Nothing much happening today — everyone’s waiting for the remaining counties to start counting, which they will tomorrow. As it is, there are so many challenged ballots that have been set aside for review that even when the initial recount is done, nothing will be settled until the challenged ballots are examined, which won’t be until this coming Wednesday. Nate Silver’s done an analysis of the precinct returns, and now predicts that, when the dust settles, Franken will win by a margin of twenty-seven (27) votes. If true, that will be even closer than Christine Gregoire’s winning margin in the 2004 Washington state governor’s race.
While we wait for the Minnesota Senate recount to resume, here’s a little factoid from the Georgia Senate race runoff:
Over 12,000 RNC-generated runoff absentee ballots in Cobb and DeKalb Counties in Georgia were rejected because they weren’t signed. Hey, aren’t Republicans supposed to be superior beings who never ever mess up their ballots? Or was this a failed effort to do some ballot-box stuffing?
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“Over 12,000 RNC-generated runoff absentee ballots in Cobb and DeKalb Counties in Georgia were rejected because they weren’t signed. Hey, aren’t Republicans supposed to be superior beings who never ever mess up their ballots? Or was this a failed effort to do some ballot-box stuffing?”
Actually these were “requests” for absentee ballots…not actual submitted ballots. But it raises the question if third-parties may have been out to bolster participation by submitting requests to registered Republicans in nursing homes, senior housing, or near 100% Republican gated retirement communities, etc. That’s assuming a “best case scenario”…that these people actually intended to vote in person and would receive a duplicate ballot.
Of course, perhaps these requests are for people that have since moved, and someone else intend to fill in the ballot. If the person doesn’t show up to vote the ballot might “get through” on a forged signature. Or it might be an effort to disenfranchise those who intend to vote in person.
The SoS of Georgia should be required to investigate if there is a pattern to these unusual requests by actually contacting the voters…seeing if they are alive/resident in Georgia, and whether they actually made a request. If they didn’t then some sort of shenanigans are up.
If Nate Silver is even remotely close (and everything about this race is remote, the margins of error are significantly larger than the predicted margins of victory), he will be regarded as a Hari Seldon made real.
I’m ready for to worship a new deity. The bloom is already off the Obama rose.
No Norm. I’ll take Al and, of course, Nate forever!