Minnesota-post election certification *Coleman had 54,000 MORE votes*.......in 2002 [View All]

[underpants]

The night that Sen. Norm Coleman defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale in the 2002 U.S. Senate race he piled up more than 1,062,000 votes.

But when all the ballots were certified two weeks later, Coleman had 54,000 more votes.

It's TRUE.

Between election night voting numbers, and two weeks later when the State Canvassing Board certified official results, Coleman gained 54,429 votes. Mondale's vote total also went up 63,192 votes, but not enough to beat Coleman.

After Election Day, county auditors compare voting machine numbers with paper ballots cast by rechecking vote totals and correcting arithmetic. They count absentee ballots -- adding and subtracting for all the candidates.

This year, the claims that Franken's getting all the extra votes and Coleman's getting none is not true.

The REALITY…

Just like other years, the vote totals are fluctuating for all the same reasons. Franken is winning some and Coleman is winning others.

However, Franken is winning more and Coleman's lead has shrunk to a couple hundred votes to make this the closest U.S. Senate race in Minnesota history.

http://wcco.com/local/senate.recount.ballots.2.863038.html