Posted on 02/16/2009 4:20:35 AM PST by rhema
Dealing a blow but not a knockout to Republican Norm Coleman's hopes, the judges in the U.S. Senate election trial on Friday tossed out most of the 19 categories of rejected absentee ballots they were considering for a second look, making it clear that they won't open and count any ballots that don't comply with state law.
On its face, the ruling looked to be a victory for DFLer Al Franken, whose lawyers had urged the judges to turn down 17 of the 19 categories and said Friday that they had very nearly done it.
"We are obviously very pleased with the court's decision ... there's a large chunk of ballots that have now been taken out of play," said Franken lawyer Marc Elias.
But Coleman's attorneys saw it differently, saying that the ruling leaves untouched about 3,500 of the 4,800 rejected absentee ballots they want the court to open and count, enough to make it possible for Coleman to overcome Franken's 225-vote certified recount lead.
Coleman lawyer Fritz Knaak said that those remaining votes -- along with the ballots of registered voters who were thought to be nonregistered as well as the ballots of voters whose signatures looked mismatched but weren't -- will eventually result in Coleman's return to the Senate.
The order "has a very limited impact," Knaak said. "We're disappointed that all 4,800 won't be counted, but we're very pleased that the 3,500 that do remain are still there."
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You are applying common sense, it doesn’t work that way when Rats are counting votes.
What are we looking at...........weeks or months?
To many rejected ballots turning up weeks after the election was over
This is a huge mess.
My, we've come a long way from Florida, where "every vote should be counted"...
Exactly, Old Sarge...
Rather than these ridiculous recounts, I’d far prefer a law requiring another election when any vote count has no more than a .00X% variance.
The way these things are conducted is unseemly and highly suspicious.
The people who cast the votes do not decide an election,
the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
UUNNNNNNNGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I hate that freaking sign and the idiot who owns that place.
I don’t know if Coleman can win because the system is so stacked. But sometimes just fighting back is as important as winning, and I’m glad Coleman is going to the mat on this one.
Look at my post #18. With all the legal wranglings we’re lucky if this is resolved before April.
BTW- I ran across that pic while searching for an example of lib hypocrisy when it comes to “every vote must count”. I had several to choose from, but decided to grab that one; lucky you ;)
Your post gets my vote for quote of the day..
Sorry but this is not how it will be played in the msm.
remember, Dem corruption doesn’t count.
So we could use the courts to tie up the seating of all our congress critters post election, leaving congress empty and unable to function for who knows how long?
Hmmmm....
Possibly. But Norm is a rino.
I agree rhema. Erik is a SIGNIFICANT conservative upgrade to Ramstad.
No. The Dems needed 60 votes to invoke cloture, and they got the two hags from Maine and the Scottish dipstick from Pennsylvania to help them to that number. Coleman would have just made it 61-39 instead of 61-38.
I think so. He's at least to the right of our 3 RINO traitors that voted for Porkulus.
That’s ignorant. Everybody is likely a rino to a guy like you.
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