Posted on 11/09/2010 10:08:58 PM PST by BAW
Have you noticed in just about every....I mean every close race where they are counting the votes...the democrat ALWAYS...I mean ALWAYS produces a bushel load of absenee ballots out of no where.
I would if it meant defeating a RINO
Yeah, you’re right. Who cares about rules, laws and other established practices.
I see a POS Senator out of Minnesota, his name is Franken. HIs side got the upper hand and basically stole the election.
I say no more compromises, business as usual...let’s all get alone, KUMBAYA, John McCAin Lindsay Graham etc style of politics...
It’s time that we stand up to this tyranny whether it comes from the left or people like Murkowski....
We made some headway this time...2012 we finish the job....
Rules are rules....plain and simple.
>>> the democrat ALWAYS...I mean ALWAYS produces a bushel load of absenee ballots out of no where.
First, these are two republicans. One not in favor to many here but still a republican.
Secondly, these are write-in ballots. I think the absentee ballots are scheduled to be counted next week. Since Miller was on the regular ballot and Murkowski was a WRITE-IN CANDIDATE, it’s natural most would be for her.
Thirdly, as I understand it from other threads the absentee ballots are primarily from the military. Not from “no where”.
So they are going to define using discretion? Then it would not be discretion, correct?
Of all of the theories as to why a write-in for “Lisa Merkowski” or “Leeza Mukowsky” should not be counted for Princess Lisa, the one about people casting protest votes by intentionally misspelling her name is the only one that may hold water given the decades-old movement towards counting votes that were technically cast incorrectly but where the voter’s intent is clear. That’s what the Miller campaign needs to shout through the rooftops: that it is impossible to discern voter intent on a ballot cast for a “Lisa Murcowski” because if someone was casting an anti-Murkowski write-in as a protest against her write-in candidacy that’s one of the possible ways that he’d declare his dissatisfaction.
I wasn’t referring to this race. I’m well aware that they are both republicans.
There are several elections that are still too close to call between republicans and democrats....the dems find some way always to come up with the lost ballots.
I suspect Murkowski will do whatever she can to win.
She’s a flea. She should be stopped. I expect her to vote with democrats if she happens to get elected.
Miller should fight this to the Supreme Court....
The decision turned on equal protection AND due process.
"Upon due consideration of the difficulties identified to this point, it is obvious that the recount cannot be conducted in compliance with the requirements of equal protection and due process without substantial additional work."Due process requires, among other things, regularity of process. Where the law is abandoned in favor of unfettered "discretion" and ad hoc procedures, due process has been violated.
Career politicians make me sick to my stomach....
do we want him to win that way?....
if the list was an official list passed out by the state then the votes for even those who “did not qualify” should count......otherwise, its like the state is putting out false names and engineering the vote...
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
Thomas Jefferson
I agree with your sentiment...
but the more I think about it, if this isn't fought, than it changes precident in a bad way.....
from now on, people will think they can just skip the primary and run as a write in, because now its official that the state can pass out legal list of write ins, which they never did before....now they want the intent of the voter to count, with the intent being ascertained by election officials, and you know how subjective that could be...
the other thought I had was it odd how Cow got these supposed votes.....we know she had massive Indian and oil money .....we know that she had people in official positions preaching for her...she seemed very, very sure of herself....like she knew she was going to win.....does anyone suppose she cooked the books so to speak?
Yes. Provided a proper spelling, and the good citizen could not transfer that to a ballot??
Strike threeeeeeee!
That was only part of the issue. The other part was essentially the fact that you can't change the rules of the game after the game has been started (and even more so after the game is finished). Election law must be followed for the election; changes to the law apply to the next election, not the current one.
I also read, at the time, that Alaska had a law the prohibited the loser in the primary from running as a write in. Actually, it may be the same law you are addressing. The cut off date to running as a write-in preceded the primary election.
remember how it all started?...."someone" protested that they think they voted "wrong" on the ballot because Buchannans' name was on it and too close to Gores, or some such rot...
The SCOTUS ruled 7-2 that a state cannot change election laws for only select areas (equal protection) and 5-4 that there wasn’t time to correct the problem before the certification deadline.
FWIW
From another thread...
To: Bean Counter
The Lt. Gov. was on Levin last night and stated that there is a panel of five that will dicide “voter intent” when it comes to correct spelling of names. Mis-spelled names will not be atumatically tossed.
14 posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 1:41:07 AM by Hypo2
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To: Hypo2
Well, Levin schooled the Lt.Gov. on that false notion, and Joe Miller has filed a court case to preclude their “intent” as against Alaskan Election Law. Lisa and the Alaska GOP need to be tossed in the nearest landfill, and covered like the rotten garbage they are!
15 posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:54:40 AM by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !! Â)
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