Minnesota Recount Almost Over - But Coleman Could Keep A Franken Win Bottled Up For Weeks »
Posted By ameliog 1 year ago in Political NewsThe Coleman campaign has publicly guaranteed that they will file an election contest, challenging the result in court. That would be a key development because Minnesota law actually prevents the issuing of a certificate of election to the winner until a contest proceeding is settled (unlike other states that will certify a win, and then allow the loser to pursue legal challenges if they want).
The bottom line here is that even if Coleman ultimately loses the recount plus the formal court contest, he could be able to drag out the seating of Franken for quite some time, well beyond next week's swearing of the 111th Congress.
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mesodude1 year ago
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"You just can't find more intelligent sounder minds then those two!"
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Now, now... How could you leave out Sarah Palin--the Mensa nominee of the year? I understand she's a voracious reader and we know she has a razor sharp knowledge of both foreign policy and Constitutional law. ;-P
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earthlingerer1 year ago
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Coleman's a liar, and obviously, a fool.
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His quote: "I oppose the legalization of marijuana because, as noted by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, marijuana can have serious adverse health affects on individuals. The health problems that may occur from this highly addictive drug include short-term memory loss, anxiety, respiratory illness and a risk of lung cancer that far exceeds that of tobacco products..."
He parrots the lies, and ignores the will of the public.
Franken already had "the meeting" with the people in Washington, he already is the "winner".-
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4thchance1 year ago
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"The health problems that may occur from this highly addictive drug include short-term memory loss, anxiety, respiratory illness and a risk of lung cancer that far exceeds that of tobacco products"
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"highly addictive drug"....That's funny.
Could you post a link to the comments you claim Coleman made? Or did you just make that up? I have a hard time believing anyone is that naive about the health effects of pot. I thought we got over the KILLER WEED crap back in the mid 1960s.
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4thchance1 year ago
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Good God, who's next on the democrat list to vote into power...
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Bill Aires and Charlie Mason? You really should try to find people who are sane, you really really should. If Al Franken is as good as you can do, then all I can say is WOW! There has to be millions of people who would be a better choice, but yet you chose Franken. I'm not real sure what to make of that. It must mean something...???
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mivan41 year ago
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This is why RECOUNTS should be illegal unless there is proven malfeasance in the original count. What makes people think that a second count is MORE fair it just adds confusion. During recount there is pressure applied by both sides to the re counters. Each time a ballot is handled it is LESS reliable - this has been proven, chads get knocked off etcetera! Counting machines have no party affiliation, but human counters do and are also prone to mistakes!
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Endoscopy1 year ago
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The chicanery going on by the Democrats needs to be challenged in court. Ballots just show up some with the wrong date on them ALL for Franken. When the hand count differs with the machine count and Coleman gets the better of it they take the machine count instead.
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And how the people complained about the voting machines would skew things. There would be no missing ballots coming from no where. Ballots with the wrong date on them. Paper ballots suck because of the fact that they can be played with. This election demonstrates that.-
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bubba21 year ago
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"chicanery"?? Spoken like a true "hater" (like you attempt to attribute to all non-Republicans).
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Prove it.
If you are questioning Minnesota's process, then you really do NOT pay attention. The 'recount' process has been going on for almost TWO months, and it has been VERY thorough and well audited and verified.
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jordan111 year ago
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Quite a mess. Makes me wonder if Minnesota is taking note that their election process is more than a bit flawed when you have to count over and over again. Personally, I think a run off election would be the fairest way to deal with it, assuming of course that election is counted properly.
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4thchance1 year ago
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I think the bottom line is this.
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If they insist on counting, recounting, searching & finding, recounting, searching and counting over and over, again and again and again. Then that CLEARLY tells us.
SOMETHING IS TRULY WRONG HERE!
What ever happened to:
Everyone votes, the votes are counted, and a winner is named?
What's so fricken difficult about that? Even if the win is by 1 vote only.
That one point seems to be acceptable in all it's other forms. Football score, a ruler, one inch is longer then 0 inches. One year older is one year older. One step ahead is one step ahead. If you get caught going over the speed limit, they don't allow you another try at it.
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willottica12 months ago
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Come on, 4th. Be honest. Coleman did not win. The original election count put him several hundred votes ahead. The lead was small enough to trigger an automatic recount by the laws of the state. It also meant that the absentee ballots and challenged ballots would have to be counted. Many of these were not counted in the first place, therefore the original count (which Coleman "won") was incomplete.
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No one has ever been declared the winner in this race by the officials in charge of it. It seems that Franken may be declared today. This could just as easily have gone the other way, but it didn't. With a heavily scrutinized recount, Franken seems to have emerged victorious.
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