Even more ballots misplaced in Minnesota III

Detroit Lakes Online has this story:

DETROIT LAKES — The math didn’t add up during the first day of the U.S. Senate recount in Becker County on Monday.
In addition to 61 ballots that weren’t counted on Election Day on Nov. 4, there were four less ballots counted from Holmesville Township during the recount than was reflected on Election Day.

“It’s a very unfortunate situation,” Becker County Auditor-Treasurer Ryan Tangen said.

He said that the ballots were overlooked and not transferred to the counting area on election night. They did arrive at the county courthouse by 8 p.m., Tangen said.
Fifty-three of the ballots came from mail-in precincts and eight were absentee ballots.

Those missing ballots, if allowed to stand, will play a huge part in a race in which 215 votes separate Norm Coleman and Al Franken.

Coleman carried Becker County by 2,400 votes in the original count.

Tangen said that the advice given to him by the Becker County Attorney’s and the Minnesota Secretary of State’s offices were to count the 61 ballots. . . .