| Happy Monkey |
02-04-2009 06:04 PM |
And there you have more:
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The Minnesota election court has just handed down a major ruling, completely denying Norm Coleman's motion for summary judgment that would have opened up and counted a set of roughly 4,500 rejected absentee ballots that his campaign insists were wrongly rejected and ought to be counted.
Earlier today, the court similarly rejected Franken's attempt to have the ballots set aside entirely and to limit Coleman to a pool of 654 ballots, which at the time the Coleman camp was hailing as a major victory that will ensure votes are counted. But it turns out it's not that easy.
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If it turns out that all of the ballots were incorrectly rejected, Coleman would have to beat Franken by almost 5% in them. If 3000 were incorrectly rejected, that number goes over 7%. If it is 1000 - still very high - Coleman would have to get more than 22% more of them than Franken. And, just to go to the other extereme, if it were 227, Coleman would have to get them all. ( Math from here. YMMV on Kos, but math is math.)
It's just a tactic to keep the Senate Democrats as far below 60 as possible as long as possible. |
