fivethirtyeight.com - 11/11/2008
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A Minneapolis-based Daily Kos diarist named 'bitwise' has done some further sleuthing on the impending Minnesota senate recount , which we had discussed at length this morning . Here's what he's found: The freshest data, pulled from the state website minutes ago, shows Franken down by 206 votes. ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/10/2008
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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 ...
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Franken's Odds of Winning Recount May Be Long -- or Short
foxnews.com - 11/10/2008
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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 ...
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Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud - Opinion
ksax.com - 11/9/2008
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ksax.com —
A judge ruled Saturday that 32 new absentee
ballots will be counted in the race for U.S.
Senate. Coleman's campaign learned of the new ballots Friday night after a phone call from Minneapolis elections director Cynthia Reichert. "We were actually told ...
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Judge rules new ballots will be counted in close Senate ...
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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 ...
Minnesota's US Senate Race - We Steal Now?
Bitch. Ph.D. —
... Nate at 538 gives Franken a reluctant 'leans Franken' on the recount. Minnesota's voting apparatus is top-notch, with fully auditable paper trails and transparency. ...
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CNN Political Ticker 11/9/2008
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