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State Recount: Franken Loses in Bid to Add Ballots
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^
| November 26, 2008
| Kevin Duschere and Bob Von Sternberg
Posted on 11/26/2008 8:04:46 PM PST by justiceseeker93
The state Canvassing Board's rejection of Al Franken's bid to count ballots stirred new rancor.
Democrat Al Franken suffered a setback Wednesday when the state Canvassing Board unanimously turned down his campaign's request to include rejected absentee ballots in the U. S. Senate recount, prompting a Franken attorney to threaten to go all the way to Washington if necessary to get them considered.
"Whether it is at the county level, before the Canvassing Board, before the courts, or before the United States Senate, we don't know yet. But these votes will be counted," said Marc Elias, the campaign's lead recount attorney, who added that he won't appeal the board's decision.
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., termed the Canvassing Board's decision "cause for great concern" and called on Minnesota officials to "ensure that no voter is disenfranchised."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: coleman; franken; mn2008; recount; senate
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Seems as if Franken's camp is about to concede that Coleman will win the recount and is hinting about the strategy to follow.
It's deja vu for the 'Rats to claim that someone is "disenfranchised" whenever illegal or fraudulent votes are discovered. It's nice to know that the Canvassing Board apparently didn't fall for that BS.
To: justiceseeker93
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:05:48 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: GreatOne; Clintonfatigued; jazusamo; smoothsailing; Just A Nobody; fieldmarshaldj
Coleman’s lead in the recount up to +282 now.
To: justiceseeker93
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:07:25 PM PST
by
ajay_kumar
(Zero has given us the worst stock market since ANY presidential election in history)
To: ajay_kumar
I am flabbergasted
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:08:42 PM PST
by
Digger
(If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
To: justiceseeker93
"
But these votes will be counted"
They have been. They are 6500 invalid votes.
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:09:09 PM PST
by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Socialist Mafia.)
To: justiceseeker93
called on Minnesota officials to "ensure that no voter is disenfranchised." Unless he's a Republican.
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:10:01 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Digger
I am flabbergasted Me too and I don't flabbergast easily.
If the rats dfon't steal this one, it will be a miracle.
To: justiceseeker93
Dirty Harry has suggested that the Senate may not seat Coleman. I don’t think they have the stones to just give it to Franklin.
Disgusting.
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:13:00 PM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
To: justiceseeker93
Obama-osama-lama-rama-ding-dong’s fault!
(gosh, that felt good saying that!)
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:13:06 PM PST
by
gourmand
To: Graybeard58
Coleman must have originally won overwhelmingly—not even the thousands of manufactured Franken votes can overcome his lead. This is very good news.
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:13:41 PM PST
by
GatorGirl
(Don't Blame Me, I Voted McCain!)
To: justiceseeker93
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything.....
Joseph Stalin
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:18:40 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
To: justiceseeker93
They are going to take this to the US Senate, which will count the invalid/fraudulent votes, and Franken will be seated.
The Republicans will protest, but there is nothing they will be able to do about it.
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:19:53 PM PST
by
Chet 99
To: justiceseeker93
ensure that no voter is disenfranchised Did it ever occur to these people that when you allow fraudulent ballots to be counted, you are disenfranchising the legitimate voters? Once fraudulent vote = one legitimate vote disenfranchised.
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:22:47 PM PST
by
NurdlyPeon
(Sara Palin: Americas' last, best hope for survival.)
To: justiceseeker93
The irony...is yummy yummy...so the same Party that disenfranchised Florida and Michigan voters...now bleats about “no voter disenfranchised...”
I think the level they are willing to sink to in a quest for power is quite clear.
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:24:41 PM PST
by
padre35
(You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
If they do just give it to the clown, there isn't the slightest reason I should regard any verbal flatulence issuing from the senate chamber as anything but pollution. They are not lawmakers if they ignore the law, they are buffoons.
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:34:08 PM PST
by
JasonC
To: justiceseeker93
Nothing short of totalitarianism is at stake here. No pressure!
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:36:32 PM PST
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: skinkinthegrass
...The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.Yes, I've heard that quot from Stalin before. But I see some hope here for Coleman, as it seems like he got a fair ruling from the Canvassing Board.
To: skinkinthegrass
...The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.Yes, I've heard that quote from Stalin before. But I see some hope here for Coleman, as it seems like he got a fair ruling from the Canvassing Board.
To: justiceseeker93
But these votes will be counted.. ...and counted, and counted, and counted, and counted, and counted again!
Where is that Al Gore I Am (count the votes until I smile) ditty again?
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posted on
11/26/2008 8:41:07 PM PST
by
pray4liberty
(Always vote for life!)
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