Posted on 03/31/2009 2:51:20 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
First Recount Ruling Benefits Franken By Shira Toeplitz Roll Call Staff March 31, 2009, 5:36 p.m. . In another boost to Democrat Al Franken’s case in the ongoing Minnesota Senate recount trial, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that only 400 previously rejected absentee ballots will be delivered to the secretary of state to be reviewed.
With a margin of 225 votes separating Franken from Republican Norm Coleman, it’s unlikely that the additional ballots could swing the election in Coleman’s favor. An initial count of the ballots that were ordered to be reviewed showed that 167 of them were from the home counties of the Twin Cities, where Franken had a strong showing.
The pool of ballots is small compared with the approximately 1,350 absentee ballots that Coleman’s campaign wanted added to the final recount tally. What’s more, the three judges explicitly stated that not all 400 will be counted in the final total and instead will merely be reviewed by the court once they acquire more information. The judges ruled that these absentee ballots will be opened, sorted and counted in a courtroom beginning April 7.
The Tuesday decision is the first of what is expected to be several rulings in the recount trial that stemmed from the disputed 2008 Senate race. The ruling is expected to be the first of many that will decide whether Coleman or Franken received more votes in November.
Furthermore, Coleman has indicated that he intends to appeal the result to the state Supreme Court if the three judges do not rule in his favor.
The Senate can legally seat Franken at any time, although Republican leaders have threatened to filibuster any attempt by Democrats to seat him before all of Coleman’s legal options are exhausted.
What a shock.
Our Republic is no more... does anyone other than me even care?
LLS
With the way ZERO is charging ahead with his Anti-American Agenda, Franken the Comedian really will fit into Dinghy Haryy Reid’s Senate Just Fine! Maybe Franken will be just GROSS enough, that AMERICANS will finally Wake Up and REBELL!
The predictability of this is remarkable.
Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
This seat was gone the minute the 'Rats started "finding" so-called "lost" and/or "overlooked" boxes of ballots in the trunks of cars and such. The Coleman camp should have saturated the airwaves with protest ads the moment that crap started. At least build a sense of public outrage to put some pressure on the 'Rats and elected officials. They'd still cheat, but don't sit back on your butt and make it easy for them.
But they put their faith and trust in the courts. Big mistake. One thing we need to understand right now is that 'Pubs/conservatives will get no justice from the courts in this country. When it comes to "electing" 'Rats, the courts are just as corrupt as the election system.
What are you talking about? That didn't happen in this election.
Exactly, the re counts will keep on till Franken wins. This is so evil..
Minnesota....
Elected....
Al.....
Franken???????
What!?
I think we can now safely call Minnesota “The Sicko State.”
I do, but most of the sheeple are too lazy to get off their asses and do anything. They are too busy watching American Idol, Oprah and all of the other worthless crap on TV.
When good people do nothing, bad things happen.
>>>>>> That didn’t happen in this election. <<<<<<<<
From what little I’ve read that seems true.
Minnesotans elected the disgusting whackadoodle nutcase Franken freely and of their own accord.
Even insane people have free will.
Good God .. just have the two meet on the field with some blackpowder pistols and may God defend the Right.
“Since the initial counting of ballots on Election Day, caches of new Al Franken ballots have been mysteriously discovered on a regular basis.”
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/more_franken_ballots_found/
Franken is a disgusting, amoral pig.
His past is not a secret, it was made an issue, and the amoral voters-voted for him, not in spite of that past, but because of it.
That makes everyone who voted for him, also, a disgusting amoral pig.
Tell me this isn’t a sign of the apocalypse....Stuart Smalley as a politician. I just wonder which seal I heard break open?????
It is hopeless if all Coleman is doing is challenging piles of ballots here and there. The argument should be that the election was so close, and the recount process was so flawed, that the only equitable result is to order a new election.. but I am not sure if such an outcome would be allowed under MN law.
It seems like Coleman has had a rotten legal team from the outset of this mess.
I do.
I do. I’ve been mourning our country since the evening of Nov.4th. I’ve also been fighting for her. I feel better since I started fighting back. Glad you care too. I’ve sent many letters slaying lib liars since the election. It’s very theraputic, and I hope if millions of others are doing the same it is having some effect. Politicians are pretty dense, but maybe the unrest and disapproval of the thinking public will pentrate their elitist government hack skulls. It is time they worked for us, time they feared us, instead of us working for and fearing them. Cheers, better times are ahead! Revolution is in the air.
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