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MINNEAPOLIS -- The state Canvassing Board was poised to certify the results of the recount in Minnesota's grueling Senate election in Al Franken's favor -- but that doesn't mean the race is definitely over. The board was to meet Monday and was expected to declare which candidate received the most overall votes from nearly 3 million ballots cast. The latest numbers showed Franken, a Democrat, with a 225-vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. But after the announcement, there will be a seven-day waiting period before an election certificate is completed. If any lawsuits are filed during that waiting period,...

I've received new information to confirm that King County's large discrepancy between ballots counted and voters counted is an outsized anomaly. As I reported earlier, King County's discrepancy of miscounted ballots, (considering both voterless ballots and ballotless voters) -- is on the order of at least 3,700 ballots. Dean Logan did not dispute my numbers at last week's town hall meeting. At best, he might have explained some of the miscounted ballots with his claim that 250 of the unverified provisional ballots were paired with empty provisional envelopes from eligible voters. Even so, 3,400 miscounted ballots is still an outsized...