Worst. Election. Ever.: Franken Up By 48 Ballots With Most Counted

Awful.

Those 100 mystery votes that parachuted in after the first count seem to have done the trick.

That is down from a 251-vote advantage that Franken had at the end of the day Friday, before the Secretary of State's office allocated votes from ballot challenges that the two sides had previously withdrawn.

The new unofficial numbers include most of the allocated votes, but not those from some unresolved ballot challenges. Nor do they include as many as 1,500 to 1,600 improperly rejected absentee ballots that are still to be dealt with. In addition, the Coleman campaign contends that about 130 ballots may have been double-counted and is seeking court action on those.

As a previous post of Allah's noted, those other votes will probably break for Franken, or at least not enough for Coleman.

I can't believe this.

How Elections Get Stolen: Read the last paragraph here.

Look at the ballot they reference, here.

This ballot was counted for Franken.

Thanks to Village Idiot.

posted by Ace at 08:40 PM

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