Coleman - If he was Franken he wouldn't request a recount [View All]

[sniffa]

Well isn't that special.

As a recount looms over Minnesota's hotly contested Senate race, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) said this morning that if he were in the shoes of opponent Al Franken, he would refuse a recount and let a "healing process" begin for Minnesotans. Coleman declared victory in the race at an early morning press conference.

Although the final tally has not yet been released, unofficial tallies report a 400 to 700 vote margin in Coleman’s favor– well within the requirements for a recount under Minnesota state law.

“If you asked me what I would do, I would step back,” Coleman told reporters, calling Franken’s likelihood of overturning enough votes
to win “extremely, extremely, extremely remote.”

“I just think the healing process is so important,” Coleman said. “The
possibility of any change of this magnitude in the voting system we
have is so remote.” Franken said in a statement this morning that he would seek a recount of the nearly three million votes cast, although Coleman questioned if “such a step is worth the tax dollars it would take to process.”

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie says he expects the recount could take several weeks to complete.

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybek criticized Coleman’s declaration of victory, telling KSTP-TV that, until the recount is complete, “we won’t know what Minnesotans wanted.”

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/11/05/coleman-i-wouldnt-request-recount/