But the numbers in the posted article and on the MN SOS elections website, shows Coleman with a 687 vote lead over Franken. Where is the difference of 192 votes coming from? Why isn’t it 687? Just curious!!!
The SOS site includes NO RESULTS from the disputed precinct with the 133 “mystery missing” ballots. There is no question that the ballots that are there and for which there is no question, heavily favor Franken, which brings the Coleman lead down into the range of 192, if you use the old election night count. If you don’t count the missing ballots, that would up coleman’s lead to about 238, pending looking at the challendged ballots. And remember, every challenged ballot is NOT included in the SOS count. So a franken challenge to a valid Coleman ballot will ultimately result in a gain of 1 for Coleman — and vice-versa. It really comes down to the quality of the challenges. If they are all phony, Coleman wins — if more of Franken’s are good challenges, he could win.