[MathDoc]

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.

Interesting. I have launched a door-to-door campaign in my state to gather preschool fingerpaintings that the parents are willing to label "Norm Coleman". Neither of us are gathering actual votes, but if Minnesota is willing to count one group of random papers along with real votes, I imagine they'll count the other group of random papers as if they were real votes too. Give me enough notice, and I can have more fingerpaintings than the commedian has affidavits. Does anyone want to submit a basket of Coleman campaign buttons and see if they count too?

[knarf]

This is all such bull$h!t !!

A ballot has no name ... how on earth can anyone go and ask the people that had their votes rejected when no one knows who they are????

I've never voted absentee, so I don't know if there is any ID on them or not ... and perhaps THAT's what he's doing ... and if so, any FReepers in Minn. had better get out and beat feet for Coleman.

[redhead]

Good grief. Isn’t there some way to put that little sh*tstain in JAIL???

[Keli Kilohana]

Whatever happened to a “secret ballot?” How can elections officials allow Franken to ask people how they voted?

[mkjessup]

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.

1.) HOW do those citizens KNOW their votes were improperly rejected? Were they informed by the Minnesota Secretary of State of that fact?

2.) IF those ballots were rejected, why would the grounds upon which they were rejected now be considered insufficient, and the ballots considered valid and acceptable? Were they lying then (about the ballots being invalid) or are they lying NOW (about them now being 'acceptable')?

3.) Franken and the 'Rats are phucking scum. THAT fact is absolutely valid and invulnerable to ANY challenge.

[buccaneer81]

a newly naturalized citizen who says he feels disenfranchised.

Did he say that in Spanish, Somali or Hmong?

[ElayneJ]

OK - how do we put an end to this nonsense? I feel like I’m living in the Twilight Zone.

[DustyMoment]

Franken is in desperation mode. His affidavits will likely be rejected unless someone is actually going to conduct an investigation to determine if there is validity to the claims in the affidavits.

What this amounts to is another election where he will try to sway the election with affidavits versus ballots. There will have to be a bunch of hearings and investigations to determine the validity the affidavits. If we go back to the 2000 election (which Algore lost, BTW) this seems to be the model that Franken is following. In the aftermath of the 2000 election in which claims were made in FloriDUH that large numbers of minorities were disenfranchised at the polls. The Civil Rights Commission conductive an extensive series of hearings across FloriDUH in response to the claims and were unable to find a single minority whose claims of disenfranchisement could be validated.

As a result, I believe that Franken will send up this trial balloon as the next possible step to steal the election and, assuming that doesn't work, he will then challenge it in court. We have to remember that Franken is unemployed and has failed as a “comedian”, failed as a radio talk show host and if he fails at stealing Coleman's Senate seat, he may have to take a job flipping burgers or working at Walmart to keep he family fed. He's definitely feeling the heat!!

[fwdude]

Coleman Lead Endangered by Franken Affidavits

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Both the Nov. 4 vote tally and the subsequent recount show that Coleman won the election. The affidavits presented by Franken would wipe out nearly a third of Coleman’s current 192-vote lead if accepted, however.

Looking at the article's title, please tell me if I'm missing something. Let's see, 192 vote lead minus 62 "vote" addition (entered into my trusty HP12C) equals... what?... 130. Again, am I missing something? Or is this that Democratic "new" math?

[Doctor Raoul]

You won’t see Al Franken looking for military who’s absentee ballots got trashed because the Dems don’t like the way they vote.

[chimera]

This is really getting absurd. Elections mean nothing in this country anymore. I mean, why bother to have them at all if the candidates can go back afterward and alter the results to come out like they want them? Just go out and find a bunch of people you know will support you and get them to sign affidavits to the effect that they were “illegally disenfranchised”, and force the elections board to go back and add to your totals. Under those “rules”, you can get “elected” anywhere to any post you want. Like I said, why bother with elections?