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Recount mixup prompts dispute in Ramsey County (Franken demands double votes count if for him)
star tribune ^ | 11/24/2008 | CURT BROWN, PAUL LEVY

Posted on 11/24/2008 6:22:56 PM PST by tobyhill

A discrepancy over the number of ballots in a box and the number recorded on a computer tape from Election Day prompted a dispute this morning at the U.S. Senate recount underway in Ramsey County.

The mandatory statewide recount began last week in the race between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken.

In Ramsey county, there were seven fewer ballots in the box from St. Paul's Ward 5, Precinct 8 than recorded on Nov. 4. Election judges counted the ballots three times before resealing the box amid protests from Franken's observers.

County Elections Manager Joe Mansky said it's possible that judges in the precinct, located on the northern edge of St. Paul bordering Maplewood, might have inadvertently run some ballots through twice.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 2sleazy4words; coleman; electionussenate; franken; frankeniscrooked; mn2008; sleazyfranken; votefraud; voterfraud
71% counted, Coleman by +209
1 posted on 11/24/2008 6:22:57 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Praying hard for Norm Coleman!!

I can’t believe I actually used to like Al Franken all those years ago—what a LOSER he’s become!!!

AND STILL WILL BE WHEN THE REMAINDER OF THE VOTES ARE COUNTED!!!

NO DEMONCRAT MAJORITY IN CONGRESS!! CHECKS AND BALANCES!!


2 posted on 11/24/2008 6:25:14 PM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: tobyhill

bump


3 posted on 11/24/2008 6:25:17 PM PST by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW ,)
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To: tobyhill
I grew up in Ramsey County you POcrap - Al Franken YOU LEAVE MY PEOPLE ALONE. THEY DON'T WANT YOU AS THEIR SENATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4 posted on 11/24/2008 6:26:29 PM PST by NordP (PALIN POWER: She's Reagan in heels, Teddy Roosevelt in a dress & like Rummy at a press conference!)
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To: tobyhill
it's possible that judges in the precinct might have inadvertently run some ballots through twice.

Well hell yes, those have got to be Frankenstein's.

Running ballots through twice is a talent or plain stupid.

5 posted on 11/24/2008 6:28:42 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: NordP

One more time who is going to notice yet another ill-kempt, reeking of alcohol, foul tempered Democrat in the US Senate?


6 posted on 11/24/2008 6:29:44 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Good point


7 posted on 11/24/2008 6:31:40 PM PST by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW ,)
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To: pillut48
NI>NO DEMONCRAT MAJORITY IN CONGRESS!! CHECKS AND BALANCES!!

Ummmm.... a little late for that hope. The Democrats extended their majority by a bunch. Still no "super-majority"... but still... Add too that figure the worthless RINO population and it doesn't really matter. Obama will get whatever he wants.

8 posted on 11/24/2008 6:33:09 PM PST by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
It was a district that Franken won so I would imagine he really wants “ALL” the votes to count.
9 posted on 11/24/2008 6:34:37 PM PST by tobyhill (Obama is a lying wimp and anyone who supports him is one too!)
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To: muawiyah

Me...it’s NOT coming from my people. Ramsey County is the best - great schools, excellent business atmosphere, and other than the fact that my original home is now a Rainbow Foods....


10 posted on 11/24/2008 6:50:26 PM PST by NordP (PALIN POWER: She's Reagan in heels, Teddy Roosevelt in a dress & like Rummy at a press conference!)
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To: CPT Clay

Let me add further, “humorless” ~ Franken is little different from his soulmate Chucky Schumer.


11 posted on 11/24/2008 6:53:58 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
WHEN THE F is this freakin circus gonna end?? After this recount will there be another and another, than another etc....THIS CHET IS GETTING OLD REAL QUICK!!
12 posted on 11/24/2008 7:02:28 PM PST by RoseofTexas (God sees all and none will escape His judgment!)
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To: tobyhill

I posted a thread earlier about a Franken campaign staffer being a supposed “non-partisan” vote counter. They busted her for it and she claimed that no one is really non-partisan.


13 posted on 11/24/2008 7:43:11 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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14 posted on 11/24/2008 8:31:33 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: TheBattman

I meant super-majority, was seeing red when I wrote this. :-)

2 more years of a do-nothing Congress. I hope the rest of voting America buys a clue and dumps the whole bunch in 2010!!!


15 posted on 11/25/2008 8:40:38 AM PST by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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