’)Democrat Al Franken’s lead in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race has grown to 312 votes now that hundreds of absentee ballots have been added to the counting.
A three-judge panel ruled that the rejected absentee ballots should be opened and counted after hearing weeks of testimony in a lawsuit brought by Republican Norm Coleman.
Franken led by 225 votes going into Tuesday’s count of those absentee ballots.
So can we PLEASE seat Franken now? Christ, it’s April already…
Also: Screw Norm Coleman. Hypocritical, douchey piece of crap.
They want to drag this out until 2014
mambo – considering that MN law generally stipulates that the election result won’t be certified until the final legal appeal is exhasted, the R’s are just gonna keep filing baseless motions to keep Franken out of the Senate as long as possible. There are even rumors that Box-Turtle Cornyn will introduce a new amendment to the Constitution to create an Ultra-Super-Supreme Court just to hear this case if it doesn’t go their way in the old regular Supreme Court.
Ugh.
Of course, were the situation reversed, the Republicans would be supporting Franken’s appeals and wouldn’t begin to suggest it was some partisan attempt to thwart the will of the people.
Why, they just don’t do things like that.
Rheinhard: “mambo – considering that MN law generally stipulates that the election result won’t be certified until the final legal appeal is exhasted…”
Is it final, or state level. I’ve been confused on this point and I vaguely remember it being explained both ways.
Florida 2000? What was that?
I’m not sure I’d be doing handsprings if Franken were my senator, but what a slimy, hypocritical asshole this Coleman is. That man should never get anywhere near power. He just plain has bad character.
Got an answer… I think.
It is state level. As soon as the state rules, the Governor can sign the certificate. I’m not sure he will, but he can.