Most Minn. Senate 'undervotes' are from Obama turf

[Liberal_in_LA]

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Most Minn. Senate 'undervotes' are from Obama turf
By BRIAN BAKST – 3 hours ago

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An Associated Press analysis of votes in the tight, still-to-be decided race for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota shows that most ballots lacking a recorded choice in the election were cast in counties won by Democrat Barack Obama.

The finding could have implications for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, who are headed for a recount separated by the thinnest of margins — a couple of hundred votes, or about 0.01 percent.

About 25,000 ballots statewide carried votes for president but not for the Senate race. Although some voters might have intentionally bypassed the race, others might have mismarked their ballot, or optical scanning machines might have misread them.

A recount due to begin Nov. 19 will use manual inspection to detect such ballots.

Meanwhile, Coleman is using the state's open records law to ask Minnesota and all 87 counties for access to voting data and other records, questioning gains Franken has made since Election Day.

Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan complained of "statistically dubious and improbable shifts that are overwhelmingly accruing to the benefit of Al Franken."

The Coleman campaign cited a 100-vote gain that Franken picked up from Mountain Iron, in St. Louis County, on Thursday night.

[EconomicLiberal]

1. I'm feeling better about this recount every day.

Especially given our success in gaining votes after recounts in the past decade. And this is certainly good news for Al.

[DarthDem]

2. YES!! Nice!

I think Al is going to win this. And I think Abnorm does too - - hence his telling behavior.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

3. St Louis County is Iron Range territory

Definitely a Democratic stronghold.

[dflprincess]

4. The Secretary of State really slammed Coleman for the language

his team is using and for trying to plant the idea that something is wrong before the recount even starts. The kind of changes they're seeing in the vote totals now are the result of data entry errors on election night and they happen with every election - they just usually don't affect the outcome. There was quite a lot of vote shifting in the Klobuchar/Kennedy senate race in 2006 between election night and the day the election was certified. Nobody noticed because Klobuchar blew Kennedy out of the water in their race.

The 100 vote gain was because Franken's vote was entered as 24 instead of 124 in Partridge Township in Pine County. The error was entered at about 5:30AM Wednesday morning, by someone who had probably been working the election since 6 on Tuesday morning.

This is why the totals announced on election night are always refered to as "unofficial" audits are always done before the election is certified.

Normie is just a whiney weasel.