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Stealing Minnesota: Al Franken Wants To Count Empty Ovals, Not Marked Ovals
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Remember Al Fraken's undervote theory? He wants to count as votes
for himself ballots with no mark in his oval, though the person
voted for every other Democrat.
He claims that the voter's intention was clearly to vote for
him, even though there is no mark by his name because the voter
voted for every other Democrat on the ballot.
Below is a ballot from Plymouth, MN. Can you tell for
whom that person intended to vote?
I bet you won't be surprised to learn Al Fraken is contesting
that ...
Franken Making Dubious Ballot Challenges
Politics Daily —
... ballots which they think are unjustly being counted for an opponent. According to The Skepticians blog, the below ballot was challenged by the Franken recount observers on the grounds that the voter made an "X" inside the bubble for Coleman. ...
Matt Lewis: Stealing Minnesota
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... Posted by: Matt Lewis at 11:31 AM According to The Skepticians blog, Al Franken intends to challenge ballots such as this one (they say this ballot is from Plymouth, MN). [image] Clearly, this person's clear intent was to vote for Coleman ... could you disagree??? ...
POLITICS: Keep Counting Until You Win
Baseball Crank —
... - more than Franken or Norm Coleman, who each got 42% (1.211 million votes). Obviously, a fair number of people on both sides of other races were not as enthused about the two Senate candidates. One reason was that there was a serious third party challenger in the race - Dean Barkley, who got 15% of the vote. A truly accidental undervote could just as easily have been a Barkley voter. This is why it makes sense to count only actual votes as votes.
Then take a look at an example of a Coleman vote that Franken's people say is unclear.
Now, ...
Franken Gains on Coleman Again on Day 2 of U.S. Senate Race Hand Count in MN
The BRAD BLOG —
... By way of a few of the latest examples, they post an item from someplace called The Skepticians by James Richardson which argues (without evidence): ...
