These are new times - I have a laptop operated drone I can control from my dock
Posted on 12/13/2008 4:14:44 AM PST by flattorney
ABSTRACT: The still-undecided Senate election in Minnesota appeared to be entering the home stretch on Friday, hinging on perhaps 1,500 absentee ballots that were rejected by local precinct officials and might be tallied by late next week. “Our aim is to complete the process by the end of the day on the 19th,” Mark Ritchie(1), the Minnesota secretary of state, said after the state’s Canvassing Board formally asked the 87 counties in Minnesota to recheck all rejected absentee ballots for errors.
But the bitterly fought recount process had apparently returned to the status quo. Lawyers for Mr. Coleman, who led Mr. Franken by 687 votes out of 2.9 million cast, said they would ask the State Supreme Court to create a framework for how the counties should review their rejections of absentee ballots and asked that local officials hold off until then. The lead recount lawyer for Mr. Franken, Marc Elias, called the move by the Coleman camp “cynical” and “desperate.” “It’s an extraordinary action to try to halt this count and re-disenfranchise these voters,” Mr. Elias said.
Because the counties are under no formal obligation to recheck their piles of rejected ballots, it remained unclear what each county and municipality might do. The unanimous decision Friday by the bipartisan Canvassing Board, led by Mr. Ritchie, to ask the counties to reassess the rejected ballots came after preliminary reports from the counties showed error rates that Mr. Ritchie called shocking. A preliminary tally by 49 counties showed error rates averaging just over 13 percent, for a total of 638 improperly rejected ballots. Mr. Ritchie said the estimate of 1,500 votes was based on the assumption that the average error rate would hold statewide. None of the wrongly rejected ballots have been counted by the Canvassing Board so far.
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They cannot selectively recount... either ALL counties recount or none of the do... Bush vs Gore... so they had better tread lightly and Constitutionally.
LLS
Keep countin’ until the ‘Rat wins, then announce “Democracy Prevails!”
Franken is a shameless piece of sh*t.
He is among his peers. There are many poliicians that are shameless.
The counting will stop the instant Franken has a lead.
I doubt the error rate is based on a statistically sound sample and the “errors” are really errors.
“Lawyers for Mr. Coleman, who led Mr. Franken by 687 votes out of 2.9 million cast, said they would ask the State Supreme Court to create a framework for how the counties should review”
Surprising, the NY Slimes says Coleman up by 687!!! Just a few days ago the belief was that Coleman was up by less than 200. Crazy times, here we are rooting for a RINO.
Let’s just have the civil war before we are too old to fight it...
Really! Whyn root for a RINO? Franken is the perfect rat Senator for 2009. I do not care if a RINO wins.
The 687 count includes votes that will be taken away from Coleman. 192 is about the lead after the recount.
Coleman has little chance to prevail. All rulings have gone to Franken’s favor. Yesterday the election commission voted to use the election day results showing 133 more votes than the manual recount. This bizarre decision will preserve 33 votes for Franken. The recount of the rejected absentee ballots will surely give Franken a lead of several hundred votes. I am not sure if these absentee voters will be able to recast their ballots as they did in Washington state. Coleman has little prospects to prevail.
The very Nanosecond.
Even RINOs add to the total and could be (not this year) the difference in who controls committees,etc.
Cutting off nose to spite face is never smart.
These are new times - I have a laptop operated drone I can control from my dock
Wasn’t that the Degregoire strategy in WA?
WTF? They will report more votes than voters?
They voted to ignore the number of votes found on the manual recount. They will count the number of votes registered on election night. Coleman has several similar cases that went against him. They voted to use the manual recount totals instead of the election night totals.
“They cannot selectively recount... either ALL counties recount or none of the do... Bush vs Gore... so they had better tread lightly and Constitutionally.”
Ok, but does this apply to statewide elections ?
In Bush v. Gore, the supremes ruled it was a nationwide election and thus scotus had jurisdiction. They could argue that a senate race is for a place at a national body or scotus might kick it back to the states.
Wrong. RINOS are the problem. Might as well have Crats. Example...McLame.
LLS
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