Posted on 11/25/2008 1:02:15 PM PST by SmithL
A new wrinkle is surfacing today in the recount battle in Minnesota between incumbent U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken -- missing ballots.
The Franken campaign today said that it has learned of missing ballots totaling several hundred in various counties. Franken recount attorney Marc Elias said he's also bothered that counties that know they have missing ballots aren't bothering to look for them.
Elias declined to identify those counties but acknowledged that the Franken campaign is monitoring reports of several dozen missing ballots in Becker County.
Officials can determine they have missing ballots whenever they come up with fewer paper ballots than what the electronic Election Night vote total was for the U.S. Senate race.
In Crystal, officials there say they have found eight absentee ballots, still sealed in their security envelopes, that had not been counted on Nov. 4. The ballots, which were subsequently included in the city's recount, increased Democrat Franken's total by seven votes and Republican Coleman's by one. The envelopes were discovered Friday night among opened envelopes, a city spokeswoman said.
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Translation: Al Franken thinks he’s going to come up a wee bit short and he needs to make it look like he was jobbed out of the senate seat.
Maybe this scumbag Elias can help those counties "find" the "missing" ballots:
"Did you look over here?"
"Did you look over there?"
"Did you look up here?"
"Did you look down there?"
"Here they are! In the trunk of a car!"
(Sheesh! I'm writing a Dr. Seus book about Democrat corruption.)
The Republican Party openly concedes the monitoring of elections, debate organizing, et. al. to organizations who are NOT non-partisan. If the GOP can’t find the backbone to start fighting in the trenches then they deserve to lose.
They should start by banning early-voting with same-day registration in all federal elections, regardless of state jurisdiction. THAT is an open invitation to vote fraud, particularly voting in multiple state jurisdiction (ie. students & retirees with multiple addresses).
“It appears that Minnesotans can’t vote either. All that snow is fogging up your brains....”
That’s not fair. There are no butterfly ballots or hanging chads up here. The voters didn’t screw up. Its the election officials who apparently can’t keep track of what they’re doing.
“All that snow is fogging up your brains....”
Oh, and it’s not snowing yet, so there!
Bookmarked.
Democrat Fraud Recount Alert. Again, of course.
A 7-1 recount total in favor of the democrat?
About normal. 8<)
That would do absolutely no good. Those that watch CPSAN would not have voted for him anyway. We already know that he is less than a zero. The others I am beginning to realize know nothing about politics nor do they care to.
Universal suffrage wasn't written into the Constitution for some very good reasons.
Appointment of Senators was written in for other good reasons. Al Franken is one of them.
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