Inconsistencies In Allocation Of [Coleman and Franken] Ballots

In response to requests from the media and public for the ballots we brought to the State Canvassing Board as inconsistently counted for Coleman and Franken, we have recently posted some of those ballots on our website.

While we have great respect for the long, difficult work that has been done by the canvassing board throughout this process, we remain concerned about the hasty dismissal of our concerns today. In an election that is this breathtakingly close, such inconsistencies matter to the overall credibility of the count. As the ballots will show you, there have clearly been some inconsistencies in how these ballots were allocated.

In this example there are two separate ballots, one with the Franken oval filled in, the other with the Coleman oval filled in. In both instances, an “X” covers the oval for both the Senate race and the Presidential race. However, the Board allocated the Franken vote for Franken while the Coleman vote was designated a “no vote.”

Click here to see the ballot allocated to Franken, and here to see the Coleman ballot that was designated as a no vote.

In this group of ballots, two Franken votes and two Coleman votes have their respective ovals filled in, but with an “X” or a line through only their Senate race vote. Again, as in the previous example, the Board allocated the Franken votes for Franken while the Coleman votes were designated as “no votes.”

Click here and here to see the ballots allocated to Franken, and here and here to see the Coleman ballots that were designated as no votes.

Bookmarked. Again.

The craven theft continues - but the MSM ignores EVERYTHING, every problem - UNTIL the “magic moment” arrives when Franken can get ahead.

THEN - all attempts or corrections or recounts are irresponsible and a theft of the election.

But re-counting BEFORE the democrat gets ahead are “required” and “mandatory” and “only fair.”

As I post regularly - and have yet to have an answer given (cause we know the answer):

Why is it that EVERY time a race comes to a recount (or multiple recounts), the DEMOCRAT candidate ALWAYS picks up more votes - and usually enough to change the outcome?

Election after election - recounts result in gained Democrat candidate votes - period.

And to see some of the votes counted for Franken, yet similarly mis-marked ballots for Coleman are thrown out...

This really should go a lot farther than just Coleman going to court - the Republican Party should thrown in every penny they have left (if any) to getting this thing handled correctly.

Reminds me so much of the thousands of 2000 POTUS ballots in Florida that were counted just because they had one corner of a chad lose, or had a slight “dimple” that was later shown to ONLY be possible when punching multiple ballots at the same time (hmmmm).

How about we count the ballots that are marked consistently with the instructions CLEARLY printed on the ballots... I firmly believe that if you too incompetent vote correctly, you are too incompetent to vote. And lack of reading skills is not an excuse - most every bubble-in ballot I have ever seen has examples to show how it is suppose to look. No reading skills necessary, other than to read the name of the candidate you want to vote for.

I don’t really care who a person wants to cast their vote for - that is their right. But if you can’t follow directions - then your vote should not count.

This is pretty obvious. This is clearly contestable. I would like to see those who called the coleman ones a no vote explain the difference. Frankly, I would have given all those to the candidate who was filled in.

We either have outright fraud or else embarrassingly obvious bias going on here.

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