I hate to bring a little reality to this nice entry, but the fact is:
1) the count changes *every* election, from the time election night totals are announced, to the time the final vote is totaled and verified.
There has never been a state election (and not in MN, for sure) where the final election totals have stayed the same as election night. This is especially true now that absentee and early voting has been so prevalent.
So this is not unusual. And usually the outcome is so well-defined no one notices.
2) In Norm Coleman’s last MN election his final vote total changed (to his favor, by the way) by much more than Franken’s vote total has thus far changed.
It wasn’t as notable because the election was so close, but the change is no more suspicious than it was in the last election.
3) Because of the tight spread, MN mandates a recount. It will be supervised by its Republican leadership, including Gov. Pawlenty.
To accuse the fine state of Minnesota, and their election officials, of illegal behavior is just dishonorable, IMO.
Has Coleman received a single vote on this recount?
finn1 Since Oct 7, 2008
Welcome to FreeRepublic, I've been reading some of your links....
Troll alert. You joined 10/07/08 just to post this garbage? I have read some of you comments and you should be zotted.
Thank you for the history lesson. Did any of the newly-found Coleman votes last time come from the trunk of a car? How many came from tiny villages? You may not see moral equivalence between random number changes and concentrated ones under suspicious circumstances, but we certainly don’t, and we can’t tell that you don’t from the way you write. That’s why your comments have met such suspicion; you seem to have no ability to read our sense of ethics, morality, and propriety, and our well-earned sensitivity to being cheated.
The reason we are suspicious is because we all know how Crooked and Corrupt Democrats are. The way the win elections is by Fraud and Cheating, acts Republicans Never practice. Everyone knows the Democrat Party is the party of Crooks and Cheaters.