Monday, November 10, 2008

Still Waiting for the Fat Lady to Sing

Coleman's Lead Shrinks To 206 Votes

ST. PAUL (WCCO) ― The margin in Minnesota's unresolved Senate race has gotten tighter again in the latest figures reported to the secretary of state.Republican incumbent Norm Coleman's lead over Democrat Al Franken stands at 206 votes as of Monday afternoon. It had been 221 votes in tallies that are still considered unofficial.County canvassing boards are meeting to certify their results, a week ahead of the state canvassing board.The one-hundredth of 1 percent difference between the two candidates will trigger an automatic recount that won't start until next week.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the update! I had forgotten to check the TC news sites for a few days. I copied and pasted your post into an e-mail to #1 son in New York. I know he would want to know.

Anonymous said...

The news has mentioned the nbr of ballots that did not have any vote for the senate position...thought was people just forgot everything other than the BIG vote...but I wonder how many people chose NOT to vote for either one because of the nature of the campaign ... that it was a "vote" against both Coleman and Frankin? Whadda think?
pond-ering fish person

Debra said...

Now it's about 1/2 that! Apparently there were a huge number of Ramsey cnty ballots challenged-- many by Coleman's crew who threw the red flag for any voter who selected "John McCain" and "Al Frankin". :)

Did you check out MPR's "how would you call this ballot" choices? (mpr.org)