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Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman…
“At the moment, Franken has a 225-vote lead,” after the weekend counting of what were deemed the last uncounted absentee ballots, said Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a Democrat who oversaw the process.
Ritchie said unless the supreme court acts on Coleman’s request and orders more ballots to be counted, he will reconvene the state’s Canvassing Board on Monday to certify Franken as the winner of the November 4 contest.
Even so, Coleman’s campaign said it will likely challenge the result, which would require the state supreme court’s chief justice to appoint three judges to investigate its claims…
The recount of some 2.4 million votes cast for the pair has swung back and forth over several weeks. Coleman initially held the edge, but his narrow victory margin necessitated the recount under state law.
“The recount has been done so precisely, and so transparently,” it would be difficult to envision a challenge succeeding, Ritchie said.
If that’s the case, do you think that will keep the Republicans from dragging it out?
#80 – ‘tempt
>>Here I am ready to reveal my source
#80 – ‘tempt
We’re on tenterhooks, Temptie! When you provide that proof, I want to write to MY senators and congressman to protest this outrage.
Where’s the beef?
Contempt for the truth: What a douche.
#83 bobbo
Wow if it isn’t bobbo! I’m surprised you took your face out of Mustard’s butt long enough to toss an insult. I guess that makes you an enema.
Contempt for the truth: no, I also took time to link to a site reporting NO COUNTY in Minnesota has 9578 registered voters. (#71). So, different websites can report different numbers==but any website has more credibility than anyone advertising themselves as “Contempt for the Truth.”
Did you pick that name or was it court ordered in your release program?
#84 – ‘tempt
Aw gosh, son. Make it easy on yourself. Just admit that you were lying, and in your bitterness over Normie losing, you just made up some figures to support your allegation of voter “fraud”.
No place in the state of Minnesota reported more votes than they had registered voters. Not a one. Not Ramsey County, not Hennepin County, not Anoka County, not Mille Lacs County, not Kandiyohi County, no county. Not even Lac Qui Parle County, in case you were going to try and say that the lake told you about the “fraud”.
Just like with Martha Stewart and Richard Nixon, the coverup is always worse than the crime.
So admit it, won’t you? You lied to us, ‘temptie.
‘tempt? Tempie? 9,724 votes? 9578 voters?
Come on, son. You can do it.
tweedlee deedlee deet, tweedlee deedlie deet ….. (whistling, drumming fingers on table top)…
‘tempt, are you going to provide the data, or not? You know….9,724 votes? 9578 voters?
You can do it, son. If you try.
‘tempt? Are ye out there, little fella? Having any luck with The Google?
‘temp? Any update?
I Don’t really want to get in the middle between Mustard and temp, but…
The WJS did have a story about damaged ballots, that could be the reason for the mis-match between voters and votes.
“Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.”
WSJ Jan 5, 2009
online.wsj.com/article/SB123111967642552909.html
#91 – Big Boy
>>The WJS did have a story about damaged
>>ballots, that could be the reason for the
>>mis-match between voters and votes.
Well, Biggie, it wasn’t exactly a “story” as in a vetted, researched, NEWS ARTICLE.
It was an unsigned editorial on the Opinion page in a newspaper whose Opinion pages is world-renowned for it’s right-wing views. No source to back it up. People can say anything they want to in an editorial, a letter to the editor, or a blog posting.
In other words, the moral equivalent of an off-hand remark by Loofah Pad O’Reilly or Anal Cyst Limbaugh.
So.
I’m still waiting for ‘temptie to provide some evidence of his absurd allegation…it’s looking more and more as though he heard it on the Loofah Pad or Anal Cyst show, as I seriously doubt he reads the WSJ. He may have given it a shot after Murdoch bought the paper, but abandoned the attempt after realizing that his reading comprehension was no match for the newspaper.