Surprise! They all voted for Al Franken.
The quick, easy and cheap way to resolve this matter even now is to have a run-off election, Coleman and Franken.
“The quick, easy and cheap way to resolve this matter even now is to have a run-off election, Coleman and Franken.”
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....with valid photo identification and actual physical presence at the polls.....
Exactly right! For me that was a given when they started doing the Florida shuffle to find out who really won.
Just hold another election.
“The quick, easy and cheap way to resolve this matter even now is to have a run-off election, Coleman and Franken.”
If only it were that easy. Believe me, the screaming would start right here at FR the moment SCOTUS invalidated a State’s Election, and ordered a new contest. That would require unimpeachable proof that the election was so badly compromised as to be invalid; but so would every other issue and Candidate race on the ballot along with the Coleman-Franken race.
That’s an extremely tall order, and I don’t think it’s a new legal precedent that anyone on the Left or the Right wants to set.
At least not yet...
I’m pretty sure that Al Franken is going to be seated, and he will be Minnesota’s problem. Undeniably his vote will go to the Democrats, but at the same time, Al won’t have the luxury of sitting on his ass in the office while his lawyer does his talking for him. I think it will be a matter of time until Al reverts to character and becomes every bit the National embarrassment that I expect him to be. I know of several reporters who would be highly qualified to bait Franken into dropping an “F” bomb at a news conference...
I doubt very highly that Franken will be making many close personal friends in the Senate as a new Freshman...maybe he and Roland “Tombstone” Burris can share and office, since Neither of them has a snowball’s chance in hell of serving more than one term.
My take on elections:
“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” —opening lines of 101 Things To Do’Til The Revolution by Claire Wolfe
“Voting” is working within the system. It is a Dagney Taggart thing as opposed to a John Galt thing.
A liberal, however, would say that a runoff election is extralegal because it was not part of the process outlined before the campaign. I suppose a court could order a runoff, but then the Dean Barkley people would demand inclusion too. I think what will be done is to seat the popular Franken.
SOS Ritchie is more aware of the vote fraud in the last election than he is letting on. Therefore, he would never approve a runoff election... even if Minnisota law allows such a thing.
So perfectly stated. Should become the meme. Well done.
What makes you think dead people won’t also vote in a run-off election?
I agree.. RUN OFF ELECTION and Coleman will win in a landslide. It would be a great shot in the arm for the opposition. Is there any chance of this happening?