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Franken campaign claims first lead in recount
minnesota independent ^ | By 12/3/08 1:17 PM | Paul Demko

Posted on 12/03/2008 12:39:11 PM PST by jessduntno

Al Franken’s campaign claims it now holds a 22-vote lead in the U.S. Senate race with just 138,000 votes left to be recounted. This figure contrasts with other tabulations, based on numbers from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office, that show Coleman maintaining a 303-vote lead.

The Franken numbers differ in a couple of respects from the SOS data. Most importantly the Democratic camp’s vote tally relies on the call made by local election officials in determining which candidate an individual intended to support. By contrast the other tallies don’t take into consideration the roughly 6,000 ballots that have been challenged by both campaigns. In addition, the Franken campaign’s figures include recount data that came in after the SOS’s 8 p.m. daily deadline for posting information.

Marc Elias, the Franken campaign’s lead recount attorney, stated at a press conference today that he believes an overwhelming majority of the challenges will ultimately be ruled to be without merit. “Thus when we set out internally to decide how we track the results thus far, we assume that all of the challenges, on both sides, will be overruled by the canvassing board,” he noted, “and that the judgment of the neutral, non-partisan election official at the counting table will be upheld.”

Elias also announced that the Franken campaign intends to rescind 633 challenges that it has determined are without merit. Unless the Coleman campaigns takes similar action, this means that Coleman’s lead as tabulated using the SOS figures will likely grow when the new figures are released this evening. As of last night the Republican’s campaign had challenged 183 more ballots than its Democratic counterpart.

The final four counties — Winona, Rock, Redwood and Wright — began their recounts today. The entire process is expected to conclude by Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at minnesotaindependent.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electioncongress; electionussenate; stealingelections; votefraud; voting
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Imbeciles....total morons...who could POSSIBLY think Stewart Smalley should be anywhere near a Government office...Cripes...
1 posted on 12/03/2008 12:39:11 PM PST by jessduntno
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To: jessduntno

He is so full of crap. He has no lead. Al Franken makes Obama look like a saint


2 posted on 12/03/2008 12:39:47 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: jessduntno

This is just rich. Classic “repeat a lie until it becomes reality”.

Unreal.


3 posted on 12/03/2008 12:40:58 PM PST by mattdono (Only Lot will be left.)
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To: jessduntno

And the RINO govenor? He lay low.


4 posted on 12/03/2008 12:41:13 PM PST by screaminsunshine (.)
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To: jessduntno

If as first you don’t succeed, recount and recount again till you do.


5 posted on 12/03/2008 12:41:46 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: mattdono

Franken WILL steal this election.....


6 posted on 12/03/2008 12:41:57 PM PST by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: jessduntno

It’s amazing to watch the Dems do this every election cycle. Statistically one would think that one of these recounts would at some point favor the Republican.

Strangely they all favor the Democrats — especially when missing ballots turn up. Hilarious.


7 posted on 12/03/2008 12:42:25 PM PST by rom (Voted for Ron Paul in the primary. Voted against Obama in the general and FOR Palin.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

The only one who thinks he has a lead is Franken, and that is by 22 votes. Everyone else agrees Coleman’s lead has actually increased since the recount started. I guess maybe Coleman should concede so Al can take his Senate seat.


8 posted on 12/03/2008 12:42:35 PM PST by milwguy (........)
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To: jessduntno

Lovely. Now the Dems take MN.

Every close race has somehow ended up as Dem victory: OR, AK, now MN.

Only a revote in GA saved Chambliss.


9 posted on 12/03/2008 12:43:04 PM PST by Elpasser
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To: mattdono
This is just rich. Classic “repeat a lie until it becomes reality”.

I always ask people who say Bush was not legal elected, just when Gore was ahead in the Florida vote count? They all swear that he was, but of course, that never happened.

10 posted on 12/03/2008 12:43:19 PM PST by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: milwguy

They wouldn’t know. Franken is the one that knows the fix is in. I’m sure they’re scheduled to find more “votes” for Franken in the refrigerator, just enough to put him over the top.


11 posted on 12/03/2008 12:44:02 PM PST by couchpotatoxxx12
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To: jessduntno

That state should be embarrassed not only because their process seems to be very bad...but also that Franken was even close enough for a recount.


12 posted on 12/03/2008 12:44:19 PM PST by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking"..J.C. Watts)
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To: jessduntno
Al Franken’s campaign claims it now holds a 22-vote lead in the U.S. Senate race

It's sort of like a "shadow government." A "shadow election"—a replica of the real one, but arranged the way you'd like it to be. He can dream, can't he?

At least the Brits don't claim the "shadow" is the real thing.

13 posted on 12/03/2008 12:45:28 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: jessduntno

Recount, recount, recount until your guy magically has a lead then “STOP!! WE WON”

Right out of the Dem’s playbook.


14 posted on 12/03/2008 12:45:44 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“He is so full of crap. He has no lead”

This is all about throwing up enough doubt so as to offer cover for the Senate to seat him rather than Coleman.


15 posted on 12/03/2008 12:45:46 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: Elpasser

“Every close race has somehow ended up as Dem victory: OR, AK, now MN.”

Odds are on their side...even if they have to cheat to put them there...remember their rally cry is “the ends justify the means”......


16 posted on 12/03/2008 12:45:57 PM PST by jessduntno (Barack - Kenyan for "High Wind, Big Thunder, No Rain")
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To: jessduntno

It appears that all the psychotherapy for co-dependency, etc has paid off.


17 posted on 12/03/2008 12:47:05 PM PST by Augustinian monk ("Can't we try bombing them with kindness?")
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To: Elpasser
Every close race has somehow ended up as Dem victory:

Bush 2000?

18 posted on 12/03/2008 12:47:38 PM PST by E=MC2
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To: jessduntno

Franken creates his own vote count showing him ahead so he can get the U.S. Senate to decide the election. I don’t think he’ll get away with this.


19 posted on 12/03/2008 12:47:53 PM PST by hugorand
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Won’t be long and He’ll have won by a landslide, an He’ll claim a mandate to run the Senate


20 posted on 12/03/2008 12:49:37 PM PST by reefdiver (How do you keep the Conservative a Conservative, in Washington DC ?)
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