Al Franken Senate Victory in Sight for MN Race
Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | Power & Politics
On November 4th, 2008 nearly 3 million Minnesotan voters cast ballots in the race for Senate between Al Franken (D) and incumbent Norm Coleman (R). After all precincts reported their tallies, Coleman lead Franken by 725 votes.
By Thursday morning after districts had checked their reporting and corrected some typographical errors Coleman’s lead dwindled to a mere 438. ( one official improperly recorded Franken’s vote at his polling station effectively shorting him a full 100 votes )
Currently officials are struggling to assure that each vote cast has been counted. There are irregularities being reported in a number of districts including urban Minneapolis (heavily leaning Democratic district) Apparently stations there ran out of Minnesota’s same-day registration forms and voters ostensibly cast provisional ballot pending confirmation of their eligibility to vote.
Once these votes are counted it can reasonibly be inferred that Al Franken will overtake Coleman and emerge the victor rendering Norm Coleman a lame duck Senator.
In the face of this news, the desperate Norm Coleman is calling for Franken to concede. Franken simply prefers to let the voters decide.
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