http://www.minnpost.com/davidbrauer/2008/11/12/4565/minneapolis_election_director_speaks_ballots_in_my_car_story_false

Coleman is being peeled like a banana.

“Maybe he should think that through before he continues his assault on Minnesota Law!”

How is going to a judge with a request an “assault on Minnesota Law!”. Or is this just more of your hyperbolic rhetoric?

I’ve got no problem “casting aspersions” on ballots that ride around in the trunk of a car well after they should have been counted.

“Join me in allowing law … blah blah blah”
I’ll wait to see HOW the law is carried out if you don’t mind.

It is hyperbolic rhetoric to counteract the Coleman Camps false claims of victory. Sorry if I get carried away sometimes. Mike’s tactics tend to rub off on me when I am here. I figured you would allow some rhetorical license as you seem to give Mike a blank check on them.

Listen, we have a process, and to cast aspersion on the canvassing and then challenge the recount before it even starts is shameless.

If the 32 ballots are still sealed in their security envelope and within their identification envelope, notarized by the witness of the voter, they should be counted. If there is any doubt, they should be set aside for the canvassing board to determine validity.

Here’s the rub, if the Coleman Camp continues to make a stink, and wins the battle of aspersion and integrity, this race could be thrown in the US Senate to decide, and Coleman loses for sure. Maybe he should think that through before he continues his assault on Minnesota Law!

Join me in allowing law to be carried out, and join me in acknowledging, today, that whomever is declared the winner after the law is carried out is my/your Senator.

Flash

Then please explain this ludicrous claim of yours

“They know they lost and now just want to corrupt the process.”

How does anybody know they lost at this point? Or do you know something you’re not telling (unlikely)

“You’re full of shit. Coleman still leads in this “recount”.

Sen. Shameless still leads at this point in the canvassing process. No recount has begun. That will not happen until the Results are finalized and certified by the canvassing board. At that point, statute kicks in and the ballots will be recounted, by hand, to determine voter intent.

It is actually unusual the fluctuation has been so minor. In the past sometimes thousands of votes have switched and shuffled during the course of canvassing. Just as an example, lets look at the SoS Race between Kiffmeyer and Ritchie.

AP Number reported on election day compared to Final Canvas number

Ritchie GAINED 603 votes, Kiff LOST 231 votes for a +834 Net for Ritchie

Or US Senate that year.
Klobuchar – 666, Kennedy -3,520

These are standard fluctuations and is why we have a canvassing process, and a statutory recount provision right down to the standard outlining voter intent.

Flash

If the shoe fits..

When did this process include driving around with ballots several days after the election?

“They know they lost”

You’re full of shit. Coleman still leads in this “recount”.

Again, Shameless Coleman and his operatives are trying to cast doubt on the integrity of a solid, clean, and well laid out process. If they had any honor at all left, they would join Team Franken in demanding all ballots be counted in a fair, legal and timely fashion. But we know that won’t happen. They know they lost and now just want to corrupt the process.

Flash

How hard would it be to ask the 32 people, under oath, when they voted. If there is any indication of fraud, toss them all. But if this is a case of misplaced ballots, why shouldn’t they be counted?

I do agree the woman in question must be fired.

The fact is that the sanctity of the vote cannot be guaranteed in a very close election. The issues will never be adequately resolved. That’s why the coin toss in the only fair way to resolve this. The recount will not be legitimate no matter how it turns out.

I urge all of you to not get too worked up over this process. It stinks and there is nothing that can be done now to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Vin Weber had it right when he said that once the courts and the fighting start, we will have an unresolvable mess.

I worked on the Florida recount. I know how it is on the ground. Flip a coin.

“”The 32 Minneapolis ballots were part of the normal delivery of absentee ballots late in the polling day, according to Election Director Cindy Reichert.

She said they were retained when they couldn’t be delivered because some polling places had shut down for the day. She said the ballots were kept sealed until other election duties were completed and were being counted Saturday afternoon, with results to be delivered to the state on Monday.”"

Uncounted absentee ballots cannot be “discovered” several days later by an election official in his/her car. This sounds like a very unimaginative attempt to add to the Frankin fraud count. Prosecution of the election official should begin Monday.

Why would these be in her car anyway. What, did absentee ballots get mailed to this person’s house? These are phony ballots and must not be allowed to enter the election.

a) paint ball
b) rubber
c) pistol
d) shotgun (magnum)

LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!

We need a committee to take charge of the rules and run it right—
How about Rudy Boschwitz, Vin Weber, Miles Lord, Walter Mondale and Arne Carlson? At least they could get it right.

I know one election official who should never be invited back to help. Geez. If a hospital worker took someone medical records and “left them in their car”, they would be fired. Major privacy violation. If a bank employee took a bunch of lives checks and left them in their car for a week, they’d be fired. If a nurse had a bunch of flu shots in her trunk for a week, they’d be tossed. No way of knowing where they’ve been or where they came from. Integrity is gone.

I feel bad. No matter who wins, that crap that is coming will will make this election forever questionable.

Action figures, t-shirts, hats, …….no limit to the possibilities. Al and Norm autographed memorabilia. Hire the marketers now!

Proposal:
We settle this the old-fashioned way with honor…let’s have Al and Norm duel for the seat. Arm up and take 10 paces, turn and shoot. (rubber or paint balls only or maybe not.) If they both hit each other, neither goes and TPaw appoints Barkley. In the absence of guns, why not duel the modern way— a coin toss. We could have this whole thing over by Monday.