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To: billva; TYVets
My apologies to you, billva. I now see that the headline on this thread was very misleading, because the tally on the Minnesota Secretary of State site does not include one precinct, which is in all likelihood the one in which the "missing ballots" occurred.

The source of the discrepency between the SOS site and the Star Tribune site is that while the SOS does not include any tallies from that Dinkytown precinct, the Star Tribine includes the original tally. Therefore, the real recount margin is undoubtedly much closer to Coleman +192, pending adjustments that might be made as a result of the Dinkytown precinct recount.

BTW, the "lost ballots" have not been found despite a very thorough search of the premises where they were believed to have been "lost", and the Dem bureaucrat in charge there seems to have given up the pursuit. Since the "lost ballots" were included in the original tally, It would seem as if they are included in the Star Tribune tally. So if they are not "found" for the recount, it seems as if Franken will lose a net of 37 votes from the recount tally, which would put Coleman at about +229 when the recount tally is complete.

All this confusion seemed to have arisen because the SOS proclaimed the recount at the precincts over, while the SOS site did not include the tally from the one problem precinct.

45 posted on 12/06/2008 10:21:24 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks, let’s hope Coleman continues to hold on.


46 posted on 12/09/2008 3:25:26 PM PST by billva
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