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MN-SEN: Coleman: Count the ballots cast!
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... The Democrats are trying to steal a Senate seat in Minnesota.
The Coleman campaign is trying to block the counting of 32 ballots
because they were riding around with a Democratic election official
for 3 days. Surely you can trust those right? From the
AP: ...
Minnesota is the new Florida
The Reaction —
... outcome of the presidential election depends on the outcome of Minnesota's Senate election or anything, but, still, the extremely close race between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, with a recount looming, has come to resemble what happened in Florida in 2000. Coleman was up by 725 votes on election night. By Friday afternoon, the race had narrowed to just 239 -- see my post from Friday on the developments up until then. Here's the latest: A judge ruled Saturday that 32 ...
Florida Rewind
N/A —
No joke: vote by vote, Minnesota 2008 looks more and more like Florida 2000.
Here come da judge.
more vote for him, al franken
skippy the bush kangaroo —
norm coleman lost his bid to block 32 absentee votes from being counted in the minnesota senatorial race. ksax: a judge ruled saturday that 32 new absentee ballots will be counted in the race for u.s. senate. coleman's campaign learned of the new ballots friday ...
Coleman-Franken 08 = Rossi-Gregoire 2004?
California Conservative —
... me that they’re still doing “quality control” and adding in the names of some of the absentee voters. Even that wouldn’t explain the entire discrepancy, as there appear to be discrepancies with the polling place and provisional vote counts as well. I’ve asked the Elections Office for further clarification and will convey their explanation as soon as I receive one.
Fast forward to Coleman-Franken, 2008. Here’s Fritz Knaak’s quote on the matter:
A judge ruled Saturday ...
Is Gov. Pawlenty a shameless “election fraud” propagandist?
HorsesAss.Org —
... The “car ballot” story emerged Saturday from the mouth of Coleman lawyer Fritz Knaak, who, according to AP, told reporters, “We were actually told ballots had been riding around in her car for several days, which raised all kinds of integrity questions.” ...
suggestion to the obama administration
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... the “car ballot” story emerged saturday from the mouth of coleman lawyer fritz knaak, who, according to ap, told reporters, “we were actually told ballots had been riding around in her car for several days, which raised all kinds of integrity questions.” ...
Eric Hananoki: Coleman's Recount Shenanigans
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , the car story emerged on November 8 from "Coleman lawyer Fritz Knaak, who, according to AP, told reporters, 'We were actually told ballots had been riding around in her car for several days, which raised all kinds of integrity questions.' Knaak never provided a source and did not return two MinnPost calls for comment. However, he was already backing off his story at the same press event. As that day's Pioneer Press ...
Franken Def. Coleman
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
238 days--over two thirds of a year--after Election Day, Al Franken has won his U.S. Senate race against Norm Coleman, as the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in his favor 5-0 after the protracted legal battle that saw an election recount, allegations of unconstitutionality by Coleman's lawyers and of fraud by partisan observers, and 32 absentee ballots allegedly left in an election official's car. Read the opinion ...
