Posted on 12/11/2008 4:19:02 PM PST by Chet 99
Democrat Al Franken has launched a door-to-door campaign in Minnesota to gather affidavits from voters and use them to defeat GOP incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.
Franken presented on Thursday 62 affidavits from Minnesota citizens who stated that their votes for Franken were improperly rejected. In past elections, such affidavits have all but forced election officials to count the votes in question.
Franken’s maneuver comes on the eve of a crucial meeting of the five-member Canvassing Board to decide the fate of absentee ballots. Local election officials throughout the state ruled that more than 12,000 absentee ballots were incorrectly filled out or otherwise were invalid.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune characterized Franken’s affidavits as “the latest attempt by the campaign to increase the pressure on the board to count absentee ballots that were improperly rejected.”
The Franken push includes a six-minute YouTube video portraying emotional appeals by voters who say their absentee ballots were improperly disqualified. One of the voters in the video is bedridden, another is recovering from heart surgery, and a third is a newly naturalized citizen who says he feels disenfranchised.
Coleman characterized the video as “shameless exploitation” intended to manipulate the election’s outcome, and a “new low” in Minnesota politics.
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Votes count. Not the results from a Kirby salesman going door to door.
Coleman should do the same thing. I’m sure the people who are responding to Franken are lying through their teeth. He has shown he is not better the Rod Blojobavich.
What a assortment of miserable pieces of offal the democrat party has become.
What do the folks up in Minnesota think about Franken and his conduct during this recount?
Isn’t this very similar to how Obama beat his political mentor in Chicago?
>>Votes count. Not the results from a Kirby salesman going door to door.<<
He can cherry pick. It is absurd on the face of it.
There are rules and one of those rules is the election day is the day votes count. You can’t back date what you did, or didn’t do, no matter how many affidavits you sign.
If you were too stupid to get it right, then you are too stupid to vote again.
Is this STILL going on? Three years from now, Franken’s going to finally claim that he’s ahead and should win.
This Franken fellow is acting just as desperate as one of his comic personas he portrayed on television.
Oh, the humanity...
Ding dong! Franken calling!
Or I should say “Ding dong calling”...
I see that Minnesota Democrats don’t want to give up the crown for most unethical Democrats to Illinois without a fight.
Isn't this similar to the tactic used by Gregoire to steal the gubernatorial election in Washington 4 years ago?
“Affadavits” ......Democrat-speak for LIES.....re: Clinton SPECIALIZED in AFFADAVITS!
This sounds like Frankenstein is attempting to conduct his own private Special Election, using affidavits instead of ballots.
How can this possibly be legal??
MN needs a do over. Without 0be on the ballot, all the ‘rats will not come out to vote.
Minnesota is the new Chicago - their squeaky clean image is tarnished.
The GOP better not let this low life tax cheat steal the senate seat.
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