The remedy? A do-over.

Yes.

That is the only solution. Of course in a FAIR election we know who would win and it ain’t the assclown from SNL!!@!!

The American election system has been compromised by thugs and cheats, and you’re sick of hearing about this.

What has happened to American exceptionalism?
What has happened to accountability with Americans?
What has happened to human integrity with Americans?
What has happened to the old idea of winning over your fellow people by way of ideas and solutions?

Screw Frankin and his band of thugs and cheats! I hope we keep hearing about this until some accountability appears!

Has anyone actually seen Franken’s birth certificate?

The court will in fact determine that the recount is invalid due to the various reasons mentioned most everywhere. This will leave the initial machine count as the only legitimate one.

The canvasing board/secretary of state in Minnesota will then have to determine if it is possible to conduct a legitimate recount. If they determine they need to try to count them again, then they will. If they determine that the integrity of the ballots has been compromised, which is what is indicated by the various descrepencies in the hand count, then the initial machine count will stand.

Now me, I find it funny that after all the years of machine counts, there are so many people that dont remember just how bad hand counting actually is! In fact, it was because of all of the terrible mistakes made in hand counting that we went to machine counting in the first place.

Fragile Little Snowflake Franken has had a glimpse of victory. At one point in time, his pea brain registered the fact that yes, he could be a United States Senator!!

To see him get completely and utterly crushed in a run off with the whole country watching would be almost as good as busting him a good one right in the chops.

Almost…

Who believes that telling a bunch of partisans the exact (and small) number of votes they need to produce to get their candidate elected is a more accurate way to count the votes then election night?

Count the votes and finalize the tally and that should be it.

We’ve seen this happen in three high profile elections now and the whole one that didn’t turn into a *complete* fiasco is the one that was stopped in the middle of the theft, err, process – Bush v Gore in Florida…

/sorry ed, i’m still dissing mn until they clean up this mess …

heck here we even had the dead voting not once but twice..
so i thought this could never happen again..

nope you hired him morons..

Since you guys elected a wrestler as governor, I think that set the precedent. A caged death-match.

connertown on January 15, 2009 at 6:38 PM

I’d like to think Norm would kick a lung out of FrankenSpaz, but Norm kinda comes off as not real tough.

But I do think Norm would have the wontons to show up for battle. Franken…not so much.

DO IT OVER!!!!

Franken will be all against a run off. He knows he’ll get beat…badly.

Does Minnesota really need two Senators? Or, more to the point, does Minnesota deserve two Senators?

Since you guys elected a wrestler as governor, I think that set the precedent. A caged death-match.

connertown on January 15, 2009 at 6:38 PM

THUNDERDOME!

Two candidates enter, one candidate leaves!

Fuck the politicians, the citizens should DEMAND a new election between Coleman and Franken. This puts the final decision where it belongs, WITH THE PEOPLE.

GarandFan on January 15, 2009 at 7:48 PM

I agree and I don’t.

I agree that if the election was so botched by procedure and mismanagement it needs a new election. But what does it mean to those other offices on the same tickets? Are there close elections out there that are effected by these ballots that are included or not?

In a statewide vote (like US Senator) how do you re-vote without putting the results for all the other races in question where the voting was close? It’s a legitmate question. Keep in mind those included and excluded votes only concerned themselves with the Senate race. How many of them have the potential of changing other “certified” outcomes?

will the vote for lizard man survive a supreme court review.

rob verdi on January 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM

I believe so. He’s being sworn in next week.

Oh… did you mean some other reptile?

/sarc

REDO!

A do-over with that allows all comers to vote would end up an ACORN fiasco with newly registered folks coming in from everywhere to vote.

But wait, I’m sure that legal scholar, Harry Reid, will soon weigh in and try to seat the Democrat, because you know, that all that is important now days.

Romeo13 on January 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM

Legal scholar Joe Biden will instruct everyone about how Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a television address after the stock market crash of 1929 and solved the dilemma of a contested senatoral election.

Does Minnesota really need two Senators? Or, more to the point, does Minnesota deserve two Senators?

Question 1: Yes per the Constitution.

Question 2: Iffy at best. Outside of California, MN is the most likely state to elect freaks and extremists. They shame that whole Midwest values things by their selections. Coleman is no prize but he should have won in a walk over something like Franken. If it is this close, the state deserves the freak.