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fivethirtyeight.com - 11/10/2008

Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short

— fivethirtyeight.com — Votes counted in Minnesota's senate race: 2,833,089 Votes separating Norm Coleman and Al Franken: 221 Determining a... candidate's odds of winning a recount is a function of three parameters. The first parameter is the margin separating the leading and ... (more) Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short

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foxnews.com - 11/10/2008

Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud - Opinion

— foxnews.com — Monday, November 10, 2008 By John R. Lott Jr. Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida... was in 2000 or Washington State in 2006 -- a real mess. The outcome will determine whether Democrats get 58 members of the U.S. Senate, giving them an ... (more) Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud - Opinion

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minnesotarecount.com - 11/11/2008

Minnesota Recount

— minnesotarecount.com — From The New York Times’s The Caucus Blog : Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who dipped into... his own deep pockets to help finance his presidential bid, has directed $5,000 from his “Free and Strong America” political action committee to aid the ... (more) Minnesota Recount

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Nate Silver: Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
The Latest on Air America — ... within a precinct that mismarked their ballots are more likely to be disposed toward Franken. If anything, therefore, the 52.5% estimate may be conservative. The more that I examine this data, the more I'm beginning to believe that the number of reclassifiable ballots may be relatively low, but that the proportion of such ballots that are resolved in Franken's favor may be relatively high. How these two factors will ultimately reconcile themselves, I don't know. Crosspost via FiveThirtyEight

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty Pushes Back On Voter Fraud Allegations
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... on the matter as counterpoint, since Silver is on pretty solid footing where statistical analysis is concerned. That said, it's fair to give Pawlenty a certain amount of credit during this exchange: it would be the easiest thing in the world to just nod along to Hannity's fulminations and reinforce their veracity. Instead, Pawlenty sticks up for those who believe that accusations should be backed up with actual evidence, and he refuses to go along with the notion that his Secretary of State is some kind of cheat, saying, "I want to be clear about this. I know Mark Ritchie. He ...

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty Pushes Back On Voter Fraud Allegations
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... on the matter as counterpoint, since Silver is on pretty solid footing where statistical analysis is concerned. That said, it's fair to give Pawlenty a certain amount of credit during this exchange: it would be the easiest thing in the world to just nod along to Hannity's fulminations and reinforce their veracity. Instead, Pawlenty sticks up for those who believe that accusations should be backed up with actual evidence, and he refuses to go along with the notion that his Secretary of State is some kind of cheat, saying, "I want to be clear about this. I know Mark Ritchie. He ...

Why I Call Them “The GOP/Media Complex”
Firedoglake — ... Times.  The Gross Lady not only gave media play to Fritz Knaak's evidence-free claims of "shenanigans" (without so much as even a bogus hint as to what these alleged "shenanigans" might be), but gave respectful space to other bogosities and groundless opinionating designed to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Minnesota's recount process - and on Franken's victory, should he win (which, as Nate Silver explains, is quite possible, and in fact may be likely).   The Gross Lady is also amping up its FOX imitation by passing along, without ...

Several Deep Breaths Reco’d for Minnesota, Nation
The Moderate Voice — ... , etc. One or more of the now-lost commenters suggested Minnesota would soon replace Florida on the recount walk of shame. Puh-lease. While it’s fair to argue that every state in the union should seek election-perfection, it’s equally fair to argue that this particular incarnation of the Platonic ideal won’t be achieved — ever— certainly not by human hands, nor by machine, nor by a combination of the two. A week after the Nov. 4 election, Nate Silver offered this perspective : In Minnesota’s 2006 senate race, the audit detected just 53 discrepancies out of 94,073 ballots ...