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Coleman Offers to Bow Out of Senate Race ?!?!? :^\
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2008 “Yesterday the voters spoke. We prevailed,” … [my opponent could opt to waive the recount.] “It’s up to him whether such a step is worth the tax dollars it will take to conduct,” He said, telling reporters he would “step back” if he were in [his opponent's] position… Oh. No, wait, sorry. I got that…
Coleman Offers to Bow Out of Senate Race ?!?!? :^\
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2008 “Yesterday the voters spoke. We prevailed,” … [my opponent could opt to waive the recount.] “It’s up to him whether such a step is worth the tax dollars it will take to conduct,” He said, telling reporters he would “step back” if he were in [his opponent's] position… Oh. No, wait, sorry. I got that…
Coleman Offers to Bow Out of Senate Race ?!?!? :^\
Posted by Greg Laden on December 21, 2008 “Yesterday the voters spoke. We prevailed,” … [my opponent could opt to waive the recount.] “It’s up to him whether such a step is worth the tax dollars it will take to conduct,” He said, telling reporters he would “step back” if he were in [his opponent's] position… Oh. No, wait, sorry. I got that…
Franken Pulls “Way” Ahead in Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on December 19, 2008 Update: Franken is ahead by 249 votes !!! UPDATE: DONE with the Franken re-entered (some withdrawn) … now looking at some ballots that were set aside earlier. UPDATE: … bam… the canvassing board just threw out consideration of all the duplicate ballots except seven that have some reasonable ‘on the face’ cases. UPDATE: The small…
Critical Ruling in Franken Coleman Recount Case!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 18, 2008 Right now, the best estimate for the difference between Franken and Coleman in the Minnesota Senate Race Recount is between about two and five votes (Coleman leading). The challenges that are currently underway and that will be finished tomorrow come hell or high water will shift that mainly towards Franken. It is quite likely that…
Further thoughts on the recount
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 Think back to Florida eight years ago. There is a reasonable argument that Al Gore was duly voted, even via the electoral college, to be President of the United States, but George W. Bush was placed in that office for one and only one reason: The recount process in Florida was transformed into a circus,…
Franken Challenges Finished.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 Moments ago, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board has completed the review of several hundred challenges produced during the process of recounting the November 5th ballots in the US Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. The next stage will be to review the Coleman challenges, of which there are approximately double the number as…
Franken Poised to Take Senate Seat
Posted by Greg Laden on December 16, 2008 )Updated) According to several different sources of information, it appears that when the challenged ballots are figured into the current Minnesota Senate Seat Recount, Candidate Al Franken will move ahead of incumbent Senator Norm Coleman by somewhere between eight and twelve votes. This is significantly different than I had expected. I had predicted that Franken…
Coleman Campaign Admits They Are Stoopit
Posted by Greg Laden on December 12, 2008 “The actions today by the Canvassing Board can only be described as confusing to us.” Coleman’s chief lawyer, Fritz Knaak, has filed papers to stop 133 votes in a Franken-leaning section of Minneapolis … mainly college students … from being counted. Why? Because he is too stupid to understand the not so complicated situation… “While…
Is The Criminal Genius Vizzini on the Minnesota Election Canvassing Board?
Posted by Greg Laden on December 12, 2008 Something very interesting just happened in Minnesota. You know about the recount, and you know that today the canvassing board is deciding what to do about a number of possibly improperly rejected absentee ballots. At least 630, and possibly as many as 1,500, absentee ballots have been improperly rejected in the Minnesota Senate race. If…
Very Important Day in Franken-Coleman Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on December 12, 2008 Next week, probably over a four day period, the ad hoc State Canvassing Board will go through all the recount data and look at the 3-4 thousand contested ballots and come up with a final number in this very close Minnesota senate race. But today they are expected to make a couple of decisions that…
Franken Campaign and the Absentee Ballots
Posted by Greg Laden on December 11, 2008 On the eve of a key State Canvassing Board meeting on the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Al Franken presented affidavits today from 62 Minnesotans who said their absentee ballots were improperly rejected. With Franken behind in the official Senate recount, the affidavits were the latest attempt by the campaign to increase the pressure on the…
Norm Coleman is Stealing the Election — What You Can Do About It
Posted by Greg Laden on December 10, 2008 Wait — my headline is wrong. Coleman isn’t stealing the election, and neither is Franken. Both sides are going to fight the recount battle all the way to the end, and that’s the way it should be. And the election isn’t in chaos. Routine problems are being handled routinely, with one precinct still up in…
“Count My Vote”
Posted by Greg Laden on December 10, 2008 Get pissed off. Go here.
Franken-Coleman Recount: The count, what’s next, and what you need to do …
Posted by Greg Laden on December 6, 2008 I have a little more information and some exact numbers for you. First, some of the numbers. The number of votes per candidate not counting Minneapolis 3-1, which has a packet of missing votes currently being searched for: Franken: 1,210,285 Coleman: 1,210,995 The number of votes per candidate including Minneapolis 31′s results from the machine…
The Franken Coleman Recount: What next?
Posted by Greg Laden on December 5, 2008 All but one precinct has been counted (and I understand that will be done momentarily). However, there is a box (or bag or envelope) of ballots missing in Minneapolis. The Secretary of State has indicated that the recount deadline is extended to allow these missing 130 or so votes to be found and included. (Coleman’s…
The Last Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on November 30, 2008 An enjoyable overview of the Coleman Franken Recount process all it attends to … “What do we want?” Franken shouts. “PATIENCE!” the volunteers respond. “When do we want it?” Franken asks. “NOW!” the crowd demands. Here Hat tip: Ana
Coleman’s New Strategy
Posted by Greg Laden on November 27, 2008 The word on the street is that Colleman recount watchers have shifted strategy in order to increase an apparent lead over Al Franken. It seems that many of the Coleman people are challenging perfectly good Al Franken ballots in order to make the miniscule Coleman lead appear to grow, possibly allowing Coleman to have Yet…
Minnesota Senate Recount Information
Posted by Greg Laden on November 26, 2008 Another local blogger, Jeff Rosenberg, is following the recount and providing his own analysis. Here.
The Minnesota Senate Recount: Reversal of Fortune
Posted by Greg Laden on November 25, 2008 With 80.6 percent of the vote recounted, the known difference between Coleman and Franken has for the first time grown greater than the audited and adjusted original count differenct of 215. The difference is now, by my rekoning, a whopping 238. This, by Norm Coleman’s standards, is a virtual landslide!!! But that number is fairly…
Minnesota Senate Recount: Numbers Settle In
Posted by Greg Laden on November 25, 2008 The numbers are now settling in for the Coleman-Franken Senate race recount for Minnesota. With 74.2% of the votes counted, it is now possible to make a reasonably good prediction of the outcome of the current recount, not counting challenged ballots or other changes. The following graph shows the change across time for each day…
Franken To Win Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on November 23, 2008 FiveThirtyEight is a pretty good web site dealing with polls and other election realted number crunching. They predicted the outcome of the race for president almost as accurately as I did, so I figure they’re pretty good. And now, FiveThirtyEight has a reasonably good analysis suggesting that Franken is going to win the recount. Here’s…
The Latest Coleman-Franken Recount Tracking Graph
Posted by Greg Laden on November 23, 2008 Here’s the graph: The explanation for the graph is here. This is a little misleading. The number of votes counted yesterday and contributing to this right-most point is very small … hardly any counting was going on during the day Saturday. The Monday data, added to this, will be more useful. (In fact, some of…
OMG Republicans You Must Be Freakin’ Joking!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on November 22, 2008 This is hyst-fucking-erical. OK, we’ve been recounting ballots pursuant to the implementation of actual Democracy in the Coleman-Franken race for U.S. Senate. So what do you think the standard JOKE among the Democrats … working as volunteers to observe the count for Franken … has been? This: “I challene this ballot because the voter filled…
Effect of Political Leaning: Franken-leaning areas do not produce more Franken votes in recount
Posted by Greg Laden on November 22, 2008 … and there is strong evidence of shenanigans on the part of Coleman supporters (or someone). As I mentioned earlier, the idea is afoot that there will be more of a shift towards Al Franken in geographical regions that favor Franken than in Coleman-sympathetic regions, in the current US Senate recount for Minnesota. I disagree,…
The Minnesota Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on November 22, 2008 As a very hectic week settles down a bit, I can give you a little more information and perspective on the Minnesota US Senate Race recount. There are a number of misconceptions circulating about this process that I can dispel, and I have a pair of predictions for you: Taking the same exact data, we…
I look forward to my new career as an election overseer.
Posted by Greg Laden on November 15, 2008 So, for the next two weeks or so, an army of volunteers, state workers, and lawyers are going to be counting and observing the counting, and contesting and arguing about, every single one of the nearly three million ballots cast last election day in Minnesota in the race for Senator. I had spent some time…
Judge Agrees: Coleman Is Corrupt
Posted by Greg Laden on November 14, 2008 During the Franken – Coleman senatorial campaign in Minnesota, Republican Norm Coleman issues a number of very negative campaign ads filled with misrepresentations and lies about Al Franken. Meanwhile, Democrat Al Franken issued ads critical of Norm Coleman. There was a difference: Coleman’s ads were lies, Franken’s ads were accurate. Nonetheless, Coleman, known not only…
Help with the recount?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 11, 2008 The Al Franken campaign seeks volunteers to help with the recount starting next week. There is a training session this Saturday and people are being asked to commit a day or more (but in units of whole days) to the effort some time over the subsequent weeks, on weekdays. (There are logistical reasons for this.)…
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Posted by Greg Laden on November 10, 2008 The ‘lead’ held by Republican Senator Norm Colman over Democratic Party Candidate, Radio Talk Show Host, SNL Star, Satirist, Author and Cartologist Al Franken has dropped to 204 points. You may be wondering how this could happen.
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