Can the dems be blamed for trying to shed Franken's mind-numbing idiocy from their ranks?
This image of a Democrat Senator would haunt the halls of the United States Senate until the end of time.
Posted on 02/03/2009 1:24:30 PM PST by Buck W.
This report (link), hot off the press, signifies a victory for Norm Coleman in the election contest with Al Franken: the court hearing the contest has ruled that "all absentee ballots that complied with state law should be counted, along with those where errors occurred through no fault of the voter." Franken has been trying to prevent a number of ballots that complied with state law from being counted.
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>>the court hearing the contest has ruled that “all absentee ballots that complied with state law should be counted, along with those where errors occurred through no fault of the vote<<
Why on earth should it take a court to rule that - that should be standard operating procedure.
Better than Franken though...
I agree. I’ve thought that for some time. They can’t decide which would be worse... the republican (who’s a nice fellow that everybody likes), or the a-hole, scumbag, washed-up comedian hack that has a tendency to fly into rages in public. I figured they’d hold their nose and seat Frank-in-further, but he may have p-o’d somebody big.
Can the dems be blamed for trying to shed Franken's mind-numbing idiocy from their ranks?
This image of a Democrat Senator would haunt the halls of the United States Senate until the end of time.
But we have to have at least the THREAT of a fillie or we’ll really be flat on our backs with our legs in the... uh... I better leave it at that.
Armed Forces ballots from Iraq would be absentees and predominantly Coleman I would imagine. Hopefully that is what these are.
Folks who take vacations often are business owners (Republicans).
???
We don’t need another bad comedian in Washington.
Do they include military ballots?
Why not? He'd match the other 58 or 59 clowns already in the Senate.
Bama will just have to appoint another sitting pub senator to his cabinet.
Haven’t you heard the old lines,”Republicans are business folks”. Business travel and private travel?
If that be true then Coleman has a chance.
because they were for coleman
If a majority of them are Military ballots, NORM wins!
perfect cartoon
I wanted to be sure that you didn’t miss this. Pray!
Military votes?
Franken is such a weasel, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
I believe a lot of the ballots that have been disputed were mail-in ballots.
Mail-in ballots, in Texas, and I think in Minnesota, have an outside "carrier" envelope, then an inside envelope. The carrier envelope has the signature of the voter, and whatever else information the law requires. On election day, the carrier envelopes that are deemed to be valid are opened, and the interior envelopes, which have no markings, are mixed together, then opened and counted, which preserves the confidentially of the vote. The carrier envelopes which are rejected are not opened, so you don't know who the voter voted for.
Per previous posts by Powerline, Franken's campaign did a great job, and Coleman's campaign did a pi@@ poor job, of contacting the voters whose carrier envelopes were deemed to have not complied with the law, and whose votes were never counted. Everyone who told Franken that they voted for him was noted by the Franken campaign, and the Franken campaign immediately went to bat to get those votes accepted and counted in the recount. Coleman, by and large, did not do that, so he did not know which carrier envelopes to try and get counted during the recount process.
Thus, since Franken has already cherry picked the carrier envelopes for "his" voters, the balance of them should favor Coleman.
Does that mean that Coleman can convince the Court that the carrier envelopes were improperly rejected, and get them opened? Who knows. It does appear to mean that he will have a shot at it, and his hopes, while still dimly flickering, are brighter than they were.
“There are almost 5000 ballots that are put back in play as a result. Coleman may still have a chance. “
Where are they from?
He may not have a chance of winning, but he’s still doing the lord’s work. Dems need to know their limits.
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