Talk:Coleman appeals Franken victory in Minnesota Senate race

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There's an error here. Your reporter seems to have conflated two separate issues. The 132 votes from Dinkytown were counted once, then placed in an envelope marked 1/5, which was lost or stolen. Coleman is not alleging otherwise. He is asking that these votes not be counted, although there was no indication of any problem with the machine count. No one took this part of Coleman's case seriously. Coleman is also claiming an ill-defined number of votes were double-counted due to failure to properly label duplicates. It is widely accepted that this happened in some cases, and that Franken probably gained from it. However the net Franken gain is probably well under 100 votes, not enough to make a difference.