Franken gains from uncounted Ramsey ballots
Franken gains from uncounted Ramsey ballots (flag)
minnesota.publicradio.org — Democrat Al Franken has gained 37 votes on Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in the U.S. Senate recount, after Ramsey County found 171 ballots that weren't counted on election night.
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Minnesota Recount: Another 171 ballots suddenly appear
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... You know what the Minnesota recount really needs?  A bunch of uncounted ballots appearing out of thin air .  A Maplewood precinct discovered 171 ballots that didn’t get counted on Election Night: Recount officials in Ramsey County found 171 ballots today that weren’t counted on election night. The county’s Elections Manager Joe Mansky says an optical scan vote counting machine broke down in Maplewood during the initial count. It was replaced, but local election judges didn’t run some of the ballots through the new machine. There’s a good news/bad news aspect to this. The bad ...

Breaking: AP projects Chambliss to win Georgia runoff
Sister Toldjah — ... on that, including news on the “discovery” of 171 ballots from one precinct not counted in the original vote totals. Stay tuned. ...

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