He is incapable of doing his job. What a disgrace.

Huh. Funny that this issue just happened to have popped up in this election. Curious… but not really…

This election count gets fishier by the minute.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Impeach+Obama!+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Yeah, it’s hard to get a good connection when you have a lying, lowlife moonbat hanging off the antenna.

The more you idiots yammer, the worse this looks.

I’m not making justifications….just explaining as someone who is a certified, trained election judge with years of experience at it. Every election things are just a little different in process. That’s why they have trainings before every election.

WiDem, you left the dumbest comment of all. First, we’re not talking about “clerical” errors. The scanner in question would have electronically submitted it’s tallies. Machines don’t make clerical errors.

Second, your closing statement (quoted above) underscores the peril of this recount which will take place entirely by hand.

It’s a slim margin, and I think concern is warranted. Why do you have such difficulty with an open, honest and transparent process?

This doesn’t really explain why or how an electronic scanner that transmits its data to a central St. Louis County collection point transmitted the wrong data.

I can understand the manual tape having errors. But the scanner couldn’t have sent in the wrong data.

Try again.

If it was a hand count that had to be recorded maybe we can eventually buy that mistake of 100 after all that was the explanation that Pine county has tried to make. But the one from Saint Louis County rings very wrong:

* They have electronic scanners which are suppose to send in a report. Even if the hand wrote down the same wrong number twice (both Franken and Obama got 100 votes – did the rest of the candidates like Oberstar, the state house candidate get 100 votes also another question for the auditor of Saint Louis county to check out)

* Somebody explained to the Star Tribune when a test scan was made the date was wrong. Based on the explanation Powerline reported the dates aren’t adding up.

* Okay lets see election days was November 4th. You do a review on the 5th. Okay you do a double check during normal business hours on the 6th. This list isn’t updated until after 7 p.m. on the 6th? This is just like Dulth (I assume the home office of the Saint Louis county auditor) which I assume that uses opitcal scanning machines can’t get their votes to be listed until after 2 a.m and needs three hours to get about 30 precints listed on the Secretary of State’s website (I know because I was up the whole night checking and seeing just how slow Duluth was reporting) on the fifth. It was like they were trying to get their precints reported last on purpose! Why report last unless you were trying to create the votes that Franken needed to win. Otherwise their results should’ve been in hours earlier. Dulth and the Saint Louis auditor unlike the comment made by Jeff have not been acting honest and should be forced to answer tough questions.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

“If they were “normal” fluctuations, why would the all be one sided[?]”

“WMD – 100 new votes counted for Al- not one for Norm? come on! You really need to stop smoking the dope!”

“Shameful attack? This is a huge statistical improbability that any sane person would have to question, DNC stronghold or not.”

Vote total fluctuations caused by clerical errors are random by definition. Show some evidence (or anything really) of some sort of intentional fraud and then you can consider fraud..but not without even a scintilla of proof.

Clerical errors are to be expected given that 3 million votes were cast and counted in basically one day. It has nothing to do with statistics until you actually accurately record the information to begin with…those were the unofficial results. You can’t assume there’s a fire just because you see smoke.

So the solution is to give 100 votes for Coleman to make it even? The damn clerical errors must be partisan…Its not just the liberal media anymore. Now its numbers too.

“Further, isn’t Coleman’s concerns PRECISELY why we should have a hand recount?”

–Have you ever tried to count 3 million of anything?…by hand!!!?

Election judges are approved by each party. Each party signs off on them before they are trained. Every tape, sheet, etc. is signed off by both party’s election judges that night. After 18 hour days mistakes do happen. That is why there is a period afterwards for election auditors to certify the results – it requires taking the tapes, verifying them against the tally sheets and reports and submitting final copies to the SOS office. The smaller number changes are the city/county election supervisors going through the spoiled ballots and figuring out which are valid and counting them. For instance in my precinct one ballot was sent to our precinct by mistake. It was “spoiled” (i.e., not counted) and returned to the city election supervisor. The city election supervisor (a Republican) will find out which precinct the ballot should have been sent to, check it against the rolls, register it if it is valid or spoil it if it isn’t, and count it if necessary.

I am shocked that people are so uninformed of the process of voting and counting votes here. People uninformed and interested – sign up next time to be an election judge. It’s several hours of training, approval by your party and lots of work the day of the election but well worth it.

“More evidence 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 newly-added 100 votes, and is dated November 2–the Sunday before the election. St. Louis County reportedly denies being able to produce the genuine tape from election night, even though Minnesota law requires that tape to be signed by the election judges and publicly displayed.”

That’s the heart of the problem. It’s reported that “oops St. Louis County can’t find their election night tapes…. oopsie!”

How so? Bush won the election and prevented Al Gore from stealing it. Every re-count demonstrated that as fact.

In other news two wrongs don’t make a right, no matter what the voices in your head tell you happened in 2000.

Bush won legally. This election had better be decided legally as well.

Intellectually dishonest and lazy, half-retarded ape named Aaron Laundry confuses Pine County with St. Louis County.

Go back to your echo/masturbation chamber Aaron.

How so. Please explain how a data practices request constitutes a “shameful attack.” This ought to be good.

If anyone has an issue with the way we vote, next time – sign up to be trained to be an election judge. Judges are approved by each party and each precinct has identified judges of both parties. Each process at the closing of the polls is done by a judge of each party together and all papers are signed and double checked by each. Human error does happen. It also needs to be corrected.

*crickets*

Pffft. There’s today’s Democrap party in action: Stinking hypocrits…big mouthed liars….dishonorable, anti-American lowife.

Further, isn’t Coleman’s concerns PRECISELY why we should have a hand recount?

We’re all about clean, transparent elections and traceability, right?

What election was stolen in Bush V Gore. Bush had more votes than Gore. What happened was that Al Gore just couldn’t create enough votes to steal the election. Furthermore if it wasn’t for the interference of the Florida State Supreme Court Miami Dade county would’ve finished the recount they had started, but stopped because they thought they couldn’t complete an accurate recount by the Florida State Supreme Court’s deadline.

Okay a typo of 100 votes in Pine county is believable. But 100 new votes which all happened to be for both Obama and Al Franken (Franken was off about 15% of Obama’s vote) and a tape is shown to the Coleman campaign that is dated November 2, 2008.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

Steal election? Every recount done showed Bush would have won by an even larger total.

You are an idiot!

Did he appear at any campaign events with Coleman? That would completely discredit his objectivity. You can’t ojbectively oversee a recount when you campaigned for and with one of the participating candidates.

Or are you just blowing bubbles in yur kool-aid?

Moron.

BWAHAHAHAA!

How does it feel to be Bush v. Gore’d?

I love it.

2008 Minnesota Senate Race: Now it is our turn to steal an election

Pffft.

As that well known election expert, Cuba Gooding, once said “Show me the tapes!”

C’mon moonbats. All of you clean election, count the vote hypocrits, shout it out…..“Show us the tapes!”

A typo in Pine County got fixed Thursday, giving Al Franken 100 more votes and tightening Minnesota’s unresolved Senate race even tighter.”"

Coleman shoved his foot down his throat, and instead of pulling it out gracefully, has shoved it further.

I know the Right is afraid, very afraid, of the rule of law, but at least LET THE SYSTEM WORK should be the unified banter, not petty posturing.

Coleman is getting bad advice, but that’s fine, everyone is watching.

From my Best Friend and proud Republican:

“”Coleman’s statement that if the shoe was on the other foot he would concede is laughable and a stupid statement. Recount is automatic at that level anyway and no one can blame Franken for wanting the recount.

I don’t blame Coleman for declaring victory either as he has more votes. (now)…..

All valid ballots need to be counted…”"
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I think the victory declaration was premature and disrespectful to the system, but I do agree with my Republican Counterpart, ALL valid ballots should be counted, and once the recount provision kicks in, they should count them one more time.

Again, I will go on record stating that regardless of who is declared the winner at the canvassing board, a recount should take place, and whoever is certified at that point, will be my Senator!

Is requesting data, especially data that they should have right on hand, an attack?

No. Please, come down off of ‘hyperbole hill’.

Shameful attack? This is a huge statistical improbability that any sane person would have to question, DNC stronghold or not.

In my experience, anytime someone uses the phrase “everyone knows”, everything that follows is complete bullshit.

Here’s the problem. Vote totals are changing. They are trying to as quickly get what the offical county results are recorded because just a couple of more precints creating a fictional 100 votes at a time will steal this election.

Furthermore part of the job of the county auditor is to say each precint has properly reported their results. This precint has raised some questions which the Saint Louis county at a minimum to have a fair and honest election needs to answer like was the election held on November 2, 2008 which is what was on the tape that the Coleman campaign got.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN