grandforksherald.com - 11/13/2008
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ST. PAUL An 84-year-old Beltrami County woman, whose election ballot was rejected, helped convince Al Franken's campaign to go to court seeking the names of all Minnesotans whose ballots were not counted last week. Franken campaign officials said the woman, a nursing home resident, told a ...
powerlineblog.com - 11/18/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
Norm Coleman will be certified the winner of
the contest for Minnesota's Senate seat by the state...
Canvassing Board today. Yesterday the Franken campaign asked the board not to certify the result until certain rejected absentee ballots are included in ...
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Coleman wins, Franken loses; recount begins tomorrow
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/12/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Although it might seem like we've already covered
all the ground there is to cover on the...
Minnesota recount process, we may be able to draw some additional lessons from Florida's recount experience in 2000. In 2001, the National Opinion Research ...
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Minnesota Recount: Number of Discrepancies May Be Low
powerlineblog.com - 11/14/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
The Al Franken is using a series of
lawsuits to try to bully the ex-comedian's way into...
the United States Senate. So far, though, they aren't going too well. Franken has demanded that Minnesota counties give him lists of would-be voters whose ...
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
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Stealing The Minn. Senate Race, With A Little Help From The Minn. Sec. Of State - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Who in the fucking hell could have ever imagined in their wildest and most terrifying post-LSD trip nightmares that the balance of the US Senate would be in the hands of this fucking idiot Al Franken?
Beltrami County woman’s ballot rejection leads to suit
Don Davis - (Grand Forks Herald)
ST. PAUL
An 84-year-old Beltrami County woman, whose election ballot was rejected, helped convince Al Franken’s campaign to go to court seeking the names of all Minnesotans whose ...
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Power Line —
... The centerpiece of Franken's Ramsey County lawsuit was a sob story involving an 84-year-old Beltrami County woman whose ballot was supposedly rejected because her signature did not match the one on file with the county. The reason, Franken alleged, was that the woman had suffered a stroke: ...
Al Franken Campaign Wanted To Violate The Secrecy Of The Ballot Box
Say Anything —
The Franken campaign is demanding the names of absentee voters based on one Beltrami county woman’s claim that her absentee ballot was wrongfully rejected, and some counties in Minnesota have complied, but after collecting some of those ballots the Franken campaign backed away from their challenge.
Here’s the initial report from the Grand Forks Herald:
An 84-year-old Beltrami County woman, whose election ballot was rejected, helped convince Al Franken’s campaign to go to court seeking the names of all Minnesotans whose ballots were not counted last week.
Franken campaign officials said the woman, ...
Lies And the Lying SOB’s That Peddle This BS
California Conservative —
... state they have absolutely no record of such an individual, we do know that this fabricated story was presented to the media and the public as fact, when it was known to be fiction. We believe that this new information is both troubling and disappointing, and applaud local election officials in Beltrami County for efforts to ensure a fair, legal and transparent election.”
Let’s go through this step-by-step. Here’s what the Grand Forks Herald reported Thursday:
An 84-year-old Beltrami County woman, whose ...
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