This is now the second time Republicans have been beaten in this kind of legal street fight. In 2004, Dino Rossi was ahead in the election-night count for Washington Governor against Democrat Christine Gregoire. Ms. Gregoire's team demanded the right to rifle through a list of provisional votes that hadn't been counted, setting off a hunt for "new" Gregoire votes. By the third recount, she'd discovered enough to win. This was the model for the Franken team.
Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them.
This country is beginning more and more to resemble a particularly corrupt banana republic.
Republicans are cowards.
Unfortunately this has been going on for a long time.
“Landslide” Lyndon John in Duvall County TX did it with the help of George Pharr. (1948)
It is still a crime, but they never seem to be called into question on this.
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Here is an explantion if you want to read it. I did not learn of this from this article:
http://blogs.chron.com/leonhale/2008/07/everything_looks_great_from_up_1.html
That race ended with Stevenson nursing a lead of a little over a hundred votes when a box in Jim Wells County mysteriously showed up six days late containing 202 ballots, 201 of which were for Johnson, giving him an 87 vote victory. Hence the nickname Landslide Lyndon. It was claimed later that most of those 202 ballots were from dead persons.
What was so amazing was not that the dead voted, but that they voted in alphabetical order!
The votes had allegedly been delivered by the Parr political machine in Duval and Jim Wells counties.
Except that these were the same court that rejected Coleman's attempts to stop the counting, claiming that his arguments were better suited to the contest phase.
It now appears that the game is to kick the can to the contest phase, and then in the contest phase say that it's too late because votes were counted.
-PJ
I hope that the National GOP wasn't advising Coleman because if they were they truly do not understand Socialist Democrats.
Another day, another stolen election. Yawn. It’s become commonplace. So commonplace that no one really cares anymore. I’m waiting for the big one though. I want to see how Obama manages to steal his second term and then overturn the constitution so he can have a third. That’s the political Superbowl!
*ping* for later - thanks for posting!
Let’s not forget sen. burris from IL. A corrupt senator from a corrupt state appointed by a corrupt governor. “zero” was up to his eyeballs in that conspiracy but it’s been buried and will never see the light of day.
No, he did lose the election by only winning the first time by 725! What does this say about Coleman? What does this say about what his views are that this election was this close to begin with! He did get jobbed but it should have never been that close in the first place.
Votes suddenly found! Reminds me of that Morgan silver dollar ad.
Nam Vet
Gregoire stole the election because the GOP law firm hire to contest the election was in t he back pocket of Gregoire and the Democrats. Davis Wright Tremaine (DWT) hired Gary Locke after he left office.
Don’t you find it interesting that DWT “forgot” to allege vote fraud in its initial complaint? Everyone knew there was vote fraud, yet DWT “inadvertently” missed that cause of action? Who could possibly believe that?
Besides that, Rossi had absolute proof of racketeering crimes committed by Gregoire and the WA Supreme Court yet refused to use that information because it would have also implicated some very powerful Republicans and their associates.