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Reply #8: I personally don't think Coleman won the first time when he faced Mondale. [View All]

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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-11-09 08:22 AM
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8. I personally don't think Coleman won the first time when he faced Mondale.
I think he was elected by the optiscans (I believe ES&S) that were used in his election in 02. As I understand it, Mondale had a 5-point lead in some good pre-election polls and yet lost, just beyond the percentage that called for a mandatory recount. And this was before the greater awareness of computer election problems, when nobody was paying attention at all.

I could be wrong of course but nobody can prove me wrong. When computers are used to count the vote w/o mandatory and robust audits, there's no verification and no way to verify short of a recount as happened in the Franken election.

The optiscans as used in MN have paper and we can be thankful for that, but just because there's paper doesn't mean it's going to be used and it wasn't in the Mondale loss in 02.
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