WE'VE MOVED! Democratic Convention Watch is now at http://www.DemocraticConventionWatch.com
You can check the latest numbers on the recount here, and we'll move it up later in the day after they've done some more counting out in Minnesota.
Until then, you can play along, courtesy of Minnesota Public Radio.
Make your selection, and then see how others voted on whether to accept or reject challenged ballots.
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Richard Johnson · 854 weeks ago
cases, the majority judgment was huge: usually 80% or better. IMHO if these are typical of the challenged ballots in general, then the
"correct" decisions will be pretty obvious.
Peter Zenger 62p · 854 weeks ago
uplandpoet 69p · 854 weeks ago
KarenAnne 67p · 854 weeks ago
day 1 ballot 3 way outside bubble. I need you need to see the rest of ballot. If there are no other outside the bubble marks, no vote.
day 2 pencil I can see someone using a pencil if the pen ran dry, but what do they mean by improperly duplicated?
tmess2 70p · 854 weeks ago
I don't see how you can claim that putting "lizard people" in the write-in slot but not filling in the bubble is not an overvote (ballot 1-5) while also claiming that putting "Bachman" in the write-in slot without filling in the oval is an overvote (ballot 2-1). (By the statute, it looks like both are overvotes, but either both are or neither is.)
Likewise, I don't see how you can claim that a dot in the Barkley oval is as much a vote as a filled-in Franken oval (ballot 1-8) while also claiming that a filled-in Coleman oval trumps a partially filled-in Franken oval (ballot 1-7). (I think Coleman gets ballot 1-7 but Franken gets ballot 1-8).
I would have ruled in Franken's favor on 10 ballots and Coleman's on 5 giving Franken 5 votes and Coleman 3 votes.
tmess2 70p · 853 weeks ago
The two that look like the hardest calls are ballot 2-3 (the X factor) and ballot 1-11 (the underline, though I would call it the scratch-out). On the X factor, what drives my view of the ballot is that it looks like the only oval with an x through it is in the Senate race. That too me indicates an attempt to "cancel" the vote for Coleman. On the underline, I think it looks more like trying to scratch through the vote for Franken (leaving the vote for Coleman) as it starts at the center of the oval and goes mid-way through Franken's name before dropping down.
vwis · 853 weeks ago
vwis · 853 weeks ago
tmess2 70p · 853 weeks ago
Humboldtus · 852 weeks ago
KarenAnne 67p · 852 weeks ago
tmess2 70p · 852 weeks ago
The Secretary of State is giving the count solely from the precincts that have been recounted so far. So its "pre-recount" number is the number from only some of the precincts.
The news media is using a number that adjust the original total count by the changes from the precincts which have been re-counted so far. There number is what the final count would be if there were no changes in the precincts still to be counted.