Franken campaign mgr on hartmann - down to 50 votes

[Doctor_J]

50! 200,000 left to be counted. Says Coleman is trying to steal it by challenging hundreds of votes.

[snowbear]

1. What's the deal with Ramsey County?

This was just on Google news..

More ballots found in Ramsey County
By Jason Hoppin
[e-mail]
Updated: 12/02/2008 01:39:45 PM CST


Ramsey County election officials have found 171 ballots that were not counted on Election Day, a development that could have implications for the outcome of Minnesota's 2008 U.S. Senate race.

Those ballots had been initially counted Nov. 4 before a machine malfunction forced elections officials to bring in a new counting machine. The 171 ballots are votes that were never tabulated by the new machine.

Ramsey County Elections Manager Joe Mansky noticed the discrepency as the county continued recounting suburban cities this week.

"We found more ballots than we had voters," Mansky said.

"When we got the results sent into us, they would not have included those ballots," he added.

Out of 2.9 million votes cast in the Nov. 4 election, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's lead over Democratic-Farmer-Labor challenger Al Franken stood at 215 votes, triggering a statewide hand recount.

Coleman's lead has since grown to 344 votes, when recounted precincts are compared to Election Day totals. However, Coleman's lead is clouded by nearly 6,000 challenged ballots, or ballots where the campaigns don't agree on a voter's intent.

The state Canvassing Board is expected to start deciding on challenged ballots at its scheduled Dec. 16 meeting.

But the Franken campaign has maintained that based on its internal numbers, Coleman's lead is down to double-digits, making the discovery of 171 uncounted ballots a potential game-changer.

The ballots come from Maplewood's Precinct 6, which favored Franken over Coleman, 45 percent to 39 percent.
Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley won 14 percent of the vote in the precinct.

http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_11120697?nclick_check=1

[RiverStone]

2. Great news! Of course, this will be settled in the courts...

[still_one]

3. OK, will Franken can challenge votes also /nt

[Divine Discontent]

4. I believe you're asking if Al's people can challenge any particular vote

yes. they've each challenged roughly the same amount.

[still_one]

5. I know, it was mostly retorical. Thanks though /nt

[Unsane]

6. Is fartmann on at night too?

[Doctor_J]

7. Not unless there's a late-night rerun on AAR.

[Rosco T.]

8. On XM yes.