Minnesota's new Senator???
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Just to elaborate on Chris' post...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123111967642552909.html
Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as "duplicate" and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.
Last month, Mr. Franken's campaign charged that one Hennepin County (Minneapolis) precinct had "lost" 133 votes, since the hand recount showed fewer ballots than machine votes recorded on Election Night. Though there is no proof to this missing vote charge -- officials may have accidentally run the ballots through the machine twice on Election Night -- the Canvassing Board chose to go with the Election Night total, rather than the actual number of ballots in the recount. That decision gave Mr. Franken a gain of 46 votes.Meanwhile, a Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night. In that case, the board decided to go with the extra ballots, rather than the Election Night total, even though the county is now showing more ballots than voters in the precinct. This gave Mr. Franken a net gain of 37 votes, which means he's benefited both ways from the board's inconsistency.
And then there are the absentee ballots. The Franken campaign initially howled that some absentee votes had been erroneously rejected by local officials. Counties were supposed to review their absentees and create a list of those they believed were mistakenly rejected. Many Franken-leaning counties did so, submitting 1,350 ballots to include in the results. But many Coleman-leaning counties have yet to complete a re-examination. Despite this lack of uniformity, and though the state Supreme Court has yet to rule on a Coleman request to standardize this absentee review, Mr. Ritchie's office nonetheless plowed through the incomplete pile of 1,350 absentees this weekend, padding Mr. Franken's edge by a further 176 votes.
I do find it quite amusing how people seem to think a nearly 500-600 vote difference is just normal happenstance during elections.
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StangerBanger96;254216 wrote:
Well yes the people that voted for him are idiots but for varying reasons...I have a feeling one of the big reasons was just that (R) next to Colemans name had a big part to play in it. A lot of idiots just figure Bush = R, therefore R = bad or Bush = R, Coleman = R, therefore Bush = Coleman. Not just in this senate race but in many races across the country. So yes, in that regard they are idiots.
Wow, nice ignorant remark.More like I voted Coleman last time, felt like I received absolutely nothing from him being a senator rather than him collecting the paycheck.
Probably not the only one to think that. Plus he comes off to me as a douche.
I guarantee I'm not the only one who thinks that.
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STiSchucky;254234 wrote:
Wow, nice ignorant remark.More like I voted Coleman last time, felt like I received absolutely nothing from him being a senator rather than him collecting the paycheck.
Probably not the only one to think that. Plus he comes off to me as a douche.
I guarantee I'm not the only one who thinks that.
I don't try to be politically correct.
My statement was meant to convey this...A large portion of people voted that way I bet, not EVERYONE voted that way. In no way did I say you voted for him because of that, just that a large chunk of people probably did. Not everyone is as informed on politics as people on this board even. A large portion of voters base their decision soley on political ads or because of the letter next to the persons name, rather than what the person stands for or believes.
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So persuade me.
What has Coleman done for him to receive my vote again?
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What did you expect him to do?
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integra_gsr98;254237 wrote:
What did you expect him to do?
I dont know, Im the idiot, apparently. It's not like the states 6,000,000,000 dollars in debt, thats a start I'd guess. -
DaveH;254240 wrote:
You might want to check into what a Senator actually does.
Hey the Govt's making it rain liek Chuck does at the Northern, why not give a state in the actual union a little bit of that cheese. -
ND didn't need any money?
Conservative State = budget surplus
Liberal State full of Whiners = in the holemakes you think hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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So..nobody going to tell me why I should've voted for Coleman?
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thrash;254204 wrote:
if the nukes are truly gone from ND (are they? that's news to me), that means uncle sam will be that much less interested in stopping us
No, I'm talking about the hundreds of silos that they've been filling in over the past 10-15 years to make Russia happy.
Per the information I was given a few years ago - Had ND Receded from the union during the cold war it would've been the most powerful country in the world based off of military power.
(now is where Chuck or Dave or someone steps in and confirms/denies this claim)
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STiSchucky;254249 wrote:
So..nobody going to tell me why I should've voted for Coleman?Usually when someone is in office you keep them there unless they do something you don't like or have done something to hurt your lifestyle...so...what did he do?
I can do some digging tomorrow regarding things he has done or has been involved in.
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When considering the legislature, incumbency is actually important, because seniority (# of terms served) determines your standing within subcommittees, and most important work happens in subcommittees.
So if you want your guy to be able to bring home the bacon maximally, he needs to be in the right subcommittees and he needs to have been there for a while. So you have to be pretty upset with a guy to unseat the incumbent.
But this is really besides the point, because Al Franken sucks. To vote for him you'd need to make the case that coleman sucked more.
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