[MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] BREAKING - State Canvassing Board Says Count Every Vote (fwd)

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The recount is supposed to be over on 12/16, that's only four days away. 
The decision that wrongly-rejected ballots should be counted (see below) 
makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?  They were *wrongly* rejected -- so why 
shouldn't the errors be corrected?  I don't understand the Coleman side on 
that one.  Another thing:  We don't know who the rejected absentees voted 
for, so maybe they voted mostly for Coleman.  There mus be some 
demographic data to suggest otherwise or else Coleman wouldn't object to 
counting the votes.

Mike


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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:47:28 -0500
From: "Andy Barr, Al Franken for Senate" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
To: Michael Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
Subject: BREAKING - State Canvassing Board Says Count Every Vote

Dear Friend,

We got some great news in the last hour.

The state canvassing board has soundly rejected the Coleman campaign's 
attempt to disenfranchise 133 voters in Minneapolis whose ballots were 
lost during the recount, unanimously deciding to count those votes. In 
addition, they urged Minnesota's 87 counties to identify, open, and count 
absentee ballots that were wrongly rejected.

This is a huge win for us, because our position has always been the simple 
principle that every lawful vote should be counted. But there are still a 
lot of steps left ahead in this process, and the Coleman campaign is 
likely to bring a whole lot of political and legal muscle to re-double 
their efforts to stop the count.

We won't let them - but we need your help. Your contribution of $25, $50, 
$100, or more will enable us to stand up for voters who did everything 
right but whose ballots were improperly thrown out. Just two days ago, we 
released a YouTube video featuring seven of those voters - and it's 
already been viewed over 37,000 times!

Please click here to make a contribution today.
http://www.alfranken.com/donate/

The state canvassing board's ruling was a huge boost to our efforts to see 
that every vote is counted fairly, but there's still a long way to go 
before the election is decided.

The good news is, when it's all said and done, we're more confident than 
ever that Al Franken will be Minnesota's next U.S. Senator.

Thanks for all your help - and please do make as generous a contribution as you can today!
http://www.alfranken.com/donate/

Andy Barr
Al Franken for Senate


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