The Minnesota canvassing board ruled not to accept rejected absentee ballots in the recount between GOP incumbent U.S. Senator Norm Coleman and the former Air America talk show host, Al Franken.
Coleman is currently leading the recount by a narrow margin. This request to the board was considered a last-ditch effort by the Franken campaign to gain more ballots. Roughly 12,000 absentee ballots were rejected in Minnesota.
In the interim, both campaigns may increase the number of "challenged" ballots to try to put more votes in their column. Legal challenges are also expected by whoever loses the race after the final results are announced.
The headline calls this a "A Crippling Blow for the Franken Campaign" but with the legal challenges that are expected it won't be over until a judge makes a ruling.
Let's see
"Spoiled" and otherwise unintelligible ballots.
Why does "rejected" make it sound like a conspiracy where none exists.
I believe that such ballots were submitted by "idiots"-ineligible to vote
in affairs of the common good by virtue of their diminished mental capacities.
"'Til a judge decides? Of course- once again demonstrating that those
less willing to commit what it takes to maintain the concept of "democracy",
while bleating the loudest citing it, are a greater threat to liberty than
any ASSUMED foreign corrosive faction.
I call them... Dupes, unable to comprehend self evident truths, even after
repeatedly explained by parable, fable, and other venues suitable for young children.
Apparently, The Declaration of Independence was a bit too deep, and public school history class teachers are a bit too shallow.
Let's hope the inevitable (APPOINTED?) "Judge" that will "reinterpret" the will of the people in Minnesota, AND California, has The wisdom of Solomon.
Posted by: CaptDMO | November 30, 2008 at 08:54 AM