Here is an excerpt from a Coleman campaign press release on how
they see the Minneosota recount:
First, the board is making steady progress as they work through
all of the challenged ballots. As you are likely aware,
because of the way this process has been structured, all of the
Franken challenges were considered first and now the board is
working their way through the Coleman challenges. Our
campaign brought around 1000 challenges before the board.
We are in the process of withdrawing approximately 400 of
those, and because the board did not have time to pull them out
of the line-up before today’s meeting, today you’ll likely see
the numbers flip upside down as a significant number of those
withdrawals go back into the Franken column. Because of
the timing, the withdrawn challenges that will provide
additional Coleman votes will not be awarded until later.
This will cause a temporary flip today that will be righted
once all the ballots have been reviewed and withdrawn
challenges reinstated, likely by tomorrow.
We fully and confidently expect that by the time the review
process is complete, the vote totals will right themselves, and
Senator Coleman will be ahead, as he has been throughout this
recount process.
We also are expecting the board to deal with the issue of
duplicate ballots soon. As we’ve said, we have serious
concerns about a number of instances throughout the state where
double counting has occurred, as both duplicates and the
originals these duplicates were intended to replace were
counted separately during the recount. The agreement
reached before the recount to deal with this issue has now been
proven not to work since numerous local officials did not
follow the statute election night. Attached is a brief
letter we sent to the canvassing board. It explains that
their current path will result in the double count of ballots,
which violates the tenet “one person, one vote”. We are
committed to making sure that no one person’s vote counts more
than any others. It’s a pretty simple concept, and it
needs to be protected.
