I’m traveling today so not much blogging from me but thought I would check in to give some good news:
…with nearly 80 percent of the ballots recounted and Norm Coleman clinging to a roughly 200-vote lead over Al Franken, a resolution finally looks to be on the horizon
And the bad news:
All eyes will now turn to the five-member statewide canvassing board as it meets Wednesday morning to deal with the thorny question of whether to consider absentee ballots that were rejected by local election officials. The Franken campaign believes that the panel must do so in order to compile a complete and credible vote tally; the Coleman campaign argues such rejected ballots are outside the body’s jurisdiction.
But no matter the canvassing board’s decision, the issue is likely to ultimately end up in court.
Even worse news:
Perhaps the most intriguing wrinkle to consider when looking at possible litigation is the makeup of the canvassing board. Minnesota Supreme Court justices Eric Magnuson and G. Barry Anderson are both serving on the panel. This means that they would need to recuse themselves from any litigation related to the senate recount that comes before the state’s top court. Given that both were GOP appointees, this would seem to be an unwelcome development for the Coleman campaign.
But if this debacle goes on into January Gov. Pawlenty will be able to fill the seat, which would be Coleman, but then another election would have to be held next year….and you can bet your ass ACORN will be out in force to ensure as much voter fraud as possible once again.
UPDATE
A bit more good news to go with all that bad:
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.
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Curt,
YOU ARE RIGHT. But, Acorn is not the only ones doing fraud. Apparently Google is destroying some conservative blog’s sites. Read this:
BOYCOTT GOOGLE
November 27, 2008 by texasdarlin
Politics aside (I’m a PUMA), I am standing by my friend and ally, conservative blogger Atlas Shrugs/Pamela Geller, who has been blacklisted by Google.
Let’s repeat that.
Google, the world’s number one search engine, is apparently adjusting its search engines to restrict access to anti-Obama information on the world wide web. I don’t know of a more intelligent, hard-working, ethical anti-Obama blogger than Atlas Shrugs. If Google is disappearing Pamela’s work, it’s flagrant political content-based censorship. Welcome to Obama’s Regime. And they say he’s a “liberal?”
Read Pam’s report here. It’s shocking and disturbing. But not surprising, in that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is reportedly in line to be Obama’s chief Tech Advisor.
Go to Atlas Shrugs and support her with a donation, so she can pay an expensive security consultant to get her work re-established in the blogosphere.
There isn’t much that raises my ire like good ole fashioned censorship. I’ve witnessed state-controlled societies first-hand, and I will fight until they drag me out of the ring to ensure that speech is free of political interference.
I haven’t checked to see if Google has tampered with “texasdarlin” searches. Please let me know. In the meantime, go lend Pam some love and muscle.
Effective immediately, I will no longer use Google search engine, or Gmail.
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/
And that’s not all. Listen to James David Manning, PhD and author of The Olation Hour.
THE GREATEST AMERICAN FRAUD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1spPrzvYWRI
P.S.: My first comment is still awaiting moderation.
It seems they have completed nearly 90% of the recount but it is very confusing:
http://electionresults.sos.state.mn.us/20081104/SenateRecount.asp
The Star Tribune puts the Coleman lead at 282 votes:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/
There is one large chunk of ballots yet to be counted by the Dec. 5th (Friday) deadline and I am not sure, but I think it is Minneapolis, the largest urban area of the state.
As we all know from experience that’s where last minute new votes are readily found in abundance by Democrats working on those boards. They wait to report their results last so they can determine how many more votes they need. It’s the same thing we have seen in places like Seattle and in the Indiana primary between Hillary and Obama with Gary Indiana reporting last.
I’m cautiously optimistic at this point but it’s not over until it is over.
Next, we have the runoff in neighboring Georgia with Saxby Chambliss (R) holding the lead. That vote takes place on Tuesday Dec. 2. Sarah Palin is coming to the state on Monday to help get out the vote.
Norm Coleman (R) 1,044,255 Contesting 2448 ballots
Al Franken (DFL) 1,040,285 Contesting 2292 ballots
Current Lead 3,970
Net gain from Nov. 4 count Coleman +77
Ballots Recounted: 86.04%
Precints Reporting: 89.64%
8:00 p.m. – 11/26/2008
http://wcco.com/
The Big question comes from what becomes of the contested ballots.
Note that Sheehan, won’t speak to the present tense of Franken being in the lead now, and runs to the future, on this Friday.
This is good news.
While that’s happening, Powerline looks at Coleman’s recount prospects and states:
“I am worried. I think you would be right to be worried.”
As today’s count progresses, Tim Carney at Human Events:
“At the moment, a Franken win looks slightly more likely than a Coleman win.”