« KEY ELECTION OFFICIAL IN MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE OFFICE PREVIOUSLY WORKED FOR GROUP ATTEMPTING TO INFLUENCE RECOUNT EFFORT | Home | COLEMAN FOR U.S. SENATE PRESS RELEASE: “AS HUGE CHUNKS OF VOTES APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR, COLEMAN CAMPAIGN FILES DATA PRACTICES REQUEST WITH COUNTY AUDITORS AND SECRETARY OF STATE” »
MUST READ FROM PIM: “THE RECOUNT: BREAKING NEWS ON MOUNTAIN IRON PRECINCT ONE”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | November 7, 2008
“At 7:22 p.m. last night, the Secretary of State’s Web site was updated (after working hours) to reflect an additional 100 voters.
The precinct reporting was Mountain Iron Precinct One.
Every one of those 100 votes was cast for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama…and DFL Senate candidate Al Franken.” Source: Politics In Minnesota, November 7, 2008
Click here for the complete post.
Topics: Uncategorized | 19 Comments »
19 Responses to “MUST READ FROM PIM: “THE RECOUNT: BREAKING NEWS ON MOUNTAIN IRON PRECINCT ONE””
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
So who at Mountain Iron Precinct One initially subtracted 100 Franken votes? Get on it, Brodkorb.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
From the Sarah Janecek piece:
Is Janecek really that naïve about this process or is this part of your seemingly coordinated efforts to get Minnesotans to not trust the system?
November 7th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
This works too Walter for the other races:
http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/
November 7th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Aaron,
It’s reported that St. Louis County can’t produce the tape denoting the election results from election night, and that the tape that they provided with the supposed new 100 votes was dated November 2, 2008.
Who knows what’s happening here, but it stinks to high heaven.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Moreover, this 100 ballots were not counted on election night. These are “new”…
Since you support an accurate and fair recount, you shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss something that looks very strange.
You should stop proving to the world what a coward you are Aaron. Go back to your echo chamber Aaron.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
It is simply not statistically possible that Franken can get nearly EVERY vote that was miscounted/typo’ed/not reported. It defies any logic, and yet our valiant MSM just keeps marching forward reporting this shrinking lead without so much as a single critical question.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Kyle:
I used the Secrtary of State’s election center on their website and when I went there a couple of minutes the link to the general election results weren’t there. They are now. Can you imagine how strange it would look if after going down when it came back up Franken was ahead (it’s still Coleman ahead by 239)
Aron can you explain why the Coleman campaign is handed a tape that is date 11-2 and not 11-4 which has the new 100 votes?
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
November 7th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
KARE11: Typo correction brings Franken closer to Coleman
November 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
From http://politicalblogs.startribune.com/bigquestionblog/ : “The official said it could be from a bad battery or having to do with the Daylight Savings switch.”
Daylight savings time?! DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME?! That is their weak excuse for a tape that is dated 2 days BEFORE the election? And apparently a machine from Mount Iron precinct 2 had election night tallies dated October 31. So if the machines are 4 days behind, a tape dated November 2nd would actually be from November 6th. Plenty of time to mark up another hundred ballots and send them through, generating a new tape. Regardless of the excuses, something odiferous is emanating from the Range.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
The 100 votes must have been test votes done prior to the election to test the machine. What else would explain the date on the tape.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I can’t imagine that a clueless election judge managed to mis-enter the date on the tape of a machine whose votes they also managed to mis-report.
I love how when recounts occur, human error is no longer an acceptable excuse for a very simple mistake.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Is Janecek really that naïve
What’s naive is anyone thinking there isn’t an election being stolen here.
If roles were reverses you can bet that Leroy and Tommy Brown shirt would be all over this. Instead they’re defending what looks to be a clear, in the open, election theft attempt.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
How is counting the cast ballots election theft?
I could see if they were conjuring up ballots or adding anomalous numbers, but they are not. In four of the five precincts in Two Harbors, Franken got 57 percent of the vote in numbers that closely mirrored Obama’s. In the first, he got 9 percent. Would it be best to not ask questions, or to see if maybe a number was not entered properly?
This is the sort of “Major Election Fraud” that you are all harping about. About a typo. If Norm wanted to avoid this, he should have set his sights higher than majority+1.
November 7th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Average Schmuck, you’re such a (cheney)in’ bootlicker.
Do you think the 3 GOPers that lost by numbers that qualify for mandatory re-count should heed ol’ Smokescreen’s advice, and concede?
Of course not – you’re a hypocritical bootlicker that demonstrates why GOP now stands for GreedOverPrinciples.
November 7th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
“KARE11: Typo correction brings Franken closer to Coleman”
Intellectually dishonest and half-retarded ape, Aaron Laundry confuses Pine County with St. Louis County.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Average Schmuck, you’re such a (cheney)in’ bootlicker.
Tommy Brown Shirt, making a mistake on one guy from 24 to 124 – I might be able to buy that. But on TWO candidates, both democrats? Anyone goosestepper who defends that must have a closet full of dark tan shirts.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
you’re a hypocritical bootlicker that demonstrates why GOP now stands for GreedOverPrinciples.
This is what a Brown Shirt calls someone who simply wants an HONEST election, not one being stolen right from under our noses.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Tommy Johnson – This is typical Iron Range politics as usual. Be it Mt. Iron, Nashwauk, Buhl, Chisholm, Hibbing or Keewatin, the vote is always “fiddled with”. You really think the Iron range is that DFL? Remember your leader, Mayor Daley [Obama] of Chicago thug country stated that its not important who votes, it is important who COUNTS the vote that determines the winner
November 7th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Tommy, you`re a (biden)in’ bootlicker.