Its easy to win a recount when “magical votes” appear in the trunk of poll workers car. From the Wall Street Journal (Wednesday, November 12):
For example, there was Friday night’s announcement by Minneapolis’s director of elections that she’d forgotten to count 32 absentee ballots in her car. The Coleman campaign scrambled to get a county judge to halt the counting of these absentees, since it was impossible to prove their integrity 72 hours after the polls closed. The judge refused on grounds that she lacked jurisdiction.
Up in Two Harbors, another liberal outpost, Mr. Franken picked up an additional 246 votes. In Partridge Township, he racked up another 100. Election officials in both places claim they initially miscommunicated the numbers. Odd, because in the Two Harbors precinct, none of the other contests recorded any changes in their vote totals.
According to conservative statistician John Lott, Mr. Franken’s gains so far are 2.5 times the corrections made for Barack Obama in the state, and nearly three times the gains for Democrats across Minnesota Congressional races. Mr. Lott notes that Mr. Franken’s “new” votes equal more than all the changes for all the precincts in the entire state for the Presidential, Congressional and statehouse races combined (482 votes).
I highly doubt that citizens only went to cast their votes for Franken and not Obama. The odds of this are too unlikely for their not to be any foul play.
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I won’t bore you with the long and partisan details coming from “the other side” – aka the liberal blogs – but I will say that it is not at all unusual to have large shifts after the unofficial counts are reported as counties verify their totals for the official report. Here’s a brief snippet:
So it appears the totals swing quite significantly on a per-race basis.
Realize, most of these changes are reporting errors – reversing numbers or reading from the wrong column; they aren’t counting errors (mostly).
is they do play all kinds of games in vote counting – so they assume everyone else does so too. I think we need to watch what everyone does very very carefully, but lacking some clear evidence to the contrary – assume it’s good.
Or so say the analysts.
MN does a very thorough hand recount, and it will take them another month to complete it. It’s well-monitored and both sides are ramping up their recount staff as we sit here gabbing.
This is an idiotic post.
All it shows is that running elections is not an exact science. The same thing happened in Washington in 2004. A conservative judge found nothing wrong, and nothing wrong is occurring here.
Try to think outside the ‘pub box before posting drek like this.