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Think You Can Run the Minnesota Recount? Here's a Test

Minnesota Public Radio has been photographing ballots in the Franken/Coleman Senate recount to illustrate just how hard it is to determine voter intent. What do you do, for example, when someone votes for Franken but also writes in "Lizard People"? What do you do when someone votes for Franken, but then draws an arrow to the Coleman circle? What do you do when someone doesn't mark a circle, but puts a scribble next to one of the candidates' names? Take a look for yourself here, and vote on whether each ballot should count here. (You know who could run this recount? David Corn. He has experience from Florida in 2000.)

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Did anyone else notice that in Day 2 Ballot #4 where the voter marked Coleman but wrote in "Bachman" (without marking the bubble) the majority of people voted to reject the ballot as a double vote; but in Day 1 Ballot #5 where the voter marked Franken but wrote in "Lizard People" (and also didn't mark that the bubble) the majority of people voted to accept the ballot? Some problems with consistency of standards, eh?

Posted by: J on 11/20/08 at 9:00 PM Respond

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