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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They need to document every adjustment and then use statistical analysis to determine if these are truly “random” human errors.
be sure that Al Franken is already spreading fuel in the room if the recount is in his favour. :-)
He ishas slight appearance problem.:-)
It’s always so amazing when Dems run a “recount” that no new votes are ever found for the Republican.
They're idiotic, uninformed, incompetent, celebrity-worshiping bumpkins.
I should know... I'm surrounded by the same kind of worthless simpletons in my home state of PA.
Screw 'em. I'm moving to Texas.
The man is a comedian for gods sake, with the next 4 years of Obama we are gonna need all the laughs we can get.
We are already in the hole, let them go all the way and embarrass themselves further. What’s the difference now.
Can he possibly do worse than Nancy Pelosi?????
I THINK NOT!
According to LBJ's biography by his brother, the ncikname was "Landslide Lyndon".
The Lyndon Johnson 1948 “win” story is found at
From that source, we have ...
“She may never get her wish; according to one longtime observer of Alice politics, the search for Box 13 is certain to be fruitless. “The ballots were burned that night in the Ranch Motel, and the tally sheet was taken across the border by some of George Parr’s men,” the source claims. “Box 13 was probably burned along with everything else.” And how did the source come by this bit of information? “You can hear it from the horse’s mouth.”
Who was Minnesota's last governor?
Hate to say this, but wouldn’t it be fun as Franken in the Senate...he’d make the ass clowns look worse than they already do. It would help Americans sober up after a very bad hanger.
Another hundred votes for Franken??? *Whew!* Keep looking, guys!!! /s
I’ll venture a rare opinion here.
It’s all legitimate. 24 vs 124 would be at the precinct level. That is not recounting votes. That is redoing math. Someone made an error. Some other errors were made during yesterday and fixed and they benefited Coleman.
The recount will be of paper ballots. The machines are excellent and made no errors. The hand count will vary from the machines by about 5 votes statewide.
Coleman will win by approximately the present margin.
You’re whistling Dixie if you think Coleman will hold this seat!! The RATS will prevail, even if they go to the cemeteries and get the extra votes they need. Hate to say it but American Democracy is dead. The USSS (United States of Socialists States) is alive and well. Kruschev said he “will bury us” and we laughed....thank you RATS!!
You never know about da Range. Sometimes those folks can surprise you.
The RATS will dig up the necessary votes.
I don’t understand how anyone could vote for Franken. But then, we just saw the results of mass hysteria in the Presidential election, so I shouldn’t be surprised.
It is being guided by auto-pilot at this point. There is no way to counter this kind of “trickle down” vote counting.
no. it was Landslide Lyndon.
It is pretty bad when you have to steal an election in your own state to become a US Senator. And then to top that off !.. kill a President in your own state in order to become President.
I knew the fix was in when the secretary of state spoke about determining the “intent of the voter”. Florida redux.
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