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Via the Strib: Senate race certification set for Monday with Franken up 225 votes

DFLer Al Franken won an impressive share Saturday of what may be the last ballots tallied in the U.S. Senate recount, boosting his unofficial lead over Sen. Norm Coleman to 225 votes heading into a Monday meeting where the state Canvassing Board will certify the final result of the race.

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Franken started the day with an unofficial lead of 49 votes. He achieved a net gain of 176 votes on Saturday.

For some time it has seemed quite likely that when the counting was done that Franken would win.

However, the process is likely not over, as Coleman plans to ask the state’s Supreme Court to some rejected absentee ballots to the count. Further, the Coleman camp is holding out the right to an additional legal challenge.

At the end of the day, it seems unlikely that any of that will work and that Coleman will lose.

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5 Responses to “Franken has 225 Vote Lead in Advance of Certification”

Leonard Says:
January 4th, 2009 at 11:07 am
My math was a bit off, but this seems to reinforce what I wrote the other day about the intangibles of seating or not seating Burris. According to 538:

So long as it looked as though the Minnesota race was going to take a long time to resolve, then, the Democrats really weren’t giving anything up by failing to seat Burris — his vote only really helps them if Franken has been seated too. Suddenly, however, with Franken having amassed a 225-vote lead on Norm Coleman, the landscape looks different.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall when Reid and Durbin meet with Burris.
qwerty Says:
January 4th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Coleman should stop pursuing the matter and “let the healing process begin” his words not mine.
Bill Says:
January 4th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
No better than to have a comedian for our senator because this whole election has been nothing but a bad joke. Neither Coleman or Fraken should get the Senate seat. It should be given to Dean Barkley the third party candidate. No-one will ever know for sure who really won.
eddieblue Says:
January 5th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Something smells in the State of Minnesota.

Time to run the general election again and have the National Guard stand by the ballott box.
Ruth Harvey Says:
January 5th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
If a recount/dispute has to happen, I am glad it’s in Minnesota. While messy, the process is transparent to the public and the election officials are generally nonpartisan and honest. Did you know that all the challenged (regular) ballots were actually posted on the internet for the electorate to look at? And that we have the “SAT” form of paper trail rather than Diebold machines with no evidence other than a computer printout? That’s what got recounted, along with the absentee ballots that the candidates themselves agreed were wrongfully rejected. Long live the Minnesota election process - no chads, no untraceable votes, etc.

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