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COMBATIVE MARK RITCHIE REFUSES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AFTER KSTP-TV INVESTIGATION
By Luke Hellier | October 30, 2009
KSTP INVESTIGATION: Election Mistakes Lead to Changes in Vote Counting
From KSTP.COM
A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS investigation has found that mistakes made with absentee ballots in the contentious 2008 U.S. Senate recount between Al Franken and Norm Coleman are leading to changes in the way many votes will be counted in future elections.
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS contacted dozens of cities and counties around the metro area, asking to examine the absentee ballot return envelopes from the 2008 general election race that were accepted and rejected.
In two months of work, we found seven types of inconsistencies where absentee ballots were accepted and counted, even though their envelopes did not appear to strictly follow state law or the rulings issued by judges during the recount.
In some cases, whether the ballot was counted apparently depended on where the voter lived.
Click the video box to watch the exclusive 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS investigation.
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4 Responses to “COMBATIVE MARK RITCHIE REFUSES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AFTER KSTP-TV INVESTIGATION”
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October 30th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Wow. Coleman could have saved a ton of money. Why hire lawyers to present your case when you can just wait for a local TV station to produce evidence for you.
OR…
You could rely on your lawyers to do the best they could with the evidence that was there and not waste your time waiting for a local news station to tell us something we didn’t already know and that wasn’t relevant to anything being argued in court.
October 30th, 2009 at 11:38 am
AC/InTheLoop/Bob
Coleman v. Franken* is done. What KSTP did was verify to the world that mistakes were made in the process.
Ritchie has sole responsibility for this. He has since day one.
October 30th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
AC,
Just because there wasn’t a judicial remedy in the U.S. Senate recount doesn’t mean that mistakes weren’t made and the process shouldn’t be heavily scrutinized and improved. Your party called George W. Bush illegitimate after not only the 2000 Florida recount but also after the 2004 election when claims were made that Bush stole Ohio.
The Florida recount was heavily scrutinized and important reforms were made for Florida as well as dozens of other states. Just because Mark Ritchie is happy with the result and you’re happy with the result doesn’t mean we should keep our head in the sand regarding the many mistakes that were made with respect to how ballots were treated in various parts of the state.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:53 am
Chris, I do not belong to any political party.
Yes, mistakes were made. But I think the state officials (and even the Supreme Court) said they were on such a small scale and could not be proven one way or the other that there was nothing that they could do about it.
That said, I agree that the whole process needs to be addressed. Why does Pawlenty disagree?