November 7 at 1:24PM
Al Franken Gains Votes Due to Spell Check
The neck-and-neck Norm Coleman/Al Franken battle for one of Minnesota's senate seats just got a little bit tighter…
A typo in Pine County got fixed Thursday, giving Al Franken 100 more votes and tightening Minnesota's unresolved Senate race even tighter. Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's lead over Democrat Al Franken stood at 236 votes Thursday night.
With nearly 2.9 million ballots cast, the difference between the top two candidates is about one one-hundredth of a percentage point.
That is just rediculous! To think taht something as smal and insigniacant as a typo could have the poewr to affect nationul policy.
Theirs just no excuse for that. Someone shuold be fired.
Check you're work, people!
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@bloojax
The 100 vote typo, as reported in the press, was a worker who wrote down 24 instead of 124 on a vote tally report.
No doubt the typos were the work of Democrats; they are, after all, the party who brought the coveted butterfly ballots to Florida.
did Minnesota have other bad spellers counting or tracking votes?
Paul VE – if that is the only error you spotted, I hope you weren't counting any votes.
How the hell does a typo account for a 100-vote swing? What – did they accidentally misspell Al Franken's name as "Norm Coleman?"
Duh! Dennis was being sarcastic when he deliberately typed, "That is just rediculous! To think taht something as smal and insigniacant as a typo could have the poewr to affect nationul policy. Theirs just no excuse for that. Someone shuold be fired. Check you're work, people!"
Paul's "Doctor, heal thyself" comment just shows that Paul has no sense of wit.
@Paul VE
Congratulations on getting the joke.
Have you noticed how much Al Franken looks like Bill O'Reilly in the photo above?
"Check you're work, people!"? Are you serious? How about "Check your work, people!"? Doctor, heal thyself…
Why are you looking at me that way in your post Denis? What are you saying?