Recount: Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken shrinks

[azurnoir]

By day's end, with about 18 percent of the vote recounted, Coleman continued to lead Franken -- but by only 174 votes, notably narrower than the unofficial gap of 215 votes at which the recount had begun. Franken's gain owed much to a swing of 23 votes in the Democratic stronghold of St. Louis County -- the result of faintly marked ballots and older optical scanners that failed to read the marks.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/34736454.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUs

Great news :toast: :bounce:

[dysfunctional press]

1. if the same trend continues, it doesn't look that good for Al...

with 18% of the vote counted, he's only made up 10.7% of the difference.

:shrug:

[ColbertWatcher]

2. I think it depends where Franken made the gains. n/t

[dysfunctional press]

7. that's why i qualified it with 'if the trend continues'...hopefully it will change.

is there any word of how things went today? :shrug:

[Breeze54]

3. This is driving me INSANE!!!!!

Gheesh!! 23 votes?

And I remember someone saying in GD-P, that their vote didn't matter.

:wtf:

EVERY VOTE COUNTS!!!!!!!

[Hekate]

4. My County Supervisor won by 7 (seven) votes on a recount, after initially losing.

Every vote counts. And every vote should be counted.

Hekate

[chelsea0011]

5. What I don't understand about these optical scanners is why, in my

district where we use the same type of scanners, that if a ballot has a wierd mark somewhere or can't be read the scanner spits it out back and can't be counted?

[liberal N proud]

6. 18% of 3,199,134 (registered voters)

They have counted 575,844 ballots

Hurry up already