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LATEST U.S. SENATOR NORM COLEMAN NEWS
12.15.08-2200: Official Coleman Campaign PR: The following statement was released by Fritz Knaak, Senior Counsel for Coleman for Senate, tonight regarding the Minnesota Supreme Court’s decision to hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider the Coleman campaign’s request for uniform, statewide standards for the counting of absentee ballots in the so-called “fifth pile.” “The scheduling of a hearing by the Supreme Court on Wednesday effectively ensures that our concerns about the uniform treatment of rejected ballots will be heard. The fact is, without a clear directive from the Supreme Court, there could be more than 130 different standards being applied to rejected absentee ballots being placed into the so-called ‘fifth pile.’ Our goal and objective remains consistent: move forward with the recount and ensure that legal standards are applied to each rejected absentee ballot being placed into the fifth-pile are consistent in every location throughout the state of Minnesota. Without clear, uniform standards, there is the serious risk that Minnesota voters.

12.15.08: Coleman Campaign Calls for Upholding "One Ballot, One Vote" Right
- - Franken Campaign Wants Some Votes to Count More Than Others
ST. PAUL – Coleman Campaign Senior Counsel Fritz Knaak today called upon state officials to ensure some ballots are not counted twice by rejecting duplicate ballots. Duplicate ballots were created on Election Day when some ballots were misfed or jammed into machines and local election officials created duplicate ballots to replace those that were damaged. In a number of cases, it is clear from comparing election night and recount totals that the duplicates were never labeled as such, thus the voters who cast those ballots had their votes count twice.
      “The concept of ‘one ballot, one vote’ is an inviolate right that must be upheld to protect the sanctity and integrity of Minnesota’s elections. No one’s vote should count more than anyone else’s,” said Knaak. “Unfortunately, through no fault of the voter, we believe there are a significant number of these situations in which the original ballot and the duplicate ballot are both being counted -- in other words, one voter gets two votes. That devalues the vote of everyone else. The Franken campaign wants to simply accept the double counts; however, once those ballots are put in the pile, as the Franken campaign wants, they are part of the count. To protect the right of every voter in Minnesota, we are asking the Supreme Court to straighten out the problem of including both duplicate ballots and original ballots in the final recount number.”

OTHER NOTES:
1. A GOP group, “Minnesota Majority - Standing Together for Traditional Values” has already filing a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice over voting irregularities and MN SOS Mark “Former? Communist & Soros Puppet” Ritchie’s conduct.
2. If necessary, there is a GOP related FOTC lawsuit, in behalf of the Coleman campaign, that will be filed in Federal Court.
      Let us remember that this is an election for a Federal congressional Senate seat. The GOP has won 3 out of 4 post-Nov 4th, U.S. Congress recounts, special or delayed elections. The GOP et. al. is not going to allow the Soros Shadow Party, a corrupt commie bastard MN SOS, and some local power grab highly misinformed fools, to steal this very critical election. Further, since elected in 2006, Mark Ritchie’s conduct is ripe for Federal prosecution. And, it has not gone unnoticed by “certain individuals” with the power to do something about it. ~ 12.15.08: FlA

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1 posted on 12/16/2008 4:47:16 AM PST by flattorney
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To: flattorney
What is the make-up of the MN Supreme Court? Who appointed most of the Judges?

That will tell you where this is going.

Clearly, the dems plan to steal the election in marxist, totalitarian fashion any way they can.

IT'S TIME FOR A RETURN TO THE OLD SCHOOL

2 posted on 12/16/2008 4:51:48 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: flattorney

Good. It’s about darned time Republicans stood up to these crooks. They’ve been getting by with their thievery long enough and we’re not going to put a stop to it until we get prosecutions.


3 posted on 12/16/2008 4:54:26 AM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma (When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule the people mourn. Proverbs 29;2)
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To: flattorney
His only “accomplishment” in life was video taping sex with Arianna “The Greek Leona Helmsley” Huffington.

Wait...what? I can't be reading that right.

4 posted on 12/16/2008 4:59:06 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: flattorney

“Washington needs a breath of fresh air. Al Franken is a great man, a great activist, and will be a great leader in the U.S. Senate”

Why not, if Ted Kaufmann can be a Senator, anybody can do the job. The guy replacing Old Joe Biden makes 0bama look like a Conservative. He had an office next to me at DuPont and we went to the same church.

Those were the only things we had in common. I remember him as an opinionated, unabashed Liberal who would not listen to anybody who disagreed with him. At church, he never thought twice about interrupting Mass so he could set up guitars and drums for his rock and roll service.

So Al will fit in with the rest of the clowns in Versailles.


6 posted on 12/16/2008 5:16:11 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
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To: flattorney

What’s the problem?

Alec Baldwin is the PERFECT character witness for Mr. Franken.


7 posted on 12/16/2008 5:27:28 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: flattorney
I don't know that losing this seat would make things that much worse for republicans. With Pelosi/Reed/Obama defining democrats with unpopular policy (the stuff they really believe in not campaign on) and Franken and the corrupt democrat to be named later becoming the public face of the party, republicans would have a lot to run on in 2010.
8 posted on 12/16/2008 6:25:55 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a blessing to live in the Ozarks.)
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9 posted on 12/16/2008 10:39:33 AM PST by MplsSteve
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