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Downballot: A shallow pool

 

Published 3/10/2009 by Domenico Montanaro at First Read

MINNESOTA: “In the end, the pool turned out to be pretty shallow,” the Star Tribune writes. “Republican Norm Coleman had hoped an inspection of hundreds of secrecy envelopes holding rejected absentee ballots would yield enough additional votes to help him cut into DFLer Al Franken's 225-vote lead. But it turned out that only 89 of them had valid registrations. That means Coleman's pool of 1,725 ballots that he has said should be counted probably has shrunk by several hundred -- at least for now --...( read more ) (link)

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