Posted on 12/20/2008 11:00:26 AM PST by BGHater
Democrat Al Franken’s campaign predicted Saturday that the comedian would prevail over incumbent Norm Coleman (R) by a margin of 35 to 50 votes in the hotly contested Minnesota Senate race.
Franken’s campaign said that, after the state’s Board of Canvassers on Tuesday finishes its review and reallocation of ballots challenged by both campaigns during a hand recount of the contested race, it would emerge victorious by several dozen votes.
“We now have enough data that I can say with a very high degree of confidence that Al Franken will win this count and be seated as the next senator from Minnesota,” Franken attorney Marc Elias told reporters Saturday.
Elias also criticized a suit filed by the Coleman campaign before the Minnesota Supreme Court to prevent the Canvassing Board from including so-called “duplicate” ballots in the final tally. Duplicate ballots are created to mirror original ballots if they are damaged on election night. The Coleman campaign has alleged that those duplicate ballots were counted along with the original ballots, resulting in roughly 150, according to Coleman estimations, “double” votes.
“There is no evidence that any of the ballots were counted twice. None,” Elias said, adding that Coleman’s campaign had apparently reversed course during the recount, when it had opposed a review of duplicate ballots.
“Their position going into the recount was that duplicated ballots should be handled the way they were,” Elias told reporters.
Though Coleman had maintained a lead throughout the entirety of the contested election and recount, Franken took the lead for the first time during the review of challenges Friday. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s running tally of the recount Saturday morning, Franken currently leads Coleman by 251 votes.
The Coleman campaign said it was skeptical of the Franken figures, adding that local elections officials in Minneapolis had also expressed concern over the possible double-counting of duplicate ballots.
(sigh)
And we will keep counting and finding votes until that happens too.
Keep counting until the “D” wins is today’s way.
Why the “R” don’t stop it is beyond me.
Will Carter be certifying the vote?
>>>>Al Franken’s campaign predicted Saturday that the comedian would prevail over incumbent Norm Coleman (R) by a margin of 35 to 50 votes<<<<<
Utterly disgusting.
Will Coleman demand another recount? Or just roll over and play Republican?
Yucchh.
REDO!
Based on the mess with absentee ballots....I’d like to go ahead and just outlaw them completely unless you are a state department worker or DOD military guy. I’ve never seen such a mess.
And as for the way that the state handled this affair....there are more competent folks working for the SEC (sadly) than the state election board.....but just barely.
This one will be in the courts until the rats find a lib/rat judge.
Forgot to mention, those Minnesotans who voted for this disgraceful person Franken as their US SENATOR (!!!) are completely reprehensible.
The lunatics are now running the asylum.
It seems that the modern Rino party is perfectly happy with the way Dims are running things,after all they have been taking us in the same direction for quite a while.
Redo with purple ink no mail in ballots all paper and let idiot savants do the count
purple ink is for the voters fingers
I don't even think there's an asylum anymore....
Based on the mess with absentee ballots....I’d like to go ahead and just outlaw them completely unless you are a state department worker or DOD military guy. I’ve never seen such a mess.
Do you realize that many states and counties are going 100 percent to vote by mail, which is tantamount to everyone voting by absentee ballot? They are doing this for reasons of cost and convenience, often with the approval of Republicans. Republicans generally favor absentee voting and vote by mail because it encourages seniors to vote in higher numbers, and they ususlly vote majority Republican.
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