www.powerlineblog.com — When the polls closed Tuesday evening, Minnesota's Secretary of State's office showed that Norm Coleman had a 725-vote win in his closely contested race against Al Franken. By the next morning, however, Coleman's victory was already shrinking. As various precincts and county auditors have ...
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Good News! Senate May Decide Whether to Seat Coleman or Franken
Weekly Standard Blog —
... The way that this election is being handled right now leads to doubts over the fairness of the process. And those doubts are only exacerbated by the assertion of Al Franken's lawyer that ...
Minnesota learns the lesson of Florida: Own the choke points
TigerHawk —
Sigh. Once again we have an election in which the difference in vote totals is within the margin of error for counting votes, the United States Senate race in Minnesota. There is the whiff of fraud . Last night at around 7:30, a precinct in Mountain Iron, St. Louis County, mysteriously updated its vote total to add 100 new votes--all 100 for Barack Obama and Al Franken. Mountain Iron uses optical scanning, so the Coleman campaign asked for a copy of the tape documenting the ballots cast on election night. St. Louis County responded by providing a tape that includes the ...
Evidence of Election Fraud Mounts in Minnesota
PoliGazette —
... was decided in a political and legal circus culminating in the Bush v Gore Supreme Court decision, claims of election fraud have formed a key foundation of political debate on the ideological left. Alas, it appears that fiction may have become reality in Minnesota. Only this time, the villains are not nefarious Republican computer hackers sabotaging Diebold voting machine software, but rather more traditional corruption among state and local electioneering officials. Powerline reports on some odd irregularities in the process of “updating” votes — ...
Minnesota Recount: Getting around the safeguards
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... anyway (via Power Line ): Just as Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was explaining to reporters the recount process in one of the narrowest elections in Minnesota history, an aide rushed in with news: Pine County’s Partridge Township had revised its vote total upward — another 100 votes for Democratic candidate Al Franken, putting him within .011 percentage points of Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. The reason for the change? Exhausted county officials had accidentally entered 24 for Franken instead of 124 when the county’s final votes were tallied at 5:25 Wednesday morning. ...
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room —
... - M.K. Ham, The Weekly Standard [image] Get Engaged for Saxby Chambliss - RedState [image] Boenher Makes His Case - Steve Benen, Political Animal [image] Rumor Patrol: Plouffe for Senate? - Marc Ambinder [image] One for the Mutts - Adam Serwer, TAPPED [image] Lieberman with a Gavel: Unacceptable - Kagro X, Daily Kos [image] The First Big Gaffe?? - A. Carpenter, Townhall.com [image] What's Happening in Minnesota? - Power Line [image] It's Not a Negotiation - ...
Alert the Media, and other notes: Hugh Hewitt
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... , guest-hosted tonight by Carol Platt Leibau, at 6:20 CT tonight. We’ll be talking about the Minnesota recount, as will John Hinderaker of Power Line . Don’t miss it! Tomorrow, I’ll also spend an hour with David Strom and Margaret Martin of the Minnesota Free Market Institute on ...
Surveillance video: Al Franken "finds" another 1,000 votes
Doug Ross @ Journal —
Is it just me, or does Al Franken appear to be stealing a Minnesota Senate seat from Norm Coleman ? Eh, it's not just me . [image] Powerline's three-part series ( Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 ) is a must-read. Richard Baehr adds: Al Franken and a highly partisan Secertary of State are collaborating to steal the Senate race in Minnesota. Though an official recount has not yet begun, in the days since the election, new Franken votes have appeared in a few counties, and Norm Coleman votes have disappeared. Much like landslide Lyndon Johnson's ...
Rightwing Conspiracy Theory Bloggers Don Tinfoil Hats for Franken/Coleman U.S. Senate Race in MN
The BRAD BLOG —
... The only thing that's particularly clear from Hinderaker's desperate and ill-composed screed over at his Republicanist blog, is that he has no clue what he's talking about. Being the generous fellow that I am, however, and more interested in helping to assure the person who actually received the most votes gets to be the winner of the election than I am in any particular candidate "winning" it, allow me to help him with a few of his misconceptions about the U.S. Senate race in MN, and about elections in general... ...
I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough
Politics Daily —
... towns use optical scanning to ensure the integrity of votes. Mountain Iron is one of those towns, and Coleman campaign asked for the tapes in order to verify the amazingly beneficial new votes. The tape is dated November 2nd ... as in not election day. The county board of elections claims they cannot produce the election night tape. One hundred mysterious, unaccounted for votes, all mysteriously uniform in supporting the Democrat party line. They've since provided additional "explanations" which are even more questionable. I'd call that an irregularity. I guess Franken doesn't. ...
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What's happening in Minnesota? part 8
www.powerlineblog.com 11/14/2008 — Al Franken is waging a campaign to overturn the results of Minnesota's Senate election based on a series of deceitful allegations. On this score the fraudulent sob story involving the 84-year-old stroke victim whose ballot was supposedly rejected ...
Al Franken is waging a campaign to overturn the results of Minnesota's Senate election based on a series of deceitful allegations. On this score the fraudulent sob story involving the 84-year-old stroke victim whose ballot was supposedly rejected ...
What's happening in Minnesota? part 2
www.powerlineblog.com 11/8/2008 — Yesterday John Hinderaker explored "What's going on in Minnesota?" with the late arriving-votes that have reduced Norm Coleman's lead over Al Franken from 726 votes with 100 percent of precincts reporting on Wednesday morning to 221 votes as of this ...
Yesterday John Hinderaker explored "What's going on in Minnesota?" with the late arriving-votes that have reduced Norm Coleman's lead over Al Franken from 726 votes with 100 percent of precincts reporting on Wednesday morning to 221 votes as of this ...
Minnesota is the new Florida
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings Well, not exactly. I mean, it's not like the 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 ...
By Michael J.W. Stickings Well, not exactly. I mean, it's not like the 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 ...
TheHill.com
thehill.com 12/3/2008 — Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken’s campaign said Wednesday that the comedian has taken the lead in his race against Sen. Norm Coleman (R). Franken’s lawyer, Marc Elias, has been pressing for the media to focus on the campaign’s ...
Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken’s campaign said Wednesday that the comedian has taken the lead in his race against Sen. Norm Coleman (R). Franken’s lawyer, Marc Elias, has been pressing for the media to focus on the campaign’s ...
Hold Your Horses, Minnesota
www.fivethirtyeight.com 12/18/2008 — The State of Minnesota's Canvassing Board has finished adjudicating challenges brought to the Board by Al Franken. They will begin evaluating challenges brought by Norm Coleman's campaign tomorrow. The Star Tribune has logged 391 challenges made by ...
The State of Minnesota's Canvassing Board has finished adjudicating challenges brought to the Board by Al Franken. They will begin evaluating challenges brought by Norm Coleman's campaign tomorrow. The Star Tribune has logged 391 challenges made by ...
What's happening in Minnesota? part 4
www.powerlineblog.com 11/11/2008 — The single most illuminating explanation of the shifting Coleman-Franken election results that I have found since the numbers started shifting after 100 percent of precincts had Wednesday morning is this column by John Lott :
When voters woke ...
The single most illuminating explanation of the shifting Coleman-Franken election results that I have found since the numbers started shifting after 100 percent of precincts had Wednesday morning is this column by John Lott :
When voters woke ...
Franken is Winning, and Coleman Knows It
www.fivethirtyeight.com 12/20/2008 — Minnesota's Canvassing Board this afternoon completed the bulk of its review of challenged ballots. The Canvassing Board ruled upon 1,325 challenges, according to numbers prepared by the Star Tribune , including 852 challenges brought by the Coleman ...
Minnesota's Canvassing Board this afternoon completed the bulk of its review of challenged ballots. The Canvassing Board ruled upon 1,325 challenges, according to numbers prepared by the Star Tribune , including 852 challenges brought by the Coleman ...
In Minnesota, End of the Beginning Starts Today
www.fivethirtyeight.com 1/3/2009 — UPDATE (9:48 AM): The state will now begin counting the ballots; see The Uptake for live video coverage. The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on Coleman's petition, nor was the recount team in St. Paul willing to delay the counting until it heard from ...
UPDATE (9:48 AM): The state will now begin counting the ballots; see The Uptake for live video coverage. The Supreme Court has not yet ruled on Coleman's petition, nor was the recount team in St. Paul willing to delay the counting until it heard from ...
Counting Minnesota & Watching the Watchers
www.bradblog.com 11/21/2008 — We've predicted since Election Day that Al Franken's chances of winning the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota are excellent. News tonight , out of the state where a manual count of the paper ballots began today, may already be bearing out that ...
We've predicted since Election Day that Al Franken's chances of winning the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota are excellent. News tonight , out of the state where a manual count of the paper ballots began today, may already be bearing out that ...
Franken The Likely Winner As Minnesota Recount Heads To Finish Line
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/18/2008 — Don't look now, but it looks like Al Franken may win the Minnesota Senate race.
A series of developments in the last few days have given the very strong impression that Al is suddenly in a position to prevail -- and a resolution of the fight might ...
Don't look now, but it looks like Al Franken may win the Minnesota Senate race.
A series of developments in the last few days have given the very strong impression that Al is suddenly in a position to prevail -- and a resolution of the fight might ...
Senate: 60 is still possible —
First Read 11/7/2008
From NBC’s Doug Adams The Democrats' road to 60 Senate seats isn't dead yet.
Yes, it's a long road, with a lot of twists and turns and "ifs," but it's still possible.
With the win in Oregon yesterday, they now have picked up six, and ...
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