Whoops! Coleman Maneuver To Gain Votes Actually Costs Him A Few

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Whoops! Coleman Maneuver To Gain Votes Actually Costs Him A Few
By Eric Kleefeld - December 19, 2008, 3:55PM


Here is an astoundingly funny blooper from today's Minnesota state canvass board meeting: The Coleman campaign tried out an interesting maneuver on ballot challenges in an attempt to regain some lost ground against Al Franken -- and then they only ended up losing more ground.

As we reported on Tuesday, the Coleman campaign asked to be able to reinstate some of the ballot challenges that they'd previously withdrawn before these meetings had begun. Basically, they wanted to use the benefit of now knowing what the board members' standards and precedents were on figuring out how to count the disputed ballots, and then apply that knowledge to some challenges they'd previously thought wouldn't work.

Well, we just went through a round of that, and the Coleman campaign successfully deprived Al Franken of...one vote. Then it was the Franken camp's turn, getting to try out the same thing -- and they were able to net four votes. And it was all the Coleman camp's idea!

This whole exercise isn't done yet, as the Coleman campaign is going to be coming back for another round of this. But it wasn't a good start.

... but in this case I absolutely LOVE Minnesota's Al Franken get closer and closer to kicking Iowa grad (shamefully) Norm Coleman's ass! I do make exceptions! :)

but minnesota is gaining in the recount!