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KARE 11: “COLEMAN CAMPAIGN ALLEGES POSSIBLE RECOUNT BIAS”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | November 15, 2008
“The campaign of incumbent Senator Norm Coleman called reporters and cameras to their Saint Paul Headquarters Saturday to stop just short of accusing Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie of possible collusion with the campaign of Coleman opponent Al Franken.
Coleman Chief Recount Attorney Fritz Knaak admitted, ‘The supercharged environment that we’re in leads us to suspect everything.’
At issue, as Minnesota prepares for a massive statewide recount in the U.S. Senate race between Coleman, Franken and Independence Party Candidate Dean Barkley, is whether or not the names of voters with rejected absentee ballots should be public. The Franken camp has argued that the information is public. The Coleman campaign disagrees.
Knaak contends that statements by Chief Election Official Gary Poser cast doubt on the impartiality of the Secretary of State’s office which is overseeing the recount. Poser told several counties that the voter information is public. Knaak focused on Poser’s statements. ‘This to us, was a stunning revelation and suggests at the very least that the very neutrality of the Secretary of State’s most senior election officials has been breached.’ Attorneys in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties have said such information should be private.” Source: KARE 11, November 15, 2008
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November 16th, 2008 at 12:12 am
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November 16th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Tim Pawlenty has now stepped in off the ledge, and is publicly supporting the recount efforts and the ethics of Mark Ritchie and the rest of the recount team.
Is Norm planning to throw him under the bus as a final desperate effort to save his seat? Given how pathetically underhandedly Norm has handled this recount, I bet this election goes to Al in a landslide if a revote were held today.
November 16th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Flip the coin————there will never be a legitimate winner in this mess. Watch Al lose in the courts in Minnesota and ask the Dem-controlled Senate to seat him. There is precedent for the senate majority party to accept losing candidates and overrule the certified candidate. Norm will win in Minnesota and lose the seat on Capitol Hill.
November 16th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I know that if an absentee ballot I cast was rejected, I would know about it. And I would want someone out there to defend my interest in having my vote counted. In general, the fact of voting is a matter of public record.
I think it should be the position of everyone here that all lawful ballots should be counted, and that all reasonable steps should be taken to make that happen.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I think that the instant that Ole Smokescreen trails by a single vote, he should “step aside” for the good of the people. However, that would be an act of courage that he is incapable of.
Nevermind!