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BREAKING NEWS: “KSTP REQUESTS REJECTED SENATE BALLOTS”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | June 23, 2009
I wonder where KSTP came up with this idea? Oh, yes…MDE. Team Franken’s embedded blogger at MN Publius, Aaron Landry, will likely have another temper tantrum today.
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“With the Minnesota Supreme Court about to rule on the U.S. Senate race, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS is asking to examine more than 10,000 rejected absentee ballots.
Along with Hubbard Television stations in Duluth and Austin, the stations requested from election officials around the state access to the disputed ballots and the envelopes they were sent in on Monday.
In the letter, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS assured election officials that, ‘We fully respect the sanctity of the private ballot, and the importance of voter confidentiality in the electoral process.’” Source: KSTP, June 22, 2009
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June 23rd, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Who cares?
Someone needs to explain to me why this exercise has any meaning. We know that there are ballots that indisputably were properly rejected. Whether Franken or Coleman has more votes within the pile of 10,000 is wholly irrelevant to who actually ended up with the most legal ballots as there is no way to match an illegal ballot to an actual opened ballot that KSTP or MDE would obtain.
More importantly, once the Supreme Court rules, it’s definitively irrelevant as the MN Supreme Court has final, non-reviewable authority in construing Minnesota law.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Yeah, but Michael, at least KSTP wants to see ALL of the ballots. That’s a HUGE difference compared to your one-sided treasure hunt.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:05 AM
If the law provides that the documents must be disclosed, then they should be disclosed. There were extensive examination of the ballots in Florida after the issues were resolved, and somehow the republic survived. But as far as I am concerned, whatever that examination reveals, it will have no impact on the legitimacy of the election.
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Hiram, I agree that whatever the examination reveals should have no impact on the legitimacy, but you can bet the farm that the losing team will try their hardest to make it an issue. And you can be sure they’ll make it an issue during the next election.
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 PM
AC and Hiram are right, the fact that there more votes that voters in several precincts will forever put a dark cloud over the election. We only have the ACORN-endorsed Mark Ritchie to blame for that.
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:06 PM
I don’t know if Ritchie can reasonably be blamed for precincts where there are more votes, then voters signed in, I suppose. I don’t think he did any of the counting at the precinct level.
“I agree that whatever the examination reveals should have no impact on the legitimacy, but you can bet the farm that the losing team will try their hardest to make it an issue. And you can be sure they’ll make it an issue during the next election.”
I have always been willing to live with the decision of the courts, whatever they might be. I would think it a mistake to attack the legitimacy of the winner in the senate election, just I as I think it would would have been a mistake to attack the legitimacy of the winner of the 2000 presidential election.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Hiram, what has Ritchie done to reconcile those numbers? … Answer: Nothing He’s too busy using state owned data bases to campaign for 2010.
Al Franken repeatedly attacked the legitimacy of the 2000 Presidential election. Both Franken and Michael Moore were regular guests as panelists on “Politically Correct with BIll Maher”. Both repeatedly claimed that Bush “stole the election.”
Here is a clip from late 2000. Notice that Angry Al, after getting in his jokes about Cheney’s heart attack, says “if they steal the election, he’ll only be Vice President.” (05:25)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M61T0IrQAwQ
Hiram, for GWB’s entire first term, the Democratic Mantra was that he “stole the election.”
June 24th, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Shouldn’t this headline ALSO be “Here we go again”?