MN vote complete with Franken up 225 votes

[rbell]

In FL they kept REcounting with lower standards each time. I really have no problem with hanging chads, although there was no excuse for there being any. It was when pregnant and dimpled chads started being counted that the whole thing turned into a farce.

Similarly, I have no problem if people in MN went a little outside the lines as long as their intent was clear. But when two areas are both marked and one is crossed out, or when it is marked ambiguously in any other way, there is no way to know what the voter meant. It's just a guess, and elections are too important to be decided by guessing. Such voters could have easily requested a new ballot, but they didn't, so their improperly marked ballots shouldn't count. Those ballots should have been discarded, instead of being interpreted as votes for Franken, as the Dems running the recount apparently did in just about every uncertain case.

Also, at this point in MN it's not about additional recounts because of a close result, it's about trying to overcome the clear fraud that resulted in the extra votes that changed the winner of the election. Surely you would agree that those two circumstances are different.

Absolutely outstanding post, and no...LeBuick refuses to see the difference.:BangHead:

 

[hillclimber1]

A clear case of an election being stolen.....

 

[EdSutton]

I'm still waiting for a reasonable answer to how Al Franken (DFL) somehow managed to get from trailing Norm Coleman (R) by a little over 700 votes at the end of the 'counting' on 'Election Day', to an 'win' of 225 votes, now, in a state dominated by the DFL Party? (Like I really don't have very strong suspicions!)

Franken-ly, that is what simply doesn't pass the 'smell test', in my book.

This odor is exceeding that exuded by both individuals, both of whom themselves, IMO, could stand an extra shower or two, with each using a couple of bars of Dial® soap, followed by a good application of deodorant body powder, and a very liberal use (no pun intended) of Right Guard® or Mennen Speed Stick®! :thumbsup:

And I repeat, as I have already said before, IMO, neither of these individuals is in any danger whatsoever, of being mistaken for either the late MN Senator Edward J. Thye, or MN Senator and Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. either. And I will now add, the legacies of the late MN Senators Frank B. Kellogg, Henrik Shipstead and "Gene" McCarthy, are also in absolutely no danger, from either Norm Coleman or Al Franken either.

I still simply wanna' know the "how" about the nearly 1000 vote shift!!

Ed