Posted on 03/31/2009 2:51:20 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
First Recount Ruling Benefits Franken By Shira Toeplitz Roll Call Staff March 31, 2009, 5:36 p.m. . In another boost to Democrat Al Franken’s case in the ongoing Minnesota Senate recount trial, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that only 400 previously rejected absentee ballots will be delivered to the secretary of state to be reviewed.
With a margin of 225 votes separating Franken from Republican Norm Coleman, it’s unlikely that the additional ballots could swing the election in Coleman’s favor. An initial count of the ballots that were ordered to be reviewed showed that 167 of them were from the home counties of the Twin Cities, where Franken had a strong showing.
The pool of ballots is small compared with the approximately 1,350 absentee ballots that Coleman’s campaign wanted added to the final recount tally. What’s more, the three judges explicitly stated that not all 400 will be counted in the final total and instead will merely be reviewed by the court once they acquire more information. The judges ruled that these absentee ballots will be opened, sorted and counted in a courtroom beginning April 7.
The Tuesday decision is the first of what is expected to be several rulings in the recount trial that stemmed from the disputed 2008 Senate race. The ruling is expected to be the first of many that will decide whether Coleman or Franken received more votes in November.
Furthermore, Coleman has indicated that he intends to appeal the result to the state Supreme Court if the three judges do not rule in his favor.
The Senate can legally seat Franken at any time, although Republican leaders have threatened to filibuster any attempt by Democrats to seat him before all of Coleman’s legal options are exhausted.
Thanks for the ping (I think)!
Let’s see............
0bama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, now probably Franken.
Sure, the majority of people who vote have a lot of sense, sure they do.
Uh-huh.
Friggin’ Dufusses.
Coleman is a former democRAT. He was never one of us, only one by convenience.
As much as I despise that turd Franken, Minnesota deserves him.
The original comment talked about ballots being found in car trunks. Whatever this article has to say, I have seen no reports of ballots being found in any kind of mysterious way. Uncounted ballots were found, but it wasn’t a mystery. Nobody challenged their legitimacy, they were just uncounted.
I’ve followed this closely and this is probably the most scrutinized and carefully argued recount in U.S. history. We need to win elections with voters, not lawyers.
LLS
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" Albert Einstein
This is the quote that immediately comes to mind whenever I hear that argument. Are Americans insane for thinking that electing people who espouse fascist, left-wing policies is actually a good idea in spite of the fact that it has led to disaster every other time, and in every other place it has been tried? Or are Americans just too damn ignorant, lazy, and/or unwilling to perform any critical thinking when it comes to the future of the country? Perhaps a mixture of both?
Either way, it is beyond frustrating.
me too
I've become convinced that the majority of people who vote are somewhat of a cross between Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin - dim-witted, obnoxious, and incapable of seeing beyond their noses.
I am running out of states that I want to visit due to political leanings of its citizens, not that Minnesota was ever at the top of the list. I have already told my family that we will never go skiing again in Nuevo Mexico or Colorado. It’s Utah or Wyoming.
Honestly, I’ve completely bypassed Colorado for the same reasons, and I’ll avoid New Mexico in the future (the illegals have trashed it anyhow).
Wyoming has been my favorite state since the 60’s when I was a kid. I’ve tried to climb Grand Teton twice but have been weathered out both times, I’d love to give it another go.
Bighorn Mountains further east are also really nice. And the Winds.
Actually, it said:
..."overlooked" boxes of ballots in the trunks of cars and such.
But as I have scolded on FR before, I am not supposed to take it out on the commonfolk that live away from Denver and Albuquerque as they aren’t the libtards. I think that is mostly true if you look at the Presidential election maps by county.
>>>> away from Denver and Albuquerque as they aren’t the libtards. <<<<<<
Don’t you believe it.
Tucson and Tempe are full of college students, Santa Fe and Taos are the LatteLib crowd, etc. I know this and I don’t even live there (but have friends who do and I’ve visited many times).
Colorado is packed to the gills with liberal Californians. I had to work there for a month and was happy to leave.
Don't agree ! Many Republicans were former democrats. Shall we say that they saw the light.
I am sure that you remember one of our greatest Presidents...a hint his initials were RWR.
beware the county recorder’s offices all over this land, look at who runs them, look who is behind the counter.
I spent a week in Wyoming back in the fall. Mostly the southwestern portion. Man, I wish I could make a living there. Elk season was going on and every pickup seemed to have one in the back. Saw a moose in the back of one at the Pizza Hut.
She NEEDS Tax Cheat Franken up in Tax Cheat Central to take some of the "tax cheat heat" off her...
Kind of like my dumb ass Phd educated nitwit boss who would vote for a demoRAT even if the RAT was a serial killer, rapist, terrorist all rolled into one, or like my dumb ass brother & even dumber ass sister-in-law who voted for Oboooomba because he had an "economic plan". I laughed in my brother's face and said, tax & spend is not hope & change, it's the same demoRAT solution all the time. Anyway my dumbass brother & sister-in-law & dumb ass boss are STILL Oboooomba fanatics and demoRAT fanatics and will likely continue to be so even as they herd us all into internment camps. (Or try to at least)
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