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Patterico's Pontifications —
As of right now, it looks like the Al Franken Senate race is going to go down to the wire.
- Justin Levine
Franken
Weekly Standard Blog —
... I'm not sure why this is, but the Minnesota secretary of state's election results website shows Coleman doing better than CNN: With 95 percent of precincts reporting the Republican senator is up by 11,000 votes. If the CNN map is to be trusted, the bad news is that the uncounted precincts seem to be concentrated in St. Paul and the Iron Range in northeast Minnesota, both areas that skew Democratic. ...
Senator Al Franken?? Fasten Your Seatbelts Folks…
Patterico's Pontifications —
As of 12:53 AM PST
98% of Minnesota precincts in…
Secretary of State’s site:
Republican NORM COLEMAN 1,177,879 42.09%
Democrat AL FRANKEN 1,171,077 41.85%
But CNN says:
FRANKEN 1,188,073 42%
COLEMAN 1,185,786 42%
- Justin Levine
Coleman/Franken: What A Race!
Riehl World View —
Senator Norm Coleman is holding on to the thinnest of margins with 99.13% of precincts reporting in a race that's currently too close to call and certain to see a recount.
The results are updating regularly - see here. (scroll down)
At present there are about 14 precincts in Duluth still to report and Franken makes up ground as everyone comes in. That's probably changed, if not complete, by the time you read this post.
They're currently separated by about 7,000 6,400 6198 5,785 votes (yeah, for now, it's finishing that quick and close) with over 2.4 million already cast and counted. The ...
Did Norm Coleman win?
Power Line —
... According to the Minnesota Secretary of State, the Minnesota Senate race is not quite over. A photo finish is guaranteed, with incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman edging out Al Franken by 1,037 votes out of nearly 3,000,000 votes cast as of 5:41 a.m. (Central) this morning. That's with with 99.71 percent of precincts reporting, leaving 12 precincts out there somewhere to report results. ( ...
Recount in Coleman v. Franken
Weekly Standard Blog —
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Norm Coleman is beating Al Franken by 726 votes. There will be an automatic recount.
Senate Races Update: And Then There Were Three
Weekly Standard Blog —
... 50,000 remaining absentee and early votes have been counted. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Stevens was convicted for failing to include gifts from a businessman on his personal financial disclosures filed with the Senate. ... If he is re-elected and later resigns, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin must call for a special election. State law is unclear on whether she can appoint someone to fill the seat temporarily."
In Minnesota, Norm Coleman is leading Al Franken by 477 votes, but a recount of more than 2.5 million ballots cast is about to ...
MN-Sen: Getting Tighter
Swing State Project —
Last night, Hans Cole-Man was leading Al Franken by 477 votes. Of course, for the dickface that is Norm Coleman, that margin was good enough to ask Al Franken to waive the mandatory recount requirement and just call it day right there.
But the Minnesota Secretary of State has been updating its final results tally during the day, and Cole-Man's lead keeps getting smaller:
9:15 AM
Coleman: 1,211,520
Franken: 1,211,077
10:15 AM
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Why Is Norm Coleman's Lead Slipping?
Weekly Standard Blog —
Markos Moulitsas notes that Norm Coleman's lead over Al Franken has been diminishing:
A reader has been tracking vote results updates from the Minnesota's SoS office:
9:15 AM
Coleman: 1,211,520
Franken: 1,211,077
10:15 AM
Coleman: 1,211,525
Franken: 1,211,088
1:20 PM
Coleman: 1,211,527
Franken: 1,211,190
That means the gap has gone down from 443, to 437, to 337 as provisional and other straggler ballots are counted. It was 477 votes last night.
Coleman's lead is now down to 236 votes, but the gap ...
MN US Senate Race: A "Fix" Looks Underway
SCSUScholars —
Why are all post election revisions to the vote count coming out in favor of Democrat Al Franken? It is no coincidence that MN's Secretary of State is a blatant, partisan Democrat. Minnesotans deserve elections handled with integrity. Count the votes accurately. Minnesota should not aspire to be known as the Washington state of the Midwest. This morning the difference was 725. it's now down to 236.
MN-Sen: Still closing
Daily Kos —
Just arrived at my hotel in Chicago for a brief, one-day visit, and the first thing I did was check the vote tallies. When we last checked in Minnesota, Coleman's lead had shrunk from 477 to 337. Well, things look even better tonight, as the gap has shrunk to 236 votes. Where did those votes come from? 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 ...
Did Norm Coleman win? Part 2
Power Line —
... Before the mandatory recount has even begun, Senator Coleman's lead over Franken has shrunk to 236 votes as county auditors have adjusted their tallies. The Secretary of State won't certify a final result until early next week. (The St. Paul Pioneer Press carries a good account of the process that is underway ...
MN-Sen: And still closing
Daily Kos —
Late last night Franken face a 236-vote deficit against incumbent Norm Coleman. As county registrars review their math (all of this pre-recount), adjustments continue to be made. As of this post, the gap is now 221 votes. According to Minnesota law, the ballots will be examined for voter intent. CW is that most spoiled ballots (not properly marked per instructions) come from inexperienced and first-time voters, or Democratic-leaning voters. We'll know in a few weeks if that's really the case. But the closer the final certified pre-recount tally, the better for Franken's chances of taking this thing.
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MN-Senate: Franken Closing
Taylor Marsh —
Guest post by Scott Hopkins
A race for the ages continues to unfold in Minnesota. As of last night, the current numbers are:
Norm Coleman 41.99% (1211556)
Al Franken 41.98% (1211335)
...which comes out to a difference of 221 votes.
When the AP mistakenly called the race for Coleman on Wednesday morning, the number stood at 571. As the numbers have been verified, his lead has continued to shrink.
And that’s not all: ...
Minnesota Senate Vote Count Keeps Getting Tighter
TPM Election Central —
... As of right now, Coleman leads by only 204 votes, compared to a 211-vote lead at the close of business Friday. In the immediate totals after Election Night, Coleman led by about 800 votes. ...
Another precinct heard from #mnrecount
SCSUScholars —
John Lott writes today about the Minnesota "pre-count". This all has occurred even though there hasn’t even yet been a recount. Just local election officials correcting claimed typos in how the numbers were reported. Counties will certify their results today, and their final results will be sent to the secretary of state by Friday. The actual recount won’t even start until November 19. Correcting these typos was claimed to add 435 votes to Franken and take 69 votes from Coleman. Corrections were posted in other races, but they were only a fraction of those for the Senate. The Senate gains for Franken were 2.5 ...
Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
Although it might seem like we've already covered all the ground there is to cover on the Minnesota recount process, we may be able to draw some additional lessons from Florida's recount experience in 2000. In 2001, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago undertook a comprehensive review of almost all ballots rejected in initial counts in the state of Florida in 2000, a process known as the Florida Ballot Project. NORC provides a wealth of data for public consumption, some of which is especially helpful to our purposes here. Specifically, I examined records for a set of 6,902 undervotes in a series of 37 Florida ...
Checking the Vote-Checking in Minnesota
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
Minnesota is in the middle of something called a "post-election audit." It is not the Franken/Coleman recount; that starts next week. It is a check of the accuracy of Minnesota's optical scan voting machines, mandated by state law and performed after all statewide elections.
Election officials are hand-counting ballots from selected precincts and comparing the results to the machine-tabulated totals. Sounds like a recount, right? Except it operates on a much smaller scale — in 2006, the post-election audit reviewed ballots from just 5 percent of the state's precincts.
So how is it going so far? The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, which has ...
Nate Silver: Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
The Latest on Air America —
Although it might seem like we've already covered all the ground there is to cover on the Minnesota recount process, we may be able to draw some additional lessons from Florida's recount experience in 2000. In 2001, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago undertook a comprehensive review of almost all ballots rejected in initial counts in the state of Florida in 2000, a process known as the Florida Ballot Project . NORC provides a wealth of data for public consumption, some of which is especially helpful to our purposes here. Specifically, I examined records for a set of 6,902 undervotes in a series of 37 Florida counties that used ...
The Rude Pundit — Photos That Make the Rude Pundit Want to Snort Lutefisk: That flat-faced fuck up there is former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman (no, seriously, that is a disturbing damn profile - who the fuck hit him with a frying pan?). As the current vote tally of his race against Al Franken stands, Coleman is still behind by 225 votes. This, of course, leaves out the votes of independent candidate Dean Barkley, who received 15% of the vote. Combined with Franken's 42%, the math seems to indicate that 57% of Minnesotans don't want Norm Coleman to be their Senator. Yes, the same could be said of Franken, but Coleman was the one up for ...
