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U.S. SENATE RECOUNT DATA POSTED – 98.88% COMPLETED
By Michael B. Brodkorb | December 5, 2008
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s office is posting unofficial data on the status of the U.S. Senate Recount. 98.88 percent of ballots have been counted. Click here to view the complete results, which will be updated after 8:00 p.m. on each day of the recount.
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December 5th, 2008 at 6:50 AM
I do not understand the totals on SOS site. Did Al really win on Nov. 4? Is he still ahead after recounting 98.88%? What is with this site?
December 5th, 2008 at 7:26 AM
So does the count end tonight? The closer we get to the end, the slower it goes. I never like government related findings that come out late on a Friday.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:33 AM
Ranger, at the SoS site they post two sets of numbers only considering the precincts recounted and then show the votes from A) Election night, and B) recount numbers. So of the 98.8 ballots recounted, those ballots cast on Nov 4th were:
Nov. 4 Ballots Cast for Norm Coleman 1195885
Nov. 4 Ballots Cast for Al Franken 1200533
and the recounted numbers, which is sans challenged ballots, you have:
RECOUNT Number for Coleman 1193307 41.33
RECOUNT Number for Franken 1197965 41.49
So the confusion is you are thinking 100% final numbers, but those Nov 4 counts are only of the 98.88 ballots and their results before and after.
Now do I have you really confused *laughing*
December 5th, 2008 at 9:12 AM
I’m proud to know that Mark Richie is a moderate Democrat who values fair play and accurate results.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:20 AM
Flash—-so when the 100% is reported, the total becomes self-correcting and Coleman’s lead from Nov. 4 will be reflected in the Nov. 4 count?
December 5th, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Ranger,
Yes! The Nov 4 count, once at 100% should match the canvassed numbers and show Coleman’s 215 lead. The recount numbers will be whatever the are, with the challenged ballots outstanding.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Thanks for the explanation, Flash. I couldn’t figure it out. So to measure the gain or loss for the candidates, you need to look at the difference in the vote count on 11/4 vs last night.
So in those precincts, the clown was ahead by 4648 on 11/4 and is ahead by 4658 now, so he’s picked up 10. This suggests that the outstanding precincts went heavily for Coleman. Right?
December 5th, 2008 at 11:03 AM
“so he’s picked up 10. ”
Yes, that’s how I see it. But the Strib does something different, and the PiPress different yet. And with over 6000 outstanding challenged ballots, unless the final recount lead is well over 1000, we won’t know anything more tonight then we did a few days after the election.
I used to be a leans IRV kind of guy, but if folks can’t even color in circles, imagine the nightmare of explaining to them how to rank candidates.
I hope the legislature considers a runoff process like Georgia.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Flash: Runoff is bad! Bad Bad Bad! You get to vote ONE time per election. A protest vote for a no chance in a million candidate has consequences. It means that you chose to use you one and only vote on that candidate. Runoff encourages people to vote for all nature of folly because they going to get a mulligan thanks to the inevitable runoff, especially here in MN where we have a bizzare love of 3rd party candidates. Anything that encourages people to take their vote even less seriously, and to have even less accountability for their actions, is a bad idea. Every yahoo who voted for Barkley now has to live with the consequences of that action.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Can you imagine teaching IRV to a Democrat?
Sheeeesh, impossible.
December 5th, 2008 at 2:00 PM
A runoff only occurs in a contested election.
Norm won the election outright, the only reason we had this recount was purely administrative.
If it had been a dead tie I can see a runoff, but Norm won the election on Nov.4th. The results were never contested (except by franken moonbat members who would have cried no matter how much he lost by).
December 5th, 2008 at 2:02 PM
See how things are settling back to the original numbers, with the challenged ballots the difference between Nov 4 and Recount numbers
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With 99.93 ballots counted:
Nov. 4 Ballots Cast for Norm Coleman 1210995
Nov. 4 Ballots Cast for Al Franken 1210285
RECOUNT Coleman (as recounted) 1208344 41.41
RECOUNT Franken (as recounted) 1207657 41.38
December 5th, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Audacity.. do you think there are ANY Franken supporters who are not moonbat members, or is it a clean sweep?
What about moderate Democrats like me, who want our Senator to fight for middle class families? Does that make me a moonbat member?
December 5th, 2008 at 2:30 PM
“Norm won the election outright”
Really, can you produce the certificate of Election.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:43 PM
how ca nyou think otherwise flash..he won the recount…. after the challenged ballots have been resolved..and the absentee ballots the result will bwe the same….assclown will go home
December 6th, 2008 at 11:15 PM
“how can you think otherwise flash”
Cause its the truth
“he won the recount….”
Recounts not over till all ballots are counted
“after the challenged ballots have been resolved”
Franken may just pull ahead
“and the absentee ballots”
Which will be the deciders
“the result will be the same”
Same as what?!?
“assclown will go home”
Actually I still think Sen Coleman wins, so the assclown will get to go back to DC. But I prefer calling him Senator, so not sure why you disrespect him like that!