Posted on 12/12/2008 11:42:25 AM PST by dr_who
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Democrat Al Franken got good news Friday in his bid for the Senate, winning favorable rulings from a state elections board on rejected absentee ballots and the tally in one of his strongholds.
The Canvassing Board overseeing the race recount recommended that county election boards sort and count wrongly rejected absentee ballots. The five-member panel also urged that a recount in one University of Minnesota area precinct be based on Election Night tapes from a ballot counting machine.
The recount there, where results favor Franken, ended with 133 missing ballots that could be counted if the tapes are used.
While the state board's recommendations are nonbinding, most counties have gone forward with a voluntary sorting. Others, however, have balked in the drawn-out recount as Franken tries to topple Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
"It was a great day for democracy," Franken attorney Marc Elias said of the state board's recommendations.
At least 638 absentee ballots are known to have been rejected for something other than the four legal reasons for disqualification. That's based on an assessment of about half of Minnesota's counties by the secretary of state's office. State officials estimate the total could top 1,500.
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“The count on election night can not be trusted, we must recount.
Hmmmm, the recount costs us vote in this one county, therefore in this one county we can not trust the recount and must go with the election night results.”
The Demo crooks keep COUNTING and COUNTING and COUNTING! How long can the drag out a recount? Obviously, until their man wins! Just like in Washington State 2 years ago!
Yep, just keep counting until the bastard wins.
-Josef Stalin
Apparently if there aren’t enough ballots to count, you just add some extras in from the last time you counted. Foregone conclusion: Franken will win by counting rejected absentee ballots, ballots from the first count added to the recount, and just enough challenged ballots going his way to swing the election in his favor.
I do hope that I am wrong.
Franken's lawyer is a better comedic writer than he is.
I predict when it all shakes out, it’s Franken +200. Just enough to put him over the top.
I’d been wondering how the dems were going to pull this one out of the hats. Well, there it is!
Also in the 50's Bogart movie "Key Largo".
“Mining” the rejected ballots for votes.
Sounds like a GAME. Winner take all.
What are the RULES of this game or maybe there aren’t any.
"Missing absentee ballots"??? Is that an AP mistake? I thought the missing ballots were the alleged 133 from that one precinct - and not absentee.
And those "638 absentee ballots are known to have been rejected for something other than the four legal reasons" - weeks ago I read those ballots had been rejected for some darn good reasons --
like signatures not matching those on voter rolls!
So Dems get to count obviously fraudulent ballots now. Hey, somebody voted, even if it wasn't the person registered! Count 'em all ! /s
Franken's lawyer is a better comedic writer than he is.
That's really not saying much good about him. IMHO, Franken hasn't been funny at all for many years (if not decades).
From what I can tell, the only rule is “make sure the Dem wins.” I doesn’t matter how you play, it only matters that you win.
Anybody who would vote for that idiot is really mentally challenged!
Are you joking or is this an actual case?
It is an actual case that was reported in the news and highlighted here on FR. I have not heard anything else about it and curious to the status of the military ballots found sitting in a warehouse.
Coleman has appealed to the Minnesota Supreme Court to establish a uniform standard for counting the “fifth pile”.
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