Posted on 12/11/2008 4:43:30 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Stepping up the pressure on the state Canvassing Board to count disputed absentee ballots in the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Al Franken's campaign Wednesday released a video with seven tug-at-the-heart stories from Minnesotans whose votes the campaign said were improperly rejected.
The video, which was released on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBOad11LueE) and came two days before the board's Friday meeting on the issue, was immediately criticized by Republicans, who described it as "a new low" and another attempt to discredit local election officials.
In one scene, quadriplegic Mike Brickley of Bloomington is shown lying in bed -- with his head resting on a Minnesota Vikings pillow -- as he pleads with officials to count his vote. "I may be a quadriplegic," said Brickley, 46, as he stares into the camera and speaks in a halting voice, "...but we are still someone, and we deserve to have our votes counted."
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I'm sure he's hard at it trying to outdo himself. One big long tantrum for him...
He never cared whether our Military votes were counted. ..still doesn’t. Franken IS vermin, nothinng less; if not something worse.
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This taking advantage of others’ mistakes and misfortunes is exploitation at its worst and lowest. Even Al Gore’s 36-day temper tantrum from 2000 is classy compared to this.
It seems odd that the election officials would return rejected ballots to the voters, since it would entail more work and expense for them. By far the more likely explanation is that the Franken campaign gave them papers to hold up to the camera for their film presentation. It is very questionable as to whether the papers they held up are truly their own ballots and registrations, since the film doesn't zoom in on the content of the material. In other words, fraud in this film is a definite possibility.
Good summary of the perverse lefty mindset! They have no respect for history nor precedent nor stability of society and culture. Their goal is to tear everything down and build something completely new. We conservatives intuitively realize that what they want to create is truly a disaster.
Unless, of course, you voted for the other side. Then your votes can be thrown out, you personally can be harassed, physically and verbally abused and your property vandalized. Other than that, the voter's will is sacred.
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