OUTRAGE: Ballots marked McCain and Franken challenged!!(video)

[kpete]

OUTRAGE: Ballots marked McCain and Franken challenged!!(video)
by SemDem
Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 08:55:50 AM PST

While FoxNews is doing its best to smear Al Franken by questioning some of his challenges of poorly marked ballots, (while ignoring the fact that Coleman is doing the same thing), the Coleman camp kicked it up a notch and did the unthinkable.

Coleman is now challenging ballots that were clearly marked for McCain for president and Franken for Senate--because anybody who voted McCain HAD to have meant to vote for Coleman!!!

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See the ballots for yourselves:
VIDEO and more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/23/11419/809/708/665429

[ecstatic]

1. That won't fly. Plenty of (racist?) Dems switched party lines for the Pres. selection

or of course, repubs/Independents who wanted a repub president and Dem senate.

[provis99]

9. huh? So they prefer a Jew over a black?

That's a little too conspiracy thinking.

[mucifer]

11. both senatorial candidates are Jewish.

[mucifer]

2. actually, that's a good sign that we will get lots more votes.

Right?

[backscatter712]

13. Assuming the judges that handle the challenges don't have their heads up their asses, yes.

I'd say that's a good sign.

[joeybee12]

3. Both are challenging as a Public Relations move...each side wants

to be able to say when the recount is done that they're still ahead, so they challenge even what they know is a clear choice to mnake sure legit ballots aren't counted. This was Bush's strategy in 2000...have Fox call him the winner, and once it's out there, facts to the contrary don't matter because at one point you can say you've won, and it makes it look suspicious when you suddenly haven't won. Both sides are playing hardball, so this won't be decided until all those challenges are gone over mid-december.

[prolesunited]

4. I call bullshit

Obama won Indiana, but GOP Daniels retained his seat as governor. Plenty of people split their votes.

[AtomicKitten]

5. Sounds like Coleman could use a ride in the Waaaaambulance.

[WeDidIt]

6. I guess we know why Franken's vote count differs

from the official count now, eh?

Coleman is down to trying to flip legitimate votes for the most bogus of reasons possible.

[uppityperson]

7. k&r for bullshit. Sometimes people vote across party lines.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. By this reasoning Coleman would lose big time. Since Obama won by 10 percent.

Since people never split tickets, or cross over.

Just sayin'.

[Ozma]

15. Yes, exactly! Franken should challenge each and every Obama/Coleman ballot n/t

[No Elephants]

10. Bad faith. There should be a penalty for challenging on such frivolous grounds.

[HughMoran]

12. That's fine - who cares what he challenges - they'll end up in Franken's column

If Franken wins after the challenged ballots, he'll look like an idiot, if Franken still loses, it won't matter anyway.

[Ozma]

14. Hubris of Coleman folks... that's all it is!

Coleman obviously never talked with many people who are not Republicans, nor talked to people who don't like him.

[tekisui]

16. By that logic, all ballots that show Franken, McCain, should go Obama.

[JimWis]

17. What BS. Count them as marked. Many people don't vote a

straight party ticket. They vote for the person for each office.