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| News from the Future: Franken Wins Recount in 2015 |
| 2008-12-04 |
| Coleman appeared to hold a decided advantage in the contest after he won the actual vote count in 2008. But as the dispute dragged on, the events following Election Day proved largely irrelevant -- minor skirmishes leading up to the legal, political and public relations battle that was to follow. After the seventh recount of the vote was completed in September 2009 -- settling nothing since both candidates challenged every vote cast -- Franken filed simultaneous legal proceedings in state and federal courts, before the European Commission of Human Rights and with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2010, Coleman suffered a setback when the Supreme Court issued its first decision on the contest. In what became known as the "Franken's Fools" decision, the court held that even those absentee ballots that voters forgot to mail must be counted. No forgotten ballots were ever recovered, but Franken's crack legal team assembled a group of Harvard psychologists who submitted expert testimony at trial establishing that the average Franken voter was twice as likely as the average Coleman voter to be chronically forgetful about life's basic tasks. |
| Posted by:Frozen Al |
| #3 Hell, why don't they just have a do-over? (BTW....I never ever want to hear another Minnesotan make a crack about Florida voters again....) |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2008-12-04 17:39 |
| #2 2016: Franken files suit to count potential votes from stoners to wasted to cast a vote. Claims 100% of that voter demographic. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-12-04 08:12 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-04 05:13 |