"Your Vote Doesn't Matter"
Nov. 19th, 2008 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerOut of about 2.9 million votes in total. Amazing.
Opening Seals, Sorting Ballots: Minnesota's Senate Recount Begins - Star Tribune - 19 Nov 08
"The recount is required under state law because the margin between Coleman and Franken was less than 0.5 percent. Coleman's 215-vote lead heading into the recount translates to 0.008 percent.
According to early recount results today from Ramsey County, Franken netted four votes. Coleman lost nine votes and Franken lost five, according to the first 17 precincts out of 104 to be recounted in St. Paul. County elections manager Joe Mansky wrote the new raw numbers with a marker on the board next to totals from Election Day.
Mansky said there were about a dozen challenged ballots. 'I guarantee I will win all those challenges 100 percent when they get to the State Canvassing Board,' he said. On most of those challenged ballots, the voters' intent was clear, but sometimes there were stray marks or the voter colored in outside the oval. 'We have some new observers, and they feel they have to challenge something,' Mansky said."
Opening Seals, Sorting Ballots: Minnesota's Senate Recount Begins - Star Tribune - 19 Nov 08
"The recount is required under state law because the margin between Coleman and Franken was less than 0.5 percent. Coleman's 215-vote lead heading into the recount translates to 0.008 percent.
According to early recount results today from Ramsey County, Franken netted four votes. Coleman lost nine votes and Franken lost five, according to the first 17 precincts out of 104 to be recounted in St. Paul. County elections manager Joe Mansky wrote the new raw numbers with a marker on the board next to totals from Election Day.
Mansky said there were about a dozen challenged ballots. 'I guarantee I will win all those challenges 100 percent when they get to the State Canvassing Board,' he said. On most of those challenged ballots, the voters' intent was clear, but sometimes there were stray marks or the voter colored in outside the oval. 'We have some new observers, and they feel they have to challenge something,' Mansky said."
