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Minnesota Senate Recount, Update IV
Power Line —
... shows Norm Coleman with a 25,384-vote lead over former comedian Al Franken. That doesn't mean much, since the precincts that haven't finished recounting yet are mostly in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, tracking changes against original vote totals, has Coleman with a 180-vote lead. So the race is heading for a photo finish, with litigation over rejected absentee ballots likely to decide the outcome. ...
Minnesota Senate Recount -- update 2
The Reaction —
By Michael J.W. Stickings (For some good links, and more detailed analysis, see Update 1 from last Friday.) The recount continues. According to the Star Tribune, Coleman currently has a lead of 180 votes over Franken, with 68 percent of ballots recounted, up from a Friday lead of 120. What explains the increase? "Some of that may be attributed to the increased number of Franken ballots challenged by Coleman's campaign, which removes those ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update V
Power Line —
... Currently, the Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Norm Coleman with a 195-vote lead. Something like 75% of the ballots have been recounted, but a significant percentage of those remaining are from Minneapolis. Still, given the small changes that have occurred so far, it's hard to see Franken catching up, short of litigation. ...
Minnesota Recount Update
Politics Daily —
... I've been watching the Minneapolis Star Tribune special site set up to watch the Minnesota Senate recount battle between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat challenger Al Franken. After starting the recount process with about a 200 vote margin for Coleman and then getting as close as near 100 vote margin, we are now back to 210 votes up for Coleman. ...
Minnesota Senate Recount, Update VI
Power Line —
... It seems that the pace of the Minnesota Senate recount is slowing, with 82 percent of the ballots reportedly now recounted. It seems pretty clear that the votes the Franken campaign had hoped to uncover aren't there, so far. By the Minneapolis Star Tribune's count, Norm Coleman's lead has lengthened slightly to 231 votes. ...
Minnesota Senate Recount -- update 3
The Reaction —
... With 82 percent of ballots recounted, Norm Coleman has a lead of 231 votes over Al Franken. (Check out the Star Tribune's recount news page here. County-by-county results are ...
Al Franken Not Likely To Give Up Until Securing Fishy 'Victory'
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney —
... With US Senator Norm Coleman's lead in the Minnesota recount actually growing as the effort comes to a close (he's now up by 340 votes), some are beginning to believe Democratic challenger Al Franken will have no choice but to concede the race. ...
MN-Sen: Franken camp claims the lead
Daily Kos —
... Remember, this isn't an official count. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has Coleman leading by 303 votes, which is also not official. So what's going on? ...
Minnesota Senate Recount -- update 5
The Reaction —
... The more or less official tally has Coleman up by 316 (an increase of 101 since the start of the recount), but Franken's lead lawyer announced Wednesday afternoon that his candidate is actually in the lead by 22. How so? TPM's Eric Kleefeld ...
MN-Sen: Recount finished! (Kind of)
Daily Kos —
... With the recount over, the Star Tribune gives Norm Coleman a 238-vote lead, but that doesn't include challenged ballots, which number about 5,400, pending negotiations between the campaigns to reduce the number of challenged ballots. While the official state results site hasn't been updated yet, Minnesota Public Radio is reporting that the official margin will be down to a ...
The End Is Just Another Beginning
Hotline On Call Part Deux —
... The Minneapolis Star-Tribune uses its own system to determine recount results -- namely, removing any challenged ballot from its count. The paper's tally? Coleman leads by 192. ...
The Recount Is Over
Power Line —
... shows Coleman leading by 687 votes with 99.98% of precincts reporting--all but one. The Minneapolis Star Tribune shows Coleman with a 192 vote victory, with all ballots recounted. ...
Minnesota Recount Update
Politics Daily —
... Here's where we stand: All but one precinct has been recounted. Norm Coleman is ahead by 192 votes according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, but the latest is the saga of 133 supposedly missing ballots. Supposedly because one theory is that they were actually run through twice, which is why they have disappeared. ...
Minnesota May Heading Toward Resolution -- In Court
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... The quasi-official count provided by the Star Tribune shows Norm Coleman 192 votes ahead. This count, however, is not very useful. This is because it treats challenged ballots as nonvotes, essentially giving the benefit of the doubt to the challenger, when in fact the vast majority of challenges are liable to be rejected. ...
Minnesota Senate Recount -- update 6
The Reaction —
... The Star Tribune has Coleman up by 192, while Minnesota's secretary of state has him up by 687. Why the significant difference? The former's count includes the pre-recount totals from Minneapolis Ward 1 Precinct 3, where 133 ballots are missing, whereas the latter's count excludes the 1,965 ballots from that precinct, where Franken did well. ...
Democrat Al Franken made progress today in Minnesota
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Today was a big day for the recount in Minnesota. The current "official" tally shows incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman leading by 192 votes, however, the challenged ballots have yet to be counted (that will be done next week from Dec. 16 - 19). There are ongoing issues over 133 missing ballots and a large number of absentee ballots, which may have been incorrectly rejected. Those two issues was addressed today by the five-member Canvassing Board. Geek that I am, I watched the board's hearing live today via ...
Minnesota Recount Update
Ace of Spades HQ —
Minnesota Recount Update 2004081181.jpg The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has a running tally of the results . As of Friday, 10:38 am (CST), Al Franken is ahead by 120 votes. (h/t: ...
Good news: Franken now leads by triple digits
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... 280 and counting. Not only is this fantastically depressing, it’s fantastically confusing: Franken’s picking up votes by the hundreds because the board’s currently examining ballots challenged by Coleman, i.e. ballots which most everyone thinks are Franken votes but which weren’t counted before because Coleman found some nit to pick about them. They’re not done with those, so expect the lead to grow further this afternoon. Game over for Norm? Nope — there are another ...
Strange decisions made by the Minnesota Canvassing Board
Betsy's Page —
... , a different decision was reached. Franken is now up by 46 votes . Lott details how more than that number can be found in contrary decisions that the Canvassing Board made about how to count missing ballots. There has been much arbitrariness over whether to count newly found votes. Compare these 133 additional votes to the 171 votes that were found in Ramsey Countyâs Maplewood Precinct 6. In Precinct 6, Franken argued that the original vote total had missed the 171 votes because the voting machine was initially not working and the 171 were not rerun through the new machine ...
Next year in Minnesota
The Reaction —
... J.W. Stickings Minnesota Public Radio: Minnesotans will not know whether Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman won the Senate race until next year. Election officials, along with the two campaigns, have agreed on a framework for adding wrongly-rejected absentee ballots to the recount. Franken is currently up by just 47 votes. (The Star-Tribune has him up 46 and has more on the latest developments here and ...
Franken: 50 Vote Lead
The Latest on Air America —
Al Franken has expanded his lead over Senator Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race recount to 50 votes. To keep track of the recount click here . Politico has ...
