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| State okays counting incorrectly rejected absentee ballots |
| 2008-12-13 |
| Democrat Al Franken won a pair of victories Friday before the state board overseeing the Senate recount, including a decision that as many as 1,500 incorrectly rejected absentee ballots should be included. The board also opted to recommend use of election night results in a Franken-leaning Minneapolis precinct where 133 ballots went missing, a decision that could have cost him 46 votes if it had gone the other way. "It was a great day for democracy," Franken attorney Marc Elias said after a hearing that drew protesters urging use of rejected absentee votes. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 if it increased my chances of scoring, I'd speak fluently. Rosetta Stone wannabe? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-13 21:08 |
| #13 I see your point, Half. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-12-13 20:32 |
| #12 DeaconMan in your case for certain I can see it. But I wonder about my guys at school. If I knew that 1% of them would be able to speak French as well as JFM speaks English... I'd be beside myself with joy. I worry about them, I see little future in what they are being taught. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-12-13 20:13 |
| #11 Au Contraire, .5MT. I have fought the entrenched educational system for damned near 25 years. I taught my young'uns right. There is still a spark of reality that I hope will never be extingushed. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-12-13 20:06 |
| #10 Meh, much as I hate to admiter it.. RBee Frog speaks the truth here. It's all of us. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-12-13 19:59 |
| #9 Our nation deserves to disappear if we have that many idiots in it. OS excuse but if you don't like your nation's state and look for the guilty you should look at your mirror. You haven't cared about what your children were being teached and still less have you challnged, lobbied, sued the schools/universities who fed politics to your children instead of maths. Now your childerren barely know result of 2+2 and politically are perfect moonbats. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-12-13 18:20 |
| #8 The people of Minnesota also dumped conservative Rod Grams for a Wellsetone wannabe named Mark Dayton. Who had never done anything in his entire life other than be born into the Dayton (Daytons department stores - very popular in MN. Bought out by Marshall Fields) family. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2008-12-13 16:24 |
| #7 Yeah, but seriously, AL FRANKEN? How can you possibly excuse that vote? Obama is at least charismatic. Franken is an abarasive hack. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-12-13 15:24 |
| #6 "Are they really that damned stupid?" OS, the short answer isÂ…yes. Yes we are. But why narrow your disgust to a single state? ItÂ’s true that nearly half of the Minnesota electorate voted for an unqualified candidate with zero accomplishment based on the narrative that his RINO opponent is a conservative. Sound familiar? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2008-12-13 12:29 |
| #5 Just keep counting until the Democrat wins........ |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2008-12-13 12:06 |
| #4 dyslexic. sorry. (Using IE which has no spell check, unlike Firefox, which does). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-12-13 10:39 |
| #3 The 133 are onces that were mistakenly counted twice. Great Day for Democracy, yeah right Al, you asshole. Gawd, whay are the peopel of minnesot ao frikin stupid as to let Al Franken get within lawsuit distance of the US Senate? Are they really that damned stupid? Our nation deserves to disappear if we have that many idiots in it. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-12-13 10:38 |
| #2 Not quite yet OS. It's a confusing report (from MSNBC - whodathunkit) but so far it's only stolen by an administrative board which clearly points to the court for the next place to go. The bias creeping in involves the "incorrectly rejected" phrase. Who determined that? The facts are pretty thin on how or why they were rejected. The extra 46 votes the "comic" gained are another curiousity which a court might be interested in. That and the reference to the "judge" on the board is a final confusion. I don't doubt he's a judge, but not in this function. Presumably he has a JD, so it would be as accurate and irrelevant to call him a doctor for all that it matters. Hope Norm's counsel is on their toes. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2008-12-13 10:08 |
| #1 Stolen with the help of the courts. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-12-13 01:57 |