Posted on 10/31/2002 7:22:07 AM PST by TonyInOhio
The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear arguments at 11:00 EST (10:00 CST) on the status of absentee ballots in next week's election.
Minnesota Public Radio will carry the hearing live. You can hear it live here (click on "Live MPR audio stream" on the lower right). The Court's information officer said KSTP Television may be providing live coverage as well.
Please post what you see and hear, here.
Can someone find and post the pertinent MN statute? Thanks.
Good grief! Voting by internet?
I don't think the Judges are buying this argument.
PING!
How insensitive of you! To even suggest such a political demonstration while the whole world is still mourning Senator Wellstone, especially his son who lost his mother and sister too. And after that beautiful memorial service. Shame on you. LOLOLOL
Glass houses and all...
There was one other possibility: Alan Page, the 57-year-old former Notre Dame and Minnesota Vikings football star who has been an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 1993. A law-and-order liberal, Page has led the state Democratic ticket in recent elections. According to Minnesota sources, he was eager to seek the Senate seat. But the DFL apparently did not want to risk running the African-American Page in an overwhelmingly Caucasian state, and Page was swiftly discouraged.Here:
It could be ex-Vice President Mondale, age 74 (call it the "New Jersey option," akin to the return of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, age 78, after Sen. Robert Torricelli dropped out of the Senate race there); Alan Page, the former Minnesota Vikings football star, now an associate justice on the state Supreme Court; Mondale's son Ted, a Minnesota lawyer; Hubert "Skip" Humphrey, the son of the late vice president; one of Wellstone's two surviving sons, David and Mark; one of the Minnesota congressmen; or maybe the state attorney general.Here:
Mr Mondale was the obvious successor: the favourite of Democrats in Minnesota and Washington, and most crucially of Wellstone's family. Only one other contender came close: Alan Page, an African-American former professional football player and a current member of the state supreme court.
You're welcome!
RATS just don't like this law. Well, tough. Death's a bitch in elections. And they are attempting to screw all other candidates across the spectrum in down-ballot races.
204B.41 Vacancy in nomination; changing ballots.
When a vacancy in nomination occurs through the death or catastrophic illness of a candidate after the 16th day before the general election, the officer in charge of preparing the ballots shall prepare and distribute a sufficient number of separate paper ballots which shall be headed with the words "OFFICIAL SUPPLEMENTAL BALLOT." This ballot shall contain the title of the office for which the vacancy in nomination has been filled and the names of all the candidates nominated for that office. The ballot shall conform to the provisions governing the printing of other official ballots as far as practicable. The title of the office and the names of the candidates for that office shall be blotted out or stricken from the regular ballots by the election judges. The official supplemental ballot shall be given to each voter when the voter is given the regular ballot or is directed to the voting machine. Regular ballots shall not be changed nor shall official supplemental ballots be prepared as provided in this section during the three calendar days before an election. Absentee ballots that have been mailed prior to the preparation of official supplemental ballots shall be counted in the same manner as if the vacancy had not occurred. Official supplemental ballots shall not be mailed to absent voters to whom ballots were mailed before the official supplemental ballots were prepared.
HIST: 1981 c 29 art 4 s 41; 1986 c 444; 1991 c 320 s 13
Copyright 2002 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/st02/204B/41.html
AG Hatch is now mentioning the military....
We received an automated call, reminding voters to request an absentee ballot if they hadn't already, and to mail their ballot in ASAP. I thought this was reasonable, given that the election is only days away. Absolutely nothing was said about the court.
DON'T EVER question my HTML again!!DAMNIT... (just kidding)
It won't matter how awful he is, even if there is a debate--
Case in Point:
Frank Lautenberg was horrible in the NJ debates last night, doddering, nasty, conmpletely off-topic and dismissive to the other candidates. Do the local (Jersey) papers and news reports reflect this truth ?? Nope -- they are saying things like "Lautenberg went after Forrester forcefully" and "hit his points well" that he "asked important questions regarding Forrester's change of position on abortion" (making sure that they bring up something that hurts Forrester with his own supporters). They even made reference to Lautenbergs having served in the military, while Forrester did not (unfair point, Forrester signed up for the draft but was not called--whereas Lautenberg looked old enough to have served in WW I). Watching the debate and then hearing/reading the reports in the media makes one think you were tuned to the wrong station -- it's like an "alternate universe" thing *SIGH*
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