Today, in Minnesota, the recount begins in the Senate race. MinnPost.com has an excellent piece explaining the current situation and what will happen over the next several days. The recount will determine the winner:
“We do not know the winner . . . until the completion of the process,” [Secretary of State Mark] Ritchie said.Game on.
The Al Franken side, 215 votes behind in the tally of voting machines, countered with this: “The only person who has declared Norm Coleman the winner of anything is Norm Coleman,” said spokesman Andy Barr.
Perhaps it was Franken recount lawyer Marc Elias who put it most succinctly for those of you scoring at home: “The scoreboard reads 0-0 with 2.9 million to go.”
Recount starts at 40 sites, then adds 66 more
From Caledonia to Crystal, from Stillwater to Grand Rapids and at 40 sites in between beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, the recount starts ticking. In the following days, another 66 sites will be in play.
The secretary of state’s office will be posting results on its website at 8 p.m. after each day’s recount, and that will allow political junkies to track the tally of each hand-counted vote and compare it with previously reported election-machine votes from a specific precinct, said Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann.
Wednesday or Thursday night, staring at the results might not teach you much. But Gelbmann allowed that after a handful of days of recounting, “You’re going to start seeing trends of who’s picking up the most votes,” if anyone.
And, again, what's Joe Lieberman doing to help his fellow Democrat, Al Franken? During the campaign, Lieberman was helping Coleman. Just seems like the Democratic Senators should make sure all the Democratic Senators are helping their candidates before they ask the rest of us to pitch in.
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