Franken gains in Minnesota count

[babsbunny]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7743146.stm

Democrat Al Franken has gained votes in his Minnesota Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman as officials conduct a statewide manual recount.

At the end of the first count, Mr Coleman led Mr Franken by 215 votes, but with nearly half of the votes recounted, his lead had slipped to 145.

Officials have until 5 December to recount some 2.9 million votes.

The manual recount was automatically triggered because Mr Coleman's winning margin was less than 0.5% of the vote.

[Seen the light]

1. My dad won a school board race once with over 5 times as many votes

Just to put it into perspective how close this race really is. A regular rural board of education race had a margin over 5 times what it currently is in the Minnesota Senate race.

[annabanana]

2. I seems the current count is Franken down by 162

(at least according to this sitee on a county by county basis)
http://ww2.startribune.com/news/metro/elections/returns/2008/recount/msenco.html

[tabatha]

4. 120 now - they seem to be updating quite fast. 64% counted.

[lonestarnot]

5. Go Al Go! 64% humming right along, good.

[Trajan]

3. I think Im going to wait until near the end of the process to consider it ...

Too many changing numbers for now ...