{"id":11999,"date":"2010-07-13T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11999"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:51:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:51:35","slug":"margin-of-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11999","title":{"rendered":"Margin Of Error"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Majority reports (via Fox<\/a>) that Ramsey County is investigating felons voting in Saint Paul during the ’08 elections:<\/p>\n

That’s the finding of an 18-month study conducted by Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group, which found that at least 341 convicted felons in largely Democratic Minneapolis-St. Paul voted illegally in the 2008 Senate race between Franken, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, then-incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.<\/p>\n

The final recount vote in the race, determined six months after Election Day, showed Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes — fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were counted, according to Minnesota Majority’s newly released study, which matched publicly available conviction lists with voting records…<\/p>\n

…”We aren’t trying to change the result of the last election. That legally can’t be done,” said Dan McGrath, Minnesota Majority’s executive director. “We are just trying to make sure the integrity of the next election isn’t compromised.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Naturally, the MNGOP is excited about this.<\/p>\n

And, equally naturally, the DFL\/media spin machine is not.<\/p>\n

Writing at the MinnPost, Doug Grow – who was always almost <\/em>as reliable a DFL shill as Lori Sturdevant – is on fact-check detail<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Now, some context:<\/p>\n