Running Recount Numbers for Monday, 11/24:

[SomeGuyInEagan]

According to Minnesota Public Radio's site today (11/24/08):

Total ballots recounted: 74.18 percent (2,166,181 of 2,920,214)
Recount votes for Coleman: 908,063
Recount votes for Franken: 889,891
Recount votes for Other: 363,852
Challenged by Coleman: 1,400
Challenged by Franken: 1,401
Percent challenged: 0.129306%

Notable are the two counties with the most left to recount: Hennepin (still about 30 percent or 140,000 votes to be counted) and Ramsey (still about 36 percent or 41,000 votes to be recounted).

Most counties are done counting or have completed 95 percent or more of their recount. A few are in the 80s (Dakota with nearly 172,000 total votes, Saint Louis with just over 94,000 total votes and Sterns with just over 75,000 total votes) and to others (Steele with nearly 1,700 total and Becker with nearly 4,400 total) are below 30 percent complete.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/2008/campaign/results/mn/recount/recount.php

[SomeGuyInEagan]

1. Disregard information in sentence format ...

... I misread the data on the MPR site.

This information is correct at end-of-day for Monday, Nov. 24th:

"According to Minnesota Public Radio's site today (11/24/08):

Total ballots recounted: 74.18 percent (2,166,181 of 2,920,214)
Recount votes for Coleman: 908,063
Recount votes for Franken: 889,891
Recount votes for Other: 363,852
Challenged by Coleman: 1,400
Challenged by Franken: 1,401
Percent challenged: 0.129306%"

and the information about what is left to be reported is actualy percentage of precincts left to report. I misread that part, did some calculations and in doing do misrepresented what the numbers mean. Sorry, folks.

[qb]

2. Thanks for posting. It's interesting to see the difference between the numbers at MPR & Strib

Apparently MPR is only looking at the recounted ballots while the Strib is doing some kind of math with the original machine count & the recount numbers. I've decided to put the recount on ignore until the issues of challenges, missing ballots & rejected absentee ballots have been resolved. I think there is some game-playing going on with the challenges to manipulate the margin.

http://ww2.startribune.com/news/metro/elections/returns/2008/recount/msenco.html