Local U.S. Senate Recount Schedule
The recount begins Wednesday in the race for the U.S Senate seat between Al Franken and Norm Coleman.
Pine County
Where: County Board Room, Pine City
When: Wednesday, Nov. 19th @ Noon
Chisago County
Where: County Gov’t Center, Center City
When: Wednesday, Nov. 19th @ 9 a.m.
Kanabec County
Where: County Courthouse, Mora
When: Friday, Nov. 21st @ 9 a.m.
Isanti County
Where: County Government Center, Cambridge
When: Thursday, Nov. 20th @ 8:30 a.m.
PC Mom, on November 19th, 2008 at 2:03 pm:
Frankin, just give up. Can you say “Grasping at straws” and wasting tax payer dollars.
pcexpatriate, on November 21st, 2008 at 1:20 pm:
Ok, “PC Mom,” if that is your real name, Franken is hardly grasping at straws. If you were following the election, or know anything about how MN elections work, the losing candidate is entitled to a recount if the margin of victory is somewhere less than a twentieth. I think Coleman “won” by less than a thousand votes, and since there were about 2.5 million votes, the margin of victory is less than one in 2.5 thousand, which is something like .04%, or one twenty-fifth of a per cent. This obviously facilitates a recount. It’s not grasping at straws, you’d have to be a complete idiot not to try a recount when you lose by less than one twenty-fifth of the popular vote and tie the electoral vote. The only reason the whole “tax payer dollars” thing is an issue is because Coleman brought it up because he and other right-wingers are afraid of losing. And he has a right to be.