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.
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They should not to a recount, but a revote.
Dip the fingers in ink. You don’t show, you don’t vote.
Isn’t there a RAT Secretary of State?
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.
We must all play by the same rules, right?
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.
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!
Whats surprising is the Minn GOP apparently hadn't planned on dealing with it.
That is exactly how the WA governor race was stolen in 2004. 13 different times they "found" new ballots.
How democrats steal elections.
Will we ever learn and do something about it?
Franken will prevail
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.
“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?
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.
Ping
Amazing that they’re going to pull this garbage again! That party is indeed a massive criminal conspiracy.
And leaving it unchallenged just turns us into another banana republic.
The big question is, will Pawlenty and the Minnesota GOP let them get away with it?
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.
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.
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