Franken stealing the election

ziggy wrote:Who is "they"?

And who does Coleman say it's clearly for?

Armon Ayers wrote:

ziggy wrote:Who is "they"?

And who does Coleman say it's clearly for?

The election board. How is it that only votes cast for Franken are questioned and counted?

The state canvassing board finished up its second day of sorting through challenged ballots Wednesday and said it hoped to be done with all challenges in the U.S. Senate race by the end of the week. But Secretary of State Mark Ritchie said the board would not certify a winner Friday, and there were new signs that court challenges lie ahead and could push Minnesota's process of selecting a Senator into 2009.

(LEGAL ISSUE 1) One issue that could end up in court involves "duplicate" ballots -- ballots filled in on Election Day if there's something wrong with a voter's original ballot. For example, if a scanning machine rejects a voter's original ballot, election judges would help voters fill out a duplicate ballot to make sure the voter's votes are counted. On Wednesday, Norm Coleman's lawyers said they believe, in some cases, both duplicate and original ballots were counted during the recount. "There may be five, six, even as many as 12 or 14 (duplicate) votes" in a given precinct, said Coleman attorney Tony Trimble. But lawyers for Al Franken said Coleman "invented" the issue of duplicate ballots after he started to worry that Franken is winning the recount. "They have now invented a theory by which they can try to discredit the work of the recount and the work of this canvassing board," said Franken attorney Mark Elias. The five members of the canvassing did not come to a conclusion on how they would handle duplicate ballots.

(LEGAL ISSUE 2) The second issue addressed Wednesday that could lead to a lawsuit involves absentee ballots. Earlier in the day, the Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments from both campaigns after Coleman filed a petition to block the counting of absentee ballots that were improperly rejected on Election Day. Coleman lawyer Roger Magnuson, who represented George W. Bush in 2000, argued Minnesota would turn into Florida if the court let those ballots be counted as part of the canvass. Magnuson called it an "improvised solution" that would create the kind of confusion he saw in 2000. A Supreme Court ruling on the absentee ballots could come as soon as Thursday. A lawsuit by whichever campaign is not happy with the ruling could come soon after that.

By the end of the day Wednesday, the canvassing board finished sorting through Franken's entire stack of challenged recount ballots. There were 420 ballots in that pile after Franken withdrew several challenges.(1)

On Thursday, the panel will begin plowing through Coleman's estimated 1,000 challenges. Ritchie said he hoped the Coleman campaign would follow Franken's lead and eliminate challenges the board will see as frivolous.

(1) Latest available data is 415 Franken challenged ballots. CB ruled 234 for Coleman, 64 for Franken, 117 neither candidate. After Day 1 Coleman led by 264 votes. After Day 2, with the CB completing their review of Franken’s challenged ballots, Coleman's lead increased to 358.

Before the five-member canvassing board began reviewing challenges Friday, it rejected a request from the Coleman campaign to disqualify hundreds of ballots that the campaign argued were duplicates and had been counted twice.

G. Barry Anderson, a Supreme Court justice serving on the board, said the issue was not the board's to decide.

"While I think there is a serious issue here, the location, extent and remedy lie elsewhere," Anderson said

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IMO, Minnesotaians should be demanding a run off election.

sodbuster wrote:Well I think they have to follow the law.

And their law does not call for a runoff.

Whoever gets the most votes wins.

Just like there was no runoff in Fl when they quit counting and gave it to Bush.

sodbuster wrote:Well I think they have to follow the law.

And their law does not call for a runoff.

sodbuster wrote:Whoever gets the most votes wins.

sodbuster wrote:Just like there was no runoff in Fl when they quit counting and gave it to Bush.

sodbuster wrote:At least here they are trying to count all the ballots.

Before the five-member canvassing board began reviewing challenges Friday, it rejected a request from the Coleman campaign to disqualify hundreds of ballots that the campaign argued were duplicates and had been counted twice.

G. Barry Anderson, a Supreme Court justice serving on the board, said the issue was not the board's to decide.

"While I think there is a serious issue here, the location, extent and remedy lie elsewhere," Anderson said

Can a State pass a Law that affects the selection of a National Candidate?