot more ways than just vote tally. :)
“In 1948, Lydon B. Johnson did the same in Texas - finding “lost” ballots for the Senate race. He was then called Lying Johnson.”
Actually, regarding Lyndon Johnson’s “win,” I recall there being questions about dead people voting; and there was no recount because the ballots were burned in a warehouse fire. After that, he was called “Lucky Lyndon.”
Start looking for ballot boxes in Democrats’ car trunks...
Indeed!
For me, life is good. I drive an hour down to the Twin Cities, work in "San Francisco lite" and head home to relative normalcy at the end of the day.
They will find a bag of uncounted ballots.
I’m sure Franken can find a couple a hundred more votes. Did anyone look under the table in Duluth?
Wait till the democrats get ahold of the 2010 census. Blue state electoral votes will increase exponentially, and gone will be the media push to end the electoral college.
...hey, maybe they'll find more of the MacDougalds' Guaranty/Whitewater papers there, too!
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