More Fun In Minnesota: Franken Voters Sue To Get Their Ballots Counted
The Franken camp has yet another ace up their sleeves as they fight through the litigation in the Minnesota race. A new lawsuit has just been filed in state courts, a consolidated action by 64 voters who say their absentee ballots were wrongly rejected and are now seeking to have them put into the count.
The Franken campaign has not directly filed this lawsuit, but lead campaign attorney Marc Elias mentioned yesterday that they were giving it their support. Does this have a chance of succeeding? Absolutely, because the option of individual voters suing to get their ballots counted was an often-discussed legal remedy throughout this whole process. Now that we're in the contest phase, the Franken campaign and its supporters are really stepping up to compete.
And Coleman will probably do the exact same thing with enough voters that he'd come out ahead.
January 13, 2009 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sure about that? It's now about playing the percentages, and Quimby has to get an increasingly large number of a continually shrinking (uncounted) ballot pool.
Time and the numbers are no longer on Slimy Norman's side.
January 13, 2009 6:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who foots the bill for these lawsuits now? Is it Franken vs Coleman or are the parties involved?
January 13, 2009 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't WAIT until this genuine Fighting Democrat gets into the Senate and starts slapping Reid and the other ball-less wonders around.
Paul Wellstone is spinning in his grave - from excitement.
January 14, 2009 9:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Consider that at a minimum these 64 votes went 60/40 (and my guess is that they have expressed their vote intention to the lawyers) or 39 to 25 or difference of 14 and adding to the 225 up to 239.
It could be 80/20 for that matter 51/13...or even 50/50 and it reduces the pool of potential votes not counted.
Coleman's only possible course is to find a way to discard already counted votes...that is impossible.
January 14, 2009 11:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
the crazy but said part of this is Frankin lost votes in the county I helped monitor because of problems with rejected original and duplicate ballots. I don't think it would be possible to get a totally acurate count.
January 14, 2009 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink