I live in Europe and it was expensive sending my ballot back to Minnesota but I did because I wanted Franken to get my vote.  I hope he wins. Coleman is evil.

by Martha Rose Crow (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 44 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:50:20 PM

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I'm going to go out on a limb here.

I think, since the actual paper votes are going to be actually counted with the "voter's intent" in mind, and all the "spoiled" and "overvotes" are going to be counted under the watchful eye of a non-partisan and fair Secretary of State (thank you Secretary of State Project, THANK YOU!  THANK YOU!!!!!) that Frankin is going to win this election by about 15,000 votes by the time the counting is done.

That's right, I predict that the two HUNDRED vote deficit will become a fifteen THOUSAND plus majority.  (Prop 8 opponents in California, gives you something to think about, no?  All those other stolen elections?  Something to think about, no?)

Not that Al deserves it, after deriding the Election Integrity movement so much in 2004 and refusing to offer up his Air America platform to those who wanted to fight for fair and honest elections.  But hey, a fair and honest election in Minn. isn't a gift for Franken, it's a gift to the people of Minnesota and for our Democratic Republic as a whole.

Go Fairness.  Go honest counting.  Go open elections.  Go DEMOCRACY!!!

by Charlie L (2 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 747 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:11:14 PM

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Thanks to Steve Freeman for posting this.

It appears that those "disputed" ballots may be part of a Coleman scheme to muddy the waters.  According to an election official quoted by Associated Press yesterday, the intent of the voter was clear on every disputed ballot he saw, and he doubted that any of them would be thrown out.  That would suggest that Franken may pick up more than 20 additional votes from the disputed ballots examined so far which would put him at about 30% of his ultimate goal of picking up 116 votes (TPM Election Central has more up-to-date numbers. and they indicate that Coleman has disputed 23 more ballots than Franken has).  That is with only 18% of the ballots recounted.

Could the Coleman plan be to dispute as many ballots as humanly possible and then claim fraud when the Board counts them?  Some of the disputed ballots are posted at the Minnesota public broadcasting web site.  As an example of what Coleman is disputing, one of the ballots has the box next to Franken filled in.  Coleman's name is crossed out with the word "no" written next to it.  The Coleman people disputed the ballot because they claimed the intent of the voter was not clear.

Jerry Policoff

by Jerry Policoff (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 15 comments [13 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:16:50 PM

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Ha ha ha ha ha

Funny, Al Franken was challenged on his stance on election fraud and voter disenfranchisment. 

Al Franken did not want to talk about it.

Karma at work folks. Karma.

by Michael Cavlan (15 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 538 comments [131 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:53:31 PM

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This article brings up a relavent question. How many people in this country are patriots or traitors to our system of government? How many people support our democratic process, and how many just want to win by any means?

Here's a simple test to see if you are a traitor, or a true American Patriot:

Be honest, which would you choose?

   A. To have clean election, but your guy looses.

            or,

   B. To have dirty election, but your guy wins.

If you chose "A" you are a true American patriot. Thank you!

If you chose "B", you are a traitor to the American spirit, principles and values. Please leave the county immediately. You have no right to be an Ameican citizen.

by roy lutz (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 79 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:21:24 AM

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We couldn't do better. Rah Rah for Conlgressmn Franken. emhorswill@comcast.net

by emily horswill (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 79 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:57:33 AM

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