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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: Chris_ on January 23, 2009, 06:04:58 AM
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Court rejects Franken bid to stop recount lawsuit
A three-judge panel has refused Democrat Al Franken's request to block a lawsuit over the Minnesota Senate recount outcome.
Franken came out on top of Republican Norm Coleman by 225 votes in the recount. But Coleman is contesting the result.
The dismissal means the trial on Coleman's lawsuit starts Monday.
Coleman argues that the recount process was flawed. He says votes were double-counted in some precincts and that more absentee ballots should be admitted.
LINK (http://www.dglobe.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D95SGTJ83)
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http://www.dglobe.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D95SGTJ83
ST. PAUL, Minn.
A three-judge panel has refused Democrat Al Franken's request to block a lawsuit over the Minnesota Senate recount outcome.....
The dismissal means the trial on Coleman's lawsuit starts Monday.
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Beat ya to it :-)
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,21112.0.html
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Ooops.
Maybe someone can merge?
It's out of my territory, and I can't.
My apologies.
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LINK (http://www.dglobe.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D95SGTJ83)
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Norm is a sore loser. The poor guy should just leave, he is defeated.
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Norm is a sore loser. The poor guy should just leave, he is defeated.
Funny.
We were saying that about YOU retards for 8 years and you didn't get the hint...
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Norm is a sore loser. The poor guy should just leave, he is defeated.
Oh, look. A new retard.
Tell me about the thousands of votes not counted, selectively, that made al the winner?
Sore loser? Sore winner more like it. All you dems seem to be made in the same mold of WAAAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
bitchslapped for being a dumb ****
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a reasonable request, but it was denied. so the coleman lawsuit goes forward, but probably goes forward fairly unprepared. I think
that norm is toast, and MN will actually seat senator dork. what an unfortunate day for the entire state.
Judges refuse Coleman ballot inspection request
A trio of judges rejected Republican Norm Coleman's request to investigate alleged vote-counting irregularities in precincts around the state over the weekend, just days before they begin hearing Coleman's lawsuit over the Minnesota Senate recount.
Coleman's lawyers identified 86 precincts where they said problems may have contributed to Democrat Al Franken's 225-vote lead after the recount. Coleman is suing to overturn the result.
The judges said Coleman didn't prove that the inspections were necessary to prepare for the trial, which starts Monday and is expected to last weeks.
"The court is not convinced that another inspection of the ballots is efficient or needed to prepare for trial," the judges wrote.
Coleman's lawyers had said they wanted inspectors to have access not just to ballots but to voter rolls, in order to figure out why in some precincts more people were listed as having voted than there were actual votes. But the judges wrote that state law doesn't allow that.
More (http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/38235094.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU)
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if he can get the whole recount thrown out, then Coleman's back up by those, what, 700 votes? With uniform standards (and no way to create more false votes at this point in the game) he might hold on.
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if he can get the whole recount thrown out, then Coleman's back up by those, what, 700 votes? With uniform standards (and no way to create more false votes at this point in the game) he might hold on.
I'm not a lawyer but I play one on the interwebs...
...it's my understanding that in order for a civil case to proceed relief has to be possible. In other words the judges ask themselves, "Yeah, but what can we do about it?" If nothing is possible they don't bother. If Franken were ahead by--for the sake of agument--20,000 votes but only 500 votes were in dispute obviously there is no point in proceeding.
Apparently it would be possible for Coleman to take this back.