Posted on 04/18/2009 8:01:46 PM PDT by Gordon Greene
Meanwhile, back in the Minnesota Senate recount, the three-judge panel reviewing the race has declared Democrat Al Franken the winner. Republican Norm Coleman intends to appeal to the state's Supreme Court, while Democrats and the press corps pressure him to surrender. We hope Mr. Coleman keeps fighting, because the outcome so far hangs on the fact that some votes have been counted differently from others...
...Even without any irregularities, this is as close to a "tie" as it gets. And there have been plenty of irregularities. By the end of the recount, the state was awash with evidence of duplicate ballot counting, newly discovered ballots, missing ballots, illegal voting, and wildly diverse standards as to which votes were counted. Any one of these issues was enough to throw the outcome into doubt. Combined, they created a taint more worthy of New Jersey than Minnesota...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
"Democrats want to portray Mr. Coleman as a sore loser and make the Republican worry that he will ruin his chances for other political office. But Mr. Coleman has a legitimate grievance that not all votes have been treated equally. If the Franken standard of disparate absentee-voter treatment is allowed to stand, every close election will be settled by a legal scramble to change the vote-counting rules after Election Day. Minnesota should take the time to get this one right."
I’ve heard friends from MN say that if Coleman hadn’t been such a worthless idiot the election would have never been this close. People wanted to send him a message and instead shot their own foot off.
LOL! The Mexesotan Democrats are so eager to get their pet Tax Cheat sworn in as Senator that they don’t even care how they’ve descended into standards that would make a Third World country wrinkle its nose in disgust.
This *IS* the state that elected a pro wrestler governor, you recall...
They like their "elections" to be as "realistic" as their Big Time Wrestling, I guess...
**snicker**
Coleman deserves praise for fighting against this sham. I don’t want him to ever concede either because this is such an injustice to our form of government and the electoral process that it requires Coleman fighting this and standing firm. There’s some fight in him after all and it’s good to see the Demonrats getting uneasy with this because they have expected Republicans to sit back and let them continue to get away with this fraud and dirty ‘vote counts’. This needs to be fought and Demonrats taken to task for their actions in elections.
Amidst all the hair-tearing over today's ruling, Coleman's concession, and Pawlenty's intent to "sign off" on the election, I wanted find and review some real "evidence" as to why this took so long, and exactly what the fraud was.
We need to take this as a "cautionary tale", and remember the details...because it will surely happen again, and again...thanks for having the info. there!
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