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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (56393)	12/3/2008 2:28:53 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

Sickening. They did it just like the State of Washington. Just kept finding more votes. It stinks. Franken's camp was greatly aided when Ramsey County officials found 171 ballots that went uncounted Election Night. That netted Franken 37 votes, and is currently larger than his current lead, according to Franken's count. Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan disputed the Franken numbers, and accused the Franken campaign of being "prepared to say and do anything to win an election that they lost on Election Night.". "Today, they’ve invented a story of a lead in the recount," said Sheehan. "We have confidence that on Friday the results of the recount will show Norm Coleman has emerged, again, as the winner of the 2008 United States Senate election.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (56393)	12/3/2008 6:23:06 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224724

Minneapolis discovery costs Franken 36 votes By Jason Hoppin, twincities.com 12/03/2008 04:29:03 PM CST What Maplewood giveth, Minneapolis taketh away. Elections officials in Minnesota's largest city today discovered that one precinct came up 133 ballots short of election day totals, resulting in a net loss for Democratic challenger Al Franken of 36 votes. The development wipes away what had been a boon for Franken in his bid to overtake Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, after Ramsey County officials found an additional 37 votes for Franken from a Maplewood precinct on Tuesday. Minneapolis elections director Cindy Reichert said she believes the error occurred when election judges at the precinct on election night mistakenly ran ballots with write-in candidates through a counting machine twice. There were 129 such ballots. Reichert said although the numbers do not match exactly, she is confident that that's what happened and will report those numbers to the Secretary of State's Office. She also detailed a search for any potential missing envelopes that contain ballots, including opening the counting machine, talking to election judges and calling the church where the polling place was located. "We believe that we have all the ballot envelopes here," Reichert said. "There are human errors that are made on election day."