November 10, 2008
Go to Minnesota
John Lott has a scary piece on the Minnesota recount:
When voters woke up on Wednesday morning after the election, Senator Norm Coleman led Al Franken by what seemed like a relatively comfortable 725 votes. By Wednesday night, that lead had shrunk to 477. By Thursday night, it was down to 336. By Friday, it was 239. Late Sunday night, the difference had gone down to just 221 -- a total change over 4 days of 504 votes.Amazingly, this all has occurred even though there hasn’t even yet been a recount. Just local election officials correcting claimed typos in how the numbers were reported. Counties will certify their results today, and their final results will be sent to the secretary of state by Friday. The actual recount won’t even start until November 19.
Read the whole thing.
Posted by Karol at November 10, 2008 01:56 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Minnesota+recount
Is there any doubt this will end up like the Washington gubernatorial race last time around? Just keep recounting until the Democrat wins, then you're done!
Posted by: Eric at November 10, 2008 02:16 PMNope, no doubt.
Posted by: Karol at November 10, 2008 03:23 PMDoesn't seem so scary or fraudulent unless you went into the process hoping for fraud.
For instance, Lott discounted the value of handcounting analysis because optical scan vote counting machines return ballots to voters if no vote is recorded for a contested race., but buried in this analysis of Franken's odds is the fact that most precincts in Minnesota were not set up to alert the poll workers if there was an undervote, only if there was an overvote. Either Lott didn't know or he is laying the groundwork for Coleman to falsely claim fraud just in case he doesn't like the result.
Posted by: Charles at November 10, 2008 03:50 PMClearly lots of voters in the precinct in question intended to vote for Obama, and didn't care about any of the other races. The corrupt election judges who work these districts obviously have taken the intervening days to "correct" the voter's oversight. I'm shocked to find dems stuffing ballot boxes. It's OK. I'm in charge of hanging all of them after the revolution. I won't charge for NDS's pet monkey Charles.
Posted by: Casca at November 10, 2008 10:28 PMYet another reason to get out of Minnesota.
Posted by: Jake at November 10, 2008 11:13 PMTHAT'S RACIST!
Posted by: Charles at November 11, 2008 08:04 AMAll right, Charles. Is circus pet monkey better?
Posted by: Tatyana at November 11, 2008 10:34 AM*sigh*
Posted by: Charles at November 11, 2008 05:02 PMThis Senate race here in MN is just crazy! I have been reading that they now have round the clock guards guarding the ballots. And both parties have representatives there to ensure that all is kosher. Crazy!
Posted by: Minneapolis Condos at November 11, 2008 06:11 PMYou have a problem with doing democracy properly?
Posted by: bryan at November 13, 2008 09:27 AM
