“According to current recount totals, Democrat Al Franken leads Republican Norm Coleman by a mere 312 votes. If the Minnesota Supreme Court rules in favor of Coleman later this month, which most analysts agree won’t be the case, an additional 4,000 votes will be added to the mix”
I don’t understand this statement.
The extra 4000 some votes are absentee ballots that were not counted in the original count or the recount. These votes were from Republican precincts that followed the rules, e.g., witness wasn’t a registered voter, no signature or something like that. However, in the democratic precincts, absentee ballots that had (no signature, no witness etc,) were counted. All Norm is saying is that if you count ballots in some precincts you should count them in all precincts.
How simple is that?
Coleman’s case before the court is that 4000 challenged votes should be counted.