To: flattorney
Minnesota Supreme Court sides with Coleman
Coleman for Senate Press Release
The Hill by Michael O'Brien
The state Supreme Court has sided with Sen. Norm Coleman (R) in Minnesota’s contested Senate race, ruling to largely exclude hundreds of ballots Al Franken (D) had sought to include in the recount. The court in part overturned a decision by the state’s Board of Canvassers to recommend that Minnesota’s counties open and tally more than 1,000 absentee ballots that were not counted for any stated, legal reason. In its decision, the court forbade the board to include any of those ballots in its final tally, except in limited circumstances laid out in the decision.
“We order candidates Norm Coleman and Al Franken and their campaign representatives, the Secretary of State, and all county auditors and canvassing boards to establish and implement a process...for the purpose of identifying all absentee ballot envelopes that the local election officials and candidates agree were rejected in error,” Associate Justice Helen M. Meyer wrote in the majority decision.
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It is obvious that many MSN reporters and political experts?, claiming the MN Supreme Court ruled against Coleman, have not read and understood the MNSC’s ruling. ~ FlA
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2 posted on
12/19/2008 2:24:33 PM PST by
flattorney
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To: flattorney
There’s a definite double standard going on by the canvassing board. With “improperly” rejected absentee ballots, they want to count them now. With the double counted votes, they’re saying “no, that isn’t for us to decide.”
What this is all about is posturing over who is going to be the plaintiff in the coming election contest lawsuit. The person walking in as the certified loser of the election has the decided disadvantage of meeting a burden of proof.
5 posted on
12/19/2008 2:28:29 PM PST by
Chet 99
To: flattorney
maybe the gop should go back and see if they can “find” 7million votes that should have gone to McCain LOL.
6 posted on
12/19/2008 2:28:40 PM PST by
sappy
To: flattorney
“We are disappointed the Franken Campaign would not join us in finding a resolution to this serious problem.I hope they're kidding. They've got to know that the only way Frankenstein can win is if there is NO resolution to this problem.
11 posted on
12/19/2008 3:00:34 PM PST by
The Anti-One
(So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.)
To: flattorney
Hold a runoff already!!!!!! This is madness!
12 posted on
12/19/2008 3:01:41 PM PST by
TenthAmendmentChampion
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To: flattorney
Everyone knows that DNC districts always have 110% voter turnout. Democracy is dead.
Pray for W and Our Troops
15 posted on
12/19/2008 3:30:10 PM PST by
bray
(Gov Palin isn't corrupt enough for DC)
To: flattorney
Has Mayor Dailey been imported to Minnisota to oversee the insertion of Frankendingle to the Senate??
16 posted on
12/19/2008 3:36:55 PM PST by
Vaquero
( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: flattorney
The officials are supposed to mark all such ballots as "duplicate" ballots and to segregate the original ballots which were damaged and therefore not counted on election night. The problem arose during the hand recount when duplicate ballots could not be found to match the originals because election officials had not marked them as duplicates on election night.How are they going to match up the originals and duplicates if the duplicates were not marked as such?
18 posted on
12/19/2008 3:59:35 PM PST by
randita
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I am still hopeful about this.
20 posted on
12/19/2008 4:44:08 PM PST by
Clintonfatigued
(If greed is a virtue, than corporate socialism is conservative)
To: flattorney
Why dont they just have a runoff?
Wasn’t there a third candidate that got close to 25% of the vote?
21 posted on
12/19/2008 5:01:29 PM PST by
Safrguns
To: flattorney; Chet 99; freekitty; bray; Clintonfatigued; justiceseeker93
12.19.08-20:00:
The Minnesota Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments from Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's campaign on why unmatched original and duplicate ballots shouldn't be counted in the U.S. Senate election. In an order filed late this afternoon, Associate Justice Paul Anderson said the
court would hear Coleman's case at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Coleman officials filed a motion for an emergency temporary restraining order this morning. Responding parties include the state Canvassing Board, which unanimously agreed today that the issue of original and duplicate ballots was beyond its authority to decide. The Coleman camp argues that counting original and duplicate ballots for which matches can't be found will result in a single vote being counted twice. About 100 of the 150 instances they cite occurred in Minneapolis, a staunchly DFL city that Franken won by a wide margin.
MAR
26 posted on
12/19/2008 10:29:43 PM PST by
flattorney
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29 posted on
12/20/2008 10:24:55 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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