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Norm Coleman Accused of Faking Website Crash
Politics Daily —
... voters crashed the ColemanForSenate.com website on Wednesday. The Al Franken campaign told FOX 9 the crash was faked, pointing to an explanation on mnpublius.com.Now, as (alleged) hoaxes go, this isn't even the best one in this election. Had Coleman shown up to a press conference with "I'm good enough, I'm strong enough, and doggone it, people like me" carved onto his face, that would have been something. But there is an amusing side to this story. From mnpublius.com: They're completely lying. Here's why: 1. colemanforsenate.com ...
Coleman Camp Looking For Voters -- By Printing Their Names
TPM Election Central —
... that this information was legally confidential before now -- anyone with the time and resources could have put it together -- but no campaign had previously taken the step of publicizing it to this degree in a public data-dump.
Back in November and December, the Franken campaign was publicizing individuals who had their ballots rejected. But these were all people who spoke with the Franken campaign and either consented or directly participated in the publicity.
There is also some question over whether the coleman camp faked a Web site crash as a way of ...
Team Coleman Fakes Website Crash
Daily Kos —
So how desperate are Norm Coleman diehards? Pretty desperate, judging by the latest comedy from Coleman-land. It started out looking like a good media day for Coleman when a Coleman partisan posted the following blog item, quickly picked up by local media: "THOUSANDS OF HITS CRASH COLEMAN WEBSITE" ST PAUL – Information recently added to the Coleman for Senate website, whereby people can find out which Minnesota voters the Franken campaign is trying to disenfranchise, has resulted in the website being inundated by tens of ...
'Slow-Motion Comedy Show': Days 4 & 5 of the Coleman/Franken U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
The BRAD BLOG —
... But the site didn't crash, according to Aaron Landry at MN Publius. "The stunt is a completely fabricated lie", meant only to raise attention to his list of rejected voters, said Landry, who offered evidence that Coleman's IT specifically set the site in order to make it appear that it had crashed. ...
More Franken-Coleman: Fix Your Frickin’ Website, Norm!
Firedoglake —
... that his website was allegedly crashed by thousands of people looking to see if their absentee ballots were on Norm's list of rejected absentee ballots. Local blogger MNPublius showed evidence indicating that Norm's people may have 'crashed' their own site by hiding it for a period of time so they could blame the disappearance on being overwhelmed by visitors. IT security consultant Adria Richards decided to investigate the situation -- and found a ...
