Whatever happened to “count every vote?” Oh yeah… I forgot… it’s only count every DEMOCRAT vote!

When it was reported that Democrats in Minnesota mysteriouly discovered hundreds of votes for senate candidate Al Franken (D) in a handful of precints some folks said it was just a coincidence.

Well, what about these “coincidences?”

Here are examples of ballots for the incumbent Norm Coleman(R) that the Franken campaign is challenging in the hand recount that is underway (full recount results here):

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The Franken campaign challenged this ballot in Ramsey County, arguing the voter drew an “X” in over the oval for Norm Coleman, signifying the voter’s intent to cross-out the vote for Coleman.

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The Franken campaign is attempting to invalidate this ballot because the name of a write in candidate is included but the ballot marked for Coleman.

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Frankenstein’s campaign claims the mark in the lower right hand corner is an “identifying mark” which technically is a violation of Minnesota law. Clearly no desire to respect the intent of the voter in this case.

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On the presidential portion of the ballot of this vote for Coleman a smudge appears along the left hand margin. The Franken campaign also claims this is an “identifying mark” which technically would invalidate the ballot.

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Frankenstein’s campaign claims the erasure mark over the Al Franken oval is an indication the voter intended to select Franken, even though the oval for the Independent candidate is clearly filled in.

Now you Know Why Dems Hate Electronic Voting Machines!

As of Thursday, Franken’s campaign has challenged 374 ballots and Coleman has challenged 360. And yet, Coleman’s lead keeps shrining. It’s gone from over 200 votes prior to the recount to 136 with more than half the state yet to complete the manual process.

At that point, the contested ballots will be sent to a canvassing board where the final determination will be made.

Clearly, none of these shenanigans would be possible if electronic voting machines were used where it was only possible to vote for a candidate, do a write in, or leave the vote for that race blank. Yet Democrats have conducted an organized effort to eliminate such machines.

Democrats have also conducted an organized campaign in key states like Minnesota to elect Secretaries of State who are sympathetic to seeing that the votes get counted their way. Big money men like George Soros have poured millions into efforts like the Secretary of State (S.O.S.) Project and it’s paying big dividends in Minnesota as it did earlier in Ohio and elsewhere.

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road warrior
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I don’t understand all this crap. If you lose you lose, just deal with it. And i am not willing to say this is just a illuminati democrat thing because didn’t Bush do the same thing in flordia a few years back? It’s a politician thing. Whoever loses ended up crying about it and demanding a recount. Get over it!

November 21st, 2008 at 9:27 am
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Road Warrior said: “didn’t Bush do the same thing in flordia a few years back? “

Really?

You’re right that we have seen this kind of thing before. But you you could not be more wrong in suggesting Bush did the same thing. It was GORE who tried to steal Florida from Bush.

Not sure where you get your “news” but even the mainstream “news” media conceded Bush won Florida.

Gore used the same tactics that these lefties in Minnesota are now trying to use against Coleman.

November 21st, 2008 at 9:55 am
Hard Right
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No, Bush didn’t do the same thing. It was Al Gore who called in the lawyers first to try and get rid of votes for Bush.

November 21st, 2008 at 9:55 am
ThomNJ
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uhhh, Roadwarrior – Bush did not cry about anything, it was Al Gore doing the crying.

November 21st, 2008 at 9:57 am
BarbaraS
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Just like a lefty. Accusing their opponents of doing their crimes. BTW, that is a clue. When a lefty accuses their opponent of a crime it is because they are doing this crime somewhere else.

November 21st, 2008 at 10:26 am
Real American Patriot
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Why don’t you tell the other side of the story MIKE???

this is just another bunch of right wing bull you sling around without telling the other side…

At this point both republicans and democrats have over 700 ballots they are contesting.
Franken volunteers had challenged 778 ballots; Coleman volunteers had challenged 747.

http://wcco.com/politics/recount.ballots.hold.2.870536.html

I noticed you didn’t show any of the votes Coleman is contesting….

How one sided can you be??
do you only see with your right eye??? do you only use your right hand??

November 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
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@Real American Patriot: Perhaps if you read more carefully before hitting the comment button you could have noticed:

“As of Thursday, Franken’s campaign has challenged 374 ballots and Coleman has challenged 360. And yet, Coleman’s lead keeps shrining. It’s gone from over 200 votes prior to the recount to 136 with more than half the state yet to complete the manual process. “

Now, would you like to apologize for your rude comment above or should I just consider it par for the course that you call me a blind bat when you clearly having a reading and comprehension disability.

But I do thank you for that update on the contested ballot totals.

It’s no coincidence that Franken’s vote total continues to climb.

November 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
Dennis D
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Gore even tried to claim all Buchanan votes were actually meant for him because Buchanan could never get so many votes from Jews in Miami.

November 22nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Real American Patriot
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Mike:

where are the pictures of the votes Coleman as questioned??? I don’t see those….
You just won’t show that side will you??? BOTH sides contested ballots look very similar from the pictures I have seen.

through saturday the count looks like this… only 3 ballots apart on challenged ballots…

Through Saturday, Franken volunteers had challenged 945 ballots; Coleman volunteers had challenged 948.

There is no way you can call this stealing an election!!!

November 23rd, 2008 at 6:02 am
Missy
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RAP, surely Franken has photos of ballots Coleman contested posted somewhere out there in liberal land, sure he would. Could it be that you aren’t posting the Coleman contested ballots because it would make Al Franken look more rediculous than he already does? Go get them, you probably know right where to look.

November 23rd, 2008 at 7:32 am
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C.R.A.P. asked “where are the pictures of the votes Coleman as questioned??? I don’t see those….”

Then you aren’t looking are you? They are linked in the post above as is the post describing the other suspicious irregularities of suddenly appearing caches of Franken only ballots.

November 23rd, 2008 at 8:08 am
wesmorgan1
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Well, there’s also the latest round of Coleman challenges, in which his folks are challenging ballots that have votes for McCain and Franken, on the presumption that “anyone who voted for McCain wanted to vote for Coleman too.” uptake.org… has the video, if you’re interested.

It’s a recount. Both sides are going to file lots of challenges, and more than a few are going to be completely bogus. We’ve seen it before, and we’ll see it again. I don’t think we can single out either side for farcical challenges.

November 24th, 2008 at 8:52 am
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Wes: If both sides do it then why is it only Franken’s total that goes up?

November 24th, 2008 at 9:09 am
AdrianS
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To: Electoral College, Congress of the United States, Federal Elections Commission, U.S. Supreme Court, President of the United States, other controlling legal authorities

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November 24th, 2008 at 11:08 am
wesmorgan1
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Actually, I believe Coleman’s total HAS gone up as well; it’s just that Franken’s total has gone up further. Minnesota Public Radio talked about this recently:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/11/11/shifting_vote_totals_not_unusual/

According to their review of 10 years’ worth of statewide races, the totals usually shift by about 1500 votes as the election offices clean up their numbers. In the most extreme case mentioned, the vote totals for the 2002 Senate election that seated Coleman changed by 50,000 votes after the polls closed. The difference here is that the margin is so incredibly small.

There’s also this, from Campaign Diaries:

“St. Louis County was particularly kind to Franken for the second day in a row. 18 of the county’s precincts use scanning machines (called Eagles) that require a voter draw an arrow. The machines are outdated, so they have trouble sensing the arrow when it is faintly drawn. Because the voter’s intent is clear, these ballot get tallied during the manual recount. Both candidates have added voters in this manner – but St. Louis County is a Democratic stronghold, which explains why Franken gained more.”

November 24th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
ew
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the leftist illuminati seems really opposed to admitting defeat. How much more obvious could that have been?

November 24th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Jon Katz
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People, chill out and let the vote come in. You people claim to be constitutionalists but then you bitch and moan when Minnesota follows its established election recount laws.

Coleman has contested just as many ballots as Franken. You are being complete hypocrites if you claim this is some left-wing conspiracy.

Also, I find it odd that you are advocating electronic voting, especially considering that some of these systems have been found to be easily hacked, thus making it even easier for a computer-savvy liberal to rig your election.

November 25th, 2008 at 12:43 am

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