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  • Senate recount: Order expected today on trial date (MN Franken/Coleman)

    01/16/2009 11:30:29 AM PST · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 9 replies · 873+ views
    StarTribune ^ | 1/16/09 | Mike Kaszuba
    A special judges panel held its first meeting with campaign lawyers today, a day after DFLer Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman dueled over how broad Coleman's legal challenge to the U.S. Senate recount should be and how long it should take. After the closed-door meeting in St. Paul, attorneys for both campaigns said the three-judge panel is likely to issue an order later today saying when the trial will begin and what the schedule will be. They also said a hearing will be held Wednesday at which the panel will consider Franken's motion to dismiss Coleman's lawsuit. One of...
  • Send in the Clown (Al “SorosBoy” Franken)

    01/09/2009 12:18:12 PM PST · by flattorney · 14 replies · 1,644+ views
    Front Page Magazine ^ | January 09, 2009 | Kathy Shaidle
    Send in the Clown It sounds like the plot of a 1990s straight-to-video Hollywood flick, but barring any dramatic developments – such as a successful court challenge by Republican opponent Norm Coleman – former “Saturday Night Live” cast member and comedian Al Franken will become the next U.S. Senator from Minnesota, likely on the strength of fraudulent votes. Franken’s fitness for office has been a matter of debate ever since he announced his candidacy in February 2007. Having made a career of “debunking” provocative statements made by famous conservatives in books like Rush Limbaugh Is a Big, Fat Idiot, The...
  • The Stealing the (MN U.S. Senate) Election Project (+ Latest Coleman News)

    01/08/2009 11:41:00 AM PST · by flattorney · 5 replies · 1,614+ views
    Frontpage Magazine/CNSNews ^ | January 08, 2009 | Fred Lucas
    The highly publicized vote recount in the Minnesota Senate race between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman is shining a light on Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, the state’s chief election officer. Ritchie is chairman of the Minnesota Canvassing Board, which on Monday certified that Franken received 225 more votes than Coleman did. Ritchie gave partial credit for his 2006 election to a liberal 527 group, the Secretary of State Project, which says its goal is to “ensure fair, clean elections” by replacing conservative secretaries of state with liberal Democrats. “I want to thank the Secretary of State...
  • Holy Ballot Box! Did BART to San Jose Just Pass? (17,000 provisional ballots still left to count)

    11/17/2008 12:52:06 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies · 842+ views
    NBC 11 ^ | Mon, Nov 17, 2008
    New numbers are expected Monday for the razor thin race to extend BART to San Jose. An unexpected surge in "yes" votes Friday pushed Measure B within .06 percent of passing. It requires a 66. 67 percent "yes" vote to pass. The "yes" vote is at 66. 61 percent. Election workers have 17,000 provisional ballots left to count. The measure would fund part of the BART extension with a one-eighth of cent sales tax increase in Santa Clara County. BART officials on Monday will showcase new parking payment machines that are supposed to make parking easier at a news conference...
  • Franken Asks State to Count Disqualified Ballots

    11/17/2008 12:03:28 PM PST · by Sub-Driver · 51 replies · 1,872+ views
    Franken Asks State to Count Disqualified Ballots @ 2:44 pm by Hill Staff Democrat Al Franken’s (Minn.) campaign filed a campaign with Minnesota’s Board of Canvassers Monday asking the organization in charge of certifying election results to include some originally disqualified provisional and absentee ballots in the vote totals. “There are, of course, legitimate reasons to reject absentee ballots,” said Franken spokesman Andy Barr in a conference call with reporters. “But it is clear that there are some absentee ballots that have been rejected in error. Those votes should be counted.” The Franken campaign said they expected their campaign and...
  • Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount under scrutiny

    11/14/2008 3:53:45 PM PST · by Kenny · 22 replies · 1,337+ views
    Duluth News Tribune ^ | November 13 2008 | Janna Goerdt
    As the official recount for Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seat slowly approaches, political wonks from across the country are wondering why so many of the miscounted or misreported ballots that have narrowed Norm Coleman’s lead over Al Franken were from Northeastern Minnesota. The Coleman campaign has questioned an additional 100 votes awarded to Franken from a Mountain Iron precinct, and bloggers have been blustering about a 246-vote swing to Franken that came out of Two Harbors.Lake County Auditor Steve McMahon took a little flak from a FOX News reporter over that Wednesday, the same day the Wall Street Journal ran an...
  • FRANKEN 'FIXES' STALK SENATE RACE

    11/14/2008 10:39:30 AM PST · by JohnRLott · 41 replies · 2,623+ views
    New York Post ^ | Thursday, November 13, 2008 | John R. Lott, Jr.
    IF Al Franken wins his Minnesota race, Democrats will get at least 58 US senators, giving them an effectively filibuster-proof majority. When Franken woke up on the day after the election, his GOP opponent, Sen. Norm Coleman, led by what seemed a relatively comfortable 725 votes. By that night, Coleman's lead had shrunk to 477. By Thursday, it was 336. Friday, 239. By late Sunday, the difference had gone to just 221. When counties finally certified the results on Monday, Coleman's lead had been cut to 206. A pickup of 519 votes over 5 days - pretty impressive when you...
  • Alaska Senate race tightens

    11/12/2008 5:02:26 PM PST · by Clintonfatigued · 10 replies · 617+ views
    Alaska Senate race tightens ^ | November 12, 2008 | Joel Connelly
    Hold onto your seatbelts: The U.S. Senate race in Alaska may be headed for a photo finish between incumbent GOP Sen. (and convicted felon) Ted Stevens and his Democratic challenger, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich. After a count of 28,000 absentee ballots, from all over the 49th state, Stevens' lead of 3,500 votes had been reduced to 971 votes. State officials expect to count 60,000 absentee votes. They will count an additional 35,000 provisional ballots and challenged ballots next week.
  • Republicans may gain a seat or two in Olympia [WA State]

    11/12/2008 4:57:33 PM PST · by sionnsar · 9 replies · 311+ views
    The News Tribune ^ | 11/12/2008 | BRAD SHANNON
    Republicans in the state House of Representatives expect a net gain of one to two seats once votes from the Nov. 4 election are completely tallied, marking the first GOP gain in that chamber in more than a decade. Ballots counted late Friday and over the weekend flipped the result in two House races that had been in Democrats’ favor. And one more still might flip into the GOP column. If those three trends hold up, House Republicans would remain in the minority in January, but Democrats would see their majority reduced by two to 61-37, according to Kevin Carns,...
  • Could recount referee’s résumé color the result? [MN-Frankenslime]

    11/11/2008 7:27:14 PM PST · by Gondring · 45 replies · 849+ views
    [Minneapolis] Star Tribune ^ | November 11, 2008 - 8:38 PM | KATHERINE KERSTEN, Star Tribune
    Let's assume the 32 disputed ballots in Minneapolis were legitimate. Let's assume the newly discovered 100 votes in Pine County -- all for Al Franken -- were just overlooked by a sleepy official, and the 100 votes found in Mountain Iron -- again, all for Franken -- were valid. Let's suppose the trickle of votes moving inexorably in Franken's direction is just a function of a normal process, as Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's office assures us. One fact remains troubling. The referee in Minnesota's hotly contested Senate race must act in a nonpartisan fashion, yet Ritchie came to office...
  • Tensions High in Minnesota Ahead of Senate Recount

    11/11/2008 3:55:08 PM PST · by Blood of Tyrants · 26 replies · 465+ views
    FoxNews ^ | 11/11/08 | Judson Berger
    With a mandatory recount set to begin next week, the Minnesota Senate race between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and his Democratic challenger, comedian Al Franken, has never been more serious. Officials say the winner will probably not be known until mid-December, at the earliest. Both campaigns are watching the vote count closely, with Republicans raising questions about the integrity of a process that so far has squeezed Coleman's lead from about 725 votes the day after Election Day to just 206 one week later. "I call it the bleed," Fritz Knaak, Coleman's lead recount lawyer, told FOXNews.com. "This was so...
  • Romney Helps Bankroll Coleman Recount Fund (and Saxby Chambliss with FReeandStrongAmerica.PAC)

    11/11/2008 1:23:29 PM PST · by Rameumptom · 100 replies · 976+ views
    NYTimes ^ | Nov. 11, 2008 | Michale Falcone
    Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who dipped into his own deep pockets to help finance his presidential bid, has directed $5,000 from his “Free and Strong America” political action committee to aid the recount effort of Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. Mr. Coleman, the Republican incumbent, is locked in a tight race with his Democratic opponent Al Franken. Though the initial vote tally showed Mr. Coleman ahead by 725 votes, as counties double checked their figures over the last week that margin has thinned even more. As of Monday, just over 200 votes separated the two challengers. The vote totals...
  • Milwaukee Puts Vote Fraud Cop Out of Business

    11/11/2008 12:10:02 PM PST · by PBRCat · 13 replies · 424+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 4, 2008 | John Fund
    Mr. Sandvick's unit released a 67-page report on what it called an "illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of (the 2004) election in the state of Wisconsin" -- a swing state whose last two presidential races were decided by less than 12,000 votes. The report found that between 4,600 and 5,300 more votes were counted in Milwaukee than the number of voters recorded as having cast ballots. Absentee ballots were cast by people living elsewhere; ineligible felons not only voted but worked at the polls; transient college students cast improper votes; and homeless voters possibly voted more than once....
  • McCain ACORN Fears Overblown: Experts (More Expert Libs)

    10/16/2008 11:43:16 AM PDT · by rightinthemiddle · 24 replies · 678+ views
    ABC News ^ | October 16, 2008 | JUSTIN ROOD
    Charges of Voter Fraud Are Out of Proportion to Reality, They Say Charges of potential vote fraud volleyed by Republicans, including Sen. John McCain himself, are out of proportion to reality, according to election experts. During Wednesday's final presidential debate before the November election, Sen. John McCain said Sen. Barack Obama is tied to ACORN, a nonprofit group that McCain said "is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy." But election experts say McCain's charges of potential vote fraud are overblown. Collapse The...
  • Fighting the spread of democracy (ACORN) (Barf)

    10/10/2008 8:25:37 PM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 12 replies · 378+ views
    gazettextra.com ^ | Oct. 7, 2008 | JOEL MCNALLY
    One Bush administration cover story for going to war in Iraq to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in no-bid contracts for Halliburton and other corporate cronies was that it was to spread democracy in the Mideast. Meanwhile, the president’s party continues to battle the spread of democracy in the Midwest. With less than a month to go before the election, the collateral damage from Republican efforts to fight the spread of democracy continues to pile up. The latest victims are convicted felons who are looking to get jobs to support themselves and their families without resorting to crime. A...
  • Boon for voter fraud, bust for democracy

    10/03/2008 6:53:17 PM PDT · by markomalley · 14 replies · 610+ views
    Seattle Post Intelligencer ^ | 10/2/2008 | DEROY MURDOCK
    Election Day? Who needs it? Americans already are casting ballots, five weeks before Nov. 4. This is a boon for vote fraud and a bust for democracy. In Ohio, most dramatically, an individual can register to vote between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6, then immediately receive an absentee ballot. Existing and brand-new electors also can cast ballots at early-voting centers. This is a gourmet recipe for voter fraud. What if some new registrants turn out to be non-citizens? Or felons? Or gung-ho 16-year-olds who only look 18? No problem. Why, we'll just fish out their ballots from the pile. Uh-oh....
  • Man who pleaded guilty on drug charge gets to vote

    09/24/2008 11:00:32 AM PDT · by Sopater · 12 replies · 420+ views
    KARE 11 News ^ | 9/6/08?
    ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A man facing prison time on a drug charge has gotten a break from a judge -- so that he can vote. Twenty-four-year-old Javontez Lavel Ross pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing several bags of suspected heroin with intent to sell. But he asked Ramsey County District Judge Margaret Marrinan to postpone his sentencing so he could vote in the Nov. 4 election. Ross, who said he recently moved to the Twin Cities from Chicago, would have been barred from voting if he had been sentenced before Election Day. The judge granted his request, calling the contest...
  • US election: McCain aides attack group's voter registration processes

    09/22/2008 7:35:52 PM PDT · by markomalley · 22 replies · 165+ views
    The Guardian ^ | 9/23/2008 | Daniel Nassaw
    Two advisers to John McCain's presidential campaign today said a flood of questionable voter registration applications in swing states threatens to undermine the accuracy of the November election and could prevent legitimate voters from registering for a ballot. The warning came less than a week after the Democratic party filed a lawsuit in Michigan seeking to end what its lawyers said were Republican efforts to suppress votes of poor people and African Americans, two historically Democratic constituencies. The move indicates the Democratic and Republican parties are set to battle over voter registration in the remaining weeks of the campaign. On...
  • State Plans 2.5 Million Paper Ballots for Nov. 4 (New Mexico Fraud)

    09/20/2008 6:23:59 AM PDT · by greyfoxx39 · 27 replies · 207+ views
    Albuquerque Journal ^ | September 20, 2008 | Dan Boyd
    SANTA FE — The New Mexico Secretary of State's Office plans to print nearly 2.5 million paper ballots for the Nov. 4 general election, although the state has only slightly more than 1.1 million voters. The reason? With a highly anticipated election less than seven weeks away that includes voting for president, an open U.S. Senate seat and three open congressional positions, the Secretary of State's Office wants to make sure each of the 1,550 precincts statewide is ready for an onslaught of voters who might or might not vote at their assigned polling places. "If we're going to err,...
  • AG's Vote Lawsuit Threatens to Undermine Democracy (WI Liberals & Voter Fraud)

    09/18/2008 6:34:47 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 10 replies · 138+ views
    Madistan.com ^ | September 17, 2008 | Editorial Writer
    When Republicans gathered in St. Paul for their national convention at the start of September, former White House political czar Karl Rove met with the Wisconsin delegation. Rove, who has been repeatedly implicated in a drive by the Bush White House to get U.S. attorneys to take steps to make it harder for minority voters and new voters to cast ballots, counseled the Wisconsin Republicans that they would need to go to extraordinary means to win the battleground state for party presidential nominee John McCain this year. Just days after returning from the Republican convention, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen,...