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2009-02-14 Home Front: Politix

Judges put limits on absentee ballots in MN senate trial

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Will they go thru and toss the ballots Franken got under those circumstances?

This thing is RIGGED.

And the people fo Minnesota are complete fricken IDIOTS. Minnesoata, the Stupid State.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-14 10:52|| 2009-02-14 10:52|| Front Page Top

#2 "They wrote that each side must prove that the ballots they want counted were "legally cast" and that cannot be done simply showing a ballot was wrongfully rejected."

WTF? Shouldn't Coleman's lawyers be petitioning a Federal judge based on this statement to declare the election null & void? The counted 'found' ballots before the recount even began have far more questions surrounding them than any potential absentee ballots.

Regardless, this article must have originated at the HuffPost (this is CNN, after all), because the Coleman team sees this ruling in much different light than this article projects, as noted here
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"...Coleman's attorneys saw it differently, saying that the ruling leaves untouched about 3,500 of the 4,800 rejected absentee ballots they want the court to open and count, enough to make it possible for Coleman to overcome Franken's 225-vote certified recount lead.

Coleman lawyer Fritz Knaak said that those remaining votes -- along with the ballots of registered voters who were thought to be nonregistered as well as the ballots of voters whose signatures looked mismatched but weren't -- will eventually result in Coleman's return to the Senate."

Posted by logi_cal 2009-02-14 11:08|| 2009-02-14 11:08|| Front Page Top

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