Begging A Gnarly Question

Surprising results from the recount, says the PiPress – most of Coleman’s pick-up is coming from Minneapolis:

But Minneapolis — the biggest, bluest pile of all — is turning [the notion that the inner city should be a treasure trove of dangling Franken chads] on its head. With nearly half of its ballots recounted, the city Franken calls home isn’t doing the candidate any favors. And that could be dimming Franken’s hopes of catching Coleman before the state canvassing board meets Dec. 16.

‘Things are clearly moving in the wrong direction for Franken,’ said [the inevitable] Larry Jacobs, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance.

With fewer than half of the ballots counted in Minneapolis, Franken has lost 86 votes, while Coleman has lost just 37. In other words, the city could be blunting any recount advantage Franken might have in the rest of the state as the recount rolls toward its Dec. 5 deadline.”

So here’s the question:  why was Minneapolis’ original count so short of Coleman ballots?

9 thoughts on “Begging A Gnarly Question

  1. Without looking at the numbers, part of the Coleman Strategy is to challenge any vote they can that has Franken’s name on it. Those lost votes you refer to are probably sitting in the challenge pile.

    (Now going to look at the numbers)

    To date, per the Spread sheet on the SoS site, Coleman has challenged 150 ballots to Franken’s 98, a difference od 52. Gee, and the difference you have in the block quote is 51. Coincidence, I think not!

    Listen, what we are finding out, if anything, that our machines do a pretty damn good job of counting, it is these humans, on both sides, that are gumming up the process. Fortunately, we have pretty clear statutes that determine voter intent. We can kick and scream all we want but that won’t change this process.

    Coleman will in, by a slightly smaller margin, and we can all be confident it was done fairly and legally. And should Franken pull it out, I’ll have the same level of confidence.

    Flash

  2. Mitch, it’s possible someone in Minneapolis fudged something, just as it’s possible somoene in Austin did, but if, by any stretch, you are trying to imply that Democrats would try something nefarious which Republicans wouldn’t, that, sir, is BS. If that’s what your trying to imply, shame on you.

  3. Yes, Mitch! Peev is calling shame down upon you! Great, copious amounts of shameful SHAME! I hope you can sleep tonight, what with the great waggling finger of Peev shame hanging over your head.

  4. Hmmm. Is it possible that all of those rejected Franken ballots had the exact same error? Just asking. Maybe riding around in the trunk of a car together had some influence on them?

  5. JEwing, the trunk ballot myth has been fully and totally debunked, including by Knaack who said it was clear everything was done properly.

    Keep up, will ya!

  6. Penigma, the ugly reality is that all of the recent difficulties with ballots have occurred where the Democrats were in control. Palm Beach County, Washington State, Chicago (ahem), and now the Iron Range and Ramsey County. So yes, the data do suggest that if anyone is messing with ballots, it’s the party of equus asinus.

  7. Flash makes a fair point about the challenged ballots. Also there is the fact that Franken received the vast majority of the vote in Minneapolis, he can only go down in a recount.

  8. Why is that the difficulties with ballots have happened where the liberal illuminati Democrats were in control? Hmmm!

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