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December 1st at 6:05PM

Unresolved Minnesota Senate Race Proves Every Six Dozen Votes Count

POSTED BY: Dennis DiClaudio

If you're an Al Franken supporter in Minnesota and, on Election Day, you considered getting off your ass to vote 73 times but ultimately decided to stay home and do whatever it is Minnesota people do when they're not voting for novelty politicians, man oh man, are you gonna feel stupid after reading this...

The Minnesota Senate recount is getting incredibly tight. According to officials from the Al Franken campaign, the margin separating the Democratic challenger and Sen. Norm Coleman is now down to 73 votes out of approximately 2.9 million cast.

Several weeks into the recount, 88.6% of the ballots have been counted, a slight majority of which came from Coleman supporters. As noted by Franken campaign lawyer Marc Elias, in the counties whose ballots have been counted, Al Franken won 49.6% of the vote on Election Day. In the counties who have not finished counting, Al Franken won 52.8% of the vote on Election Day... Even with the narrowing margin, there may not be enough room for Franken to take a lead.

But, don't worry, Minnesotadelphians. Al Franken and his team aren't about to let this political circus come to an end just yet...

On a conference call with reporters, Elias said the campaign would now "pursue all other avenues open to us," in regards to making these absentee ballots public, "including legal action." He even noted (as has been recently reported) that the United States Senate could take up the issue, a development that the Coleman campaign has called "troubling."

Hopefully, this whole debacle will be resolved before Franken and Coleman head into their rematch election in 2014.

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I dont understand how any sane person would vote for Al Franken but this is the same state that gave us Jesse " The Body Ventura. Come on now, you people are smarter than that ! Look, I live in southern California, where maggots like this fool are crawling out of the woodwork. Just look what "Auhnold" has done here. You folks are too smart to elect this piece of s##t. Do the right thing.

by Jim December 2nd at 2:07AM
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November 26th at 12:43PM

Minnesota Board Votes Against Al Franken, In Favor of More of That Delicious Stuffing Please

POSTED BY: Dennis DiClaudio

I think I know what embattled Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman will be listing as a blessing around the Thanksgiving table tomorrow afternoon...

Minnesota's Canvassing Board voted unanimously to reject Franken's request to include thousands of absentee ballots that are not included in the recount in the Minnesota senate race between the Democratic challenger and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman.

Aha! So the Republicans were right. Franken's claim that the 12,000 absentee rejected ballots needed to be counted was without merit...

The Canvassing Board, which oversees the recount, stressed during a hearing today, that they weren't rejecting the merits made by Franken's attorneys.

So, wait a minute. Franken's argument does have merit? But they're throwing them out anyway? What's going on here?

The panel also indicated that the fight over the exclusion of the absentee ballots from the recount will most likely land in court.

Oh, I see. The Canvassing Board wanted to start their holiday weekend early. I can understand that. 'Cause, you know, nothing slows down the digestion of fistfuls of food in your stomach more so than a lingering democratic quandary.

Best to just kick that on to someone else. They can handle it after everyone takes a nap.