Minnesota update

We aren't even at the recount phase and Franken keeps gaining votes. Coleman's lead dropped to 236 votes last night when election officials discovered a mistake in Partridge Township's numbers.

Just as Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was explaining to reporters the recount process in one of the narrowest elections in Minnesota history, an aide rushed in with news: Pine County's Partridge Township had revised its vote total upward -- another 100 votes for Democratic candidate Al Franken, putting him within .011 percentage points of Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman.

The reason for the change? Exhausted county officials had accidentally entered 24 for Franken instead of 124 when the county's final votes were tallied at 5:25 Wednesday morning.

"That's why we have recounts," Ritchie said, surveying the e-mail sent in from the county auditor. "Human error. People make mistakes."

They haven't even got to the recounting and they're finding errors that amount to hundreds of votes, which is the margin. Coleman still thinks no recount should go on? Of course, he still wants the healing process to go forth. That's what guys who are cut and bleeding votes want: healing. .011%.