Posted on 08/10/2010 11:39:54 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Rejected absentee ballots are private information, with that ruling the Minnesota court of appeals says KSTP-TV can't look at them.
That reverses a ruling by a Ramsey county judge that allowed KSTP and four other Hubbard broadcasting stations to get access to unopened, rejected absentee ballots from the 2008 election.
Last year, a 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS investigation uncovered absentee ballots that had been wrongly accepted and rejected.
The station sued to examine the 13-thousand that were never counted in the election to continue it's investigation.
The appeals court says the law states clearly that sealed absentee ballots are private data until opened by an election judge, so rejected, unopened absentee ballots remain private.
That's why the races in the upcoming election must not even be close ... or they could be lost. As Hugh Hewitt has written, "If it ain't close, they can't cheat."
Of course they rule against, they’re a pile of left-winged scum in black robes.
Could individuals who suspect that their ballots were rejected sue (i.e. in a class-action lawsuit), and then hand over their ballots to KSTP, if they so choose?
Great question. Don’t know the answer.
I’m trying to think what else could be done in this particular case, in the alternative. Perhaps Coleman voters who felt their ballots may have been rejected could send in privacy waivers to the attorneys representing KSTP, and then KSTP could re-file their suit?
I’ve always wondered how a lying liar that lies about telling lies could ever be elected senator.
It only makes sense if there was some tampering with the votes.
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