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To: Oldpuppymax

It might have been nice if the Coach had given us the details on why the votes were rejected. Nuns are good folks, but they have to follow the rules just like the rest of us. Democrats are snarkey and irreligious, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be right once in a while (broken clock syndrome). I find it hard to get worked up about this based on the lack of hard information.


8 posted on 05/16/2011 1:58:44 PM PDT by blau993
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I see no reason to ever give benefit of the doubt to Dems...


11 posted on 05/16/2011 2:02:37 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: blau993
It might have been nice if the Coach had given us the details on why the votes were rejected

The 18 nuns, a cloistered order, voted absentee. The city clerk delivered and picked up their ballots as usual and fed them into the machine. It turned out that NONE of them had had their ballots witnessed (the rule for absentee votes here).

The clerk said that they always allowed these ladies to vote this way (which is against the rules, BTW). Per the rules (since the ballots had already been counted) the canvassers removed the nuns' ballots, as well as all other absentees (24 in all) from the total number of ballots cast. Since nobody can actually identify an absentee ballot after it has been cast, the canvassers just removed 24 random ballots.

28 posted on 05/16/2011 3:13:49 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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