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STAR TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: COURTS NOT CANVASSING BOARD SHOULD DECIDE ON REJECTED ABSENTEE BALLOTS
By Michael B. Brodkorb | November 24, 2008
“In this country, courts can rule that laws are unconstitutional and can be disregarded. Courts can find that laws were not obeyed, and order a remedy.
But a canvassing board — even one whose members include four judges, as Minnesota’s does — is not a court. Its role is administrative. Its task is to oversee a by-hand recount of ballots ‘validly cast.’ That phrase is set in statute, and is followed by another, just as pertinent: ‘Only the ballots cast in the election … may be considered in the recount process.’
The 2008 Recount Guide prepared by the office of Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was even more specific: ‘This is an administrative recount. … It is not to determine if absentee ballots were properly accepted.’” Source: Star Tribune, November 24, 2008
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November 24th, 2008 at 11:33 PM
I guess Coleman’s expecting to lose the canvassing board’s decision, given that you’re pre-emptively calling for this to go to the courts.
All in good time, Mikey. All in good time.
November 25th, 2008 at 10:37 AM
It’s fun to watch Ole Smokescreen squirm. Seriously.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Sounds like old-fashioned liberal judicial activism to me.