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| Minnesota: Judges order 400 absentee ballots opened |
| 2009-04-01 |
| Three Minnesota judges today decided that 400 absentee ballots should be opened or examined to determine if they are valid for counting in the long-running U.S. Senate race. "To be clear, not every absentee ballot identified in this order will ultimately be opened and counted," the judges wrote. The ballots that do make it through to counting will be opened and sorted on April 7, the judges ordered. Democrat Al Franken currently has a 225-vote lead over Republican Norm Coleman in the race. Both had asked the judges order opening and counting of hundreds of absentee ballots. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I just went to the link thinking there had to be more to this story...like why haven't those absentee ballots already been counted? It's not an unreasonable question, is it? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-04-01 15:25 |
| #3 Um no. This election was goofy because you had three candidates. The independent, as I recall, got about 12% of the vote, and Coleman and Franken-the-clown split the rest. You could have a run-off with just the two. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-04-01 09:44 |
| #2 The Special Election would still have the same cast of characters who were in place when they created the first mess in the original election. Why would you expect something different? I guess they could import some Iraqis who have recent experience in 'fair' elections to administer it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-04-01 09:16 |
| #1 Gee, keep this up and they just might declare a winner by.....December 2014. Is there some reason they can't just have a special election and be done with it once and for all? |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-04-01 08:33 |