How can it be that the votes we cast are treated with such disrespect. Each of those votes has been won and guarded with the life blood of thousands of Americans who fought for an American Ideal, at a time when it meant something.
Now, we work real hard at having election judges initial each ballot before it is handed to us, and we sign in with our names when we vote, and afterwords, the election judges in just three precincts in the state toss them into the trunk of a car without even leaving them in a common container.
There is no lock on the container on the way to deliver the votes?
Shame on us all for even allowing this situation to develop.
It should be in the presence of two judges at all times and counted in front of all people, and restored to a secured box until the election is certified.
What is good is a recount if three precincts merely add votes to the pile before the recount begins? This is not a recount, it is a continuation of the first count, which will continue until Franken wins.
We treat this so superficially, that it makes me wonder if that is not done on purpose to make certain the election can be thrown if need be.
It will discredit Minnesota in a bad way. Being the only state in the nation to vote Mondale doesn’t help. (Even Tennessee wasn’t that crazy in 2000).