I don’t have my copy of the Constitution handy, but WTF?????
Well this is exactly what the Rats want. They are the deciders you know. Obama will soon be changing that pesky constitution thing to make it more Progressive.
I think the SCOTUS is going to have a busy year...
WTF
WRONG.
The 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
If that is the case then this race is over.
If they do it will be the best thing to happen to the Republican party in years.
If it must be thrown in to the lap of someone, shouldn’t that lap belong to the Minnesota State Legislature?
We need to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment for many reasons.
Un-be-freaking-lievable. Coleman wins the election, wins the recount, so Reid and his Senate cohorts will give it to Alfranken? All that’s missing is Rod Sterling with the Twilight Zone theme playing in the background.
I think that the best the Senate could do is deny Coleman his seat. They can’t install Franken if he isn’t certified as winning the race.
In gore vs Bush they said it should be decided locally.
That's part of the reason why Coleman barely won to begin with. Too much reaching across the aisle, bipartisanship crap. How's that working out for you now Coleman? Democrats ain't your friends.
“For Franken a Math Problem”
“Challenged ballots may offer the Senate challenger a path to overtaking Coleman, but numbers indicate it would be a tough route.”
So much for the fairy tale that “every single vote counts.” In the rare case when an election like this is this close, it is now thrown out!
If he really said the canvassing board decision was "controversial", he isn't much of a scholar.
The Canvassing board decided based on the law, and the decision was correct.
We don't pick some small subset of the voters, and decide to treat THEIR ballots with extra-special care and concern for their intent.
Sure, there might be absentee ballots that were incorrectly rejected.
But there were also likely hundreds of people who tried to vote who were improperly rejected, another hundreds who weren't informed of a move in their precinct, another hundreds who got hung up at work and couldn't properly exercise their intent.
We simply expect that the overall effect of these things average out, so that those who do make it to the polls and do properly vote will accurately reflect what would have happened with all those other voters.