[ApesForEvolution]

When I saw what the MNSC was doing, giving the courts the ball by changing MN statute to send out late absentee ballots, setting up the impending lawsuits by the MNDFL, I dropped what I was doing and flew back to MN. This election will only stay out of the courts if Fritz doesn't walk away, and right now, the election is running to Coleman!

[concerned about politics]

Oh yeh. The dumos will bitch, but the Mo. law says NO REPLACEMENT BALLOTS at all! They were givin a favor. The supremes will back the election as it is. Mo. was being fairer than required by their election laws.

[unspun]

Don't just sing to the choir here on the freep. Go to www.unspun.info and get busy with your email address list!

[Tennessean4Bush]

Can someone tell me how in the holy heck does Kirk win in GWB home state? How is this close? This is unbelievable!!

[Congressman Billybob]

Like the Supreme Court in Hawaii, and unlike the one in New Jersey, the Minnesota Supreme Court decided to obey the law, rather than rewrite it. Here's the set-up for the Democrat litigation after the election.

The MN SC has already said that those who want to change their prior absentee ballots have two choices. They can request a new absentee ballot with Mondale's name on it, or they can just show up and vote on election day. There will still be a residue, something less than 1% of all voters, who cast ballots for "Wellstone" that will not be corrected.

If Mondale loses to Coleman, but does so by less than the "Wellstone" votes that do not count, I expect Dem lawyers to race back to court screaming that those voters were "disenfranchised." The MN SC will throw this suit out in a New York minute, because all those voters had two chances to "correct" their vote, and for reasons of their own, did not do so.

One more point about Minnesota. Do not assume that all those (of the 100,000 absentee ballot requests) who are asking for new ballots, are intending to substitute a Mondale vote for a "Wellstone" vote. Some of those will be "Wellstone" voters who were grossed out by the "memorial-rally" and are switching either to the Green candidate, or even a few, to Coleman.

Congressman Billybob

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