In addition the double counted votes where originals and both marked and unmarked duplicate ballots need to be refigured. Franken deserved I think to have 133 missing ballots in that specific case. I expect Coleman to have the same fairness courtesy treated towards him when 25 left leaning precincts show excess ballot counts compared with the actual voting tape records and registered voter roll election day sign ins.

Yes, of course there is hypocrisy, but what do you expect after all each side is fighting for to win and making their cases, but each side does not make the rules! Very important distinction. So the pressure is on the precincts counties canvassing board and Supreme Court to set the rules. We’ve had weak and inconsistent leadership by the election overseers. Granted it’s been tough, but these men and women know U.S. Senate races are not beanbag.
This whole fiasco is similar to Animal Farm where the fascist pigs are the Franken camp all the other animals are the Coleman camp and a drunken Mr. Jones sleeping it off in his stone windmill is the election officials Canvassing board and Supreme court.

All animals are equal…
but some animals are more equal then others…

OINK!!! OINK!!

Your job is to start earning enough money to move out of moms basement and start raising that brood of Downs syndrome kids you and your sister made.

So put down that bag o’ Cheetos, turn off the kiddie pron, get your bloated ass out there boy, and get to it.

Cheeto Boy & Sons is countin’ on you!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The kind that doesn’t hire repeat drunk drivers, like you!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

I’ve never been in the “drunk tank”, but even if I had been, you couldn’t afford to loan me enough to buy a shoelace, much less bail.

Pffft.

You’re really not very bright, are you Cheeto boy?

You better spend less time worrying about my driving record and dreaming about male genitalia, and more time hustling your next rent payment.

If you don’t get out there and hit the streets, boy, you’re never gonna be able to pull the trigger on that 81′ Chev. What kind of CEO are you?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHaaaaaaaaaa!

HAHAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHAhahahahaHAHAHAHAhahahaha

No snow last night again, eh Cheeto boy? Been up all night wanking yourself instead of plowing out parking lots, boy?

That’s tough. Don’t forget; if you start to run low on Cheetos and find yourself strapped for cash, I’ve got several pairs of very expensive boots that need the attention of an expert.

I pay the prevailing minimum wage, of course…plus tips if you put a real good shine on ‘em.

Bullshit.

Al Franken ran an ad, accusing Norm of bein’ the “Fourth Most Corrupt Senator.”

Team Smokescreen filed a legal complaint, claiming the ad was false. What did the Good Judge rule, on Team Smokescreen’s legal filing? Let’s read it again, for those historically impaired (i.e., “republiCons”):

Moreover, based on the reference in CREW’s Executive Summary to the “list of
24,” there is an objective basis for the inference drawn in the Franken advertisements that Senator Coleman was the fourth Senator on the overall list of 24. As noted above, the statute does not prohibit the making of unfavorable deductions or inferences based on fact. Because the statement made in the Franken advertisements accurately captures the “gist” or “sting” of Senator Coleman’s placement in the CREW listing of the 20 “most corrupt” members of Congress and “four to watch,” there is not probable cause to believe that a violation of the statute has occurred. The statement is substantially accurate, if not literally true in every detail. (emphasis added)

Let me repeat that, just for you: The statement is substantially accurate, if not literally true in every detail.

Damn, you sure seem to be a stupid (cheney)in’ idiot, ProudChump.

Obviously.

Which, of course, is why you’re a republiCon.

That’s the problem with you republiCons; you just make shit up.

Let’s compare Spitzer and Vitter, shall we?

Spitzer gets caught doin’ high-priced hookers, and falls on his sword (pun intended). Vitter, a republiCon who took the seat from another sex-scandal disgraced republiCon in Louisiana, gets caught doin’ hookers (allegedly, she dressed him up in diapers before doin’ Vitter). Does he fall on his sword?

Of course not – he’s a republiCon.

From The Christian Science Monitor:

Sen. David Vitter (R) of Louisiana was applauded by his Republican colleagues when he returned to a caucus meeting after admitting he made phone calls to a prostitute service.

Damn, you’re a stupid (cheney)in’ bootlicker, StupidrepubliCon.

No shit, Sherlock. Haven’t you ever heard of “Absentee Ballots”?

Damn, you republiCons are stupid.

Leroy, just wanted point out a typo…the sentence should read “Few will remember many of his successes.”

Apparently quite a few precincts had more hand count votes then registered Election Day signed in voters. And apparently these precincts were in Democrat leading areas. Maybe vote padding is done habitually and no one usually notices because the results are usually too decisive to matter. Perhaps this is a dirty little liberal secret (“vote early and vote often.”)

Let’s have all votes match the registered people who signed in and voted. If the count is under as in the case in Mpls then I would say yes that was the right call for that specific situation. But these votes exceeding signed in registered voters is ridiculous and smells fishy…even criminal.

Tommy, so what if Norm Coleman said that shortly after the tabulations were set. I mean information is only as viable as it is current and up to date. At that point in time everyone was sure that a hand count wouldn’t make a significant difference. Even Mr. Ritchie who sounded none two excited about the hand count and even offered ever so the idea that one could save everyone a lot of trouble if they stepped aside.

After the hand counting was when the fiasco really started as we realized all the inaccuracies and now the magnitude of the excess vote count problem of over running the voter rolls.

Padding the votes just like militant Democrats…they haven’t changed. You lose a New York high profile Governor and now this one from Illinois (Feds busted them both). We have one lousy Senator from Idaho who tap dances seated on the toilet and a perverted congressman of Florida thrown out or career ended and you guys think the GOP’s finished!

No. I don’t think.

Norm Coleman’s hands are clean and he was thought of well enough for a liberal St. Paul (who remember voted 70% in favor of Kerry in 2004) who gave him 60% of the vote two years after disclosing to all that he had changed parties.

He was a great Mayor for St Paul and guess what when the people of St Paul had a choice of outing him they couldn’t seem to bring themselves to do it because they were voting not by party (like this Senate election) but by self interest.

U.S. Senators don’t directly affect us and our lives as the Capitol city hometown mayor. And that my two friends says pretty much all that needs be said. The man is a great statesman.

Maybe the ClubFed in Rochester will be re-named, in ol’ Smokescreen’s (dis)honor…..

The democrats have called on Norm to accept his fate, but none that I have heard thus far have said that he will be given an election certificate. Especially if T-Paw needs to sign it to make it valid.

I imagine Norm will continue to add to the state’s massive deficit with his futile attempts to stall the inevitable. Few will remember any of his successes, as his legacy will rapidly become that of a former rising star who cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars when we could least afford it, while weakening our national power by denying the state the correct compliment of members of Congress. Only his likely indictment and conviction on ethics charges will be able to draw attention from the poor way in which he chose to leave the public stage.