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Tensions High in Minnesota Ahead of Senate Recount
FoxNews ^ | 11/11/08 | Judson Berger

Posted on 11/11/2008 3:55:08 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants

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 one-sided as to make it an anomaly and to make us ... more than a little bit suspicious of what's going on."

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On Saturday, Coleman's campaign failed to halt the counting of 32 absentee ballots from Minneapolis, saying the ballots had been left for several days in the car of an election official.

(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheating; stuffingtheballotbox; votefraud
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It is highly suspicious that virtually ALL the ballots they "find" favor Franken.
1 posted on 11/11/2008 3:55:09 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants

They should not to a recount, but a revote.

Dip the fingers in ink. You don’t show, you don’t vote.


2 posted on 11/11/2008 3:56:25 PM PST by Loud Mime (CHANGE: Palin 2012)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Isn’t there a RAT Secretary of State?


3 posted on 11/11/2008 3:56:54 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Wouldn’t it be great if we could have a replay of FL 2000, angry Coleman supporters intimidating (in the best sense of the word) the vote counters.


4 posted on 11/11/2008 3:58:33 PM PST by fortunate sun (Proud Palinista!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
If that's the new rules (trunk-votes count) then the Republicans better locate some lost ballots in their own trunks....

We must all play by the same rules, right?

5 posted on 11/11/2008 3:58:55 PM PST by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

They’ll keep finding trunkloads of (mostly) Franken ballots until he edges ahead. Then the recounting will abruptly stop, and the Dems will pick up another Senate seat. That’s the way the DCE (Democrat Criminal Enterprise) works. ...and the wusses in the Republican “thank you sir, may I have another” party will let it happen.


6 posted on 11/11/2008 3:59:29 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Surely, they are going to take this further. What’s the problem, money? Can’t Coleman afford to really fight this fraud?

Left in a car, that can’t possibly be legal!


7 posted on 11/11/2008 4:00:31 PM PST by Kenny
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Highly suspicious, but hardly surprising.

Whats surprising is the Minn GOP apparently hadn't planned on dealing with it.

8 posted on 11/11/2008 4:02:10 PM PST by skeeter (Its Barry's fault)
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They’ll keep finding trunkloads of (mostly) Franken ballots until he edges ahead. Then the recounting will abruptly stop, and the Dems will pick up another Senate seat. That’s the way the DCE (Democrat Criminal Enterprise) works. ...and the wusses in the Republican “thank you sir, may I have another” party will let it happen.

That is exactly how the WA governor race was stolen in 2004. 13 different times they "found" new ballots.

9 posted on 11/11/2008 4:02:35 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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10 posted on 11/11/2008 4:02:45 PM PST by Dan Lacey
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Classic example of old democrat tactics:

How democrats steal elections.

Will we ever learn and do something about it?

Franken will prevail

11 posted on 11/11/2008 4:03:11 PM PST by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The ONLY fair way to settle this is to have a revote. All these phony balony “ballots” they are “finding” for the buck toothed moron are fraudulent.


12 posted on 11/11/2008 4:08:52 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I voted for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Officials say the winner will probably not be known until mid-December, at the earliest”.

There’s no mystery who the winner will be. What was that Stalin quote about it not being important who votes but who counts the votes?


13 posted on 11/11/2008 4:09:38 PM PST by saganite (I for one welcome our new Socialist masters /s/)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Suspicious indeed.

Not very surprising, though.

Someone here pointed out in 2000 that the entire hanging chad/dimpled chad problem (as well as the double voted ballots for president) were likely caused by Democrat poll workers taking stacks of ballots and forcing a stiff wire down on the Algore vote.

14 posted on 11/11/2008 4:11:11 PM PST by BenLurkin (Pray for gridlock.)
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To: MplsSteve

Ping


15 posted on 11/11/2008 4:22:01 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: sionnsar

Amazing that they’re going to pull this garbage again! That party is indeed a massive criminal conspiracy.


16 posted on 11/11/2008 4:24:22 PM PST by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: Skywalk

And leaving it unchallenged just turns us into another banana republic.


17 posted on 11/11/2008 4:35:10 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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That party is indeed a massive criminal conspiracy.

The big question is, will Pawlenty and the Minnesota GOP let them get away with it?

18 posted on 11/11/2008 4:41:56 PM PST by capydick ("History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid".)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Funny how these so called errors all seem to benefit Franken. How is it that these alleged mistakes is only benefiting one guy?
I predict they’ll do a recount and they will find even more votes for the dem. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it.


19 posted on 11/11/2008 4:49:27 PM PST by psjones (u)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

How did this work out between Johnson and Thune in 2000 or Rossi and Gregoire in ‘04?

We need a revolution, more today than ever.


20 posted on 11/11/2008 4:50:24 PM PST by proudpapa (Obama - The Worst One Ever!)
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