Nate Silver reports that Norm Coleman's people are challenging ballots at an exponentially increasing rate. Maybe they're spooked by Nate's projection, which has Franken winning by 27 votes.
Update: The Franken camp has increased its challenge rate to keep pace with the Coleman crew, according to Nate's latest numbers (click through to 538 for latest graph).
Coleman now leads by only 172 votes, a net gain of 43 votes for Franken since the recount began.
The Franken camp warns that some ballots may still be missing.
This election will probably be decided by whether envelopes containing absentee ballots which haven't been opened, eventually are opened:
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Robert Marvin....was too ill to risk a long wait in line on Election Day, so he dutifully filled out an absentee ballot, only to discover Thursday that his vote never got counted.
Now his wife, Ruby Marvin, is hopping mad.
"Oh for cripes' sake," she said when a Star Tribune reporter told her that election officials said her husband's ballot had been rejected because he wasn't properly registered.
"We've lived here for five years and voted in every election," she said.
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If you want to help Al Franken sue to get ballots like that one counted, then please donate at his website:
www.alfranken.com
Posted by: Eric Jaffa | November 24, 2008 at 09:27 PM
Could you update the diagram to incorporate the latest challenge numbers?
Posted by: Alon Levy | November 25, 2008 at 05:07 PM