Eesh: Franken Claims Coleman Lead Down to 50, and That Doesn't Include the Most Recent "Suddenly Discovered Uncounted Ballots"

Don't panic -- he's made statements like this before. Preparing the public, perhaps, for a court challenge or Senate choice of Franken over the true winner. These estimates seem based on what he expects to happen, not actual counted votes.

So discount this heavily, unless confirmed by independent sources... which still put Coleman's lead at around 340.

Minnesota Democrat Al Franken’s lead attorney said Tuesday that his count shows the comedian trailing Sen. Norm Coleman by just 50 votes with more than 200,000 left to be counted.
Attorney Marc Elias held his press conference in Washington just hours after elections officials found nearly 200 ballots that had not been counted on election night.
So far, the Franken campaign claims to have picked up 165 votes in the hotly contested recount. That number, Elias said, includes all ballots challenged by both campaigns, assuming any calls made by neutral election judges on the scene are accurate. Coleman’s campaign has challenged approximately 300 more ballots than Franken’s, leaving those votes off the official tally posted on the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website, which shows Coleman leading by 340 votes.
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Elias said the Secretary of State’s office estimates that at least 500 ballots were rejected without cause, though the Franken campaign thinks the number is closer to 1,000. Franken’s campaign intends to question the cause of those ballots’ rejection, citing some elections officials who have admitted the ballots were mistakenly set aside.
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The uncertainty of the recount was evident again Tuesday as Ramsey County elections officials found an additional 171 ballots that hadn't been counted on election night. A broken voting machine had been replaced, but those who used the first machine never had their ballots recounted. Elias said the missing ballots were an example of why the recount needed to continue, though he refused to comment further.
The new discoveries are likely to shrink Coleman’s slim lead. Ramsey County, centered in St. Paul, gave Franken a 52 percent-to-34 percent margin, with Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley pulling 13 percent of the vote. The ballots were found in Maplewood's Precinct 6, which favored Franken over Coleman, 45 percent to 39 percent on Election Day.

Posted by: Ace at 06:32 PM

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1 So, he's a failed comedian, a failed radio host, and now a failed politician. Why is Harry Reid going to want him around, again?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 02, 2008 06:37 PM (fnoZ9)

2 Ace,

In the past, didn't you post pictures of fine ass women? Nothing pornographic, just damn fine?

I have given up pornography in an attempt to make sex with my wife more intense. I haven't watched porn for about two months now and it makes any kind of skin I see that much more enticing. It has actually made sex better with my wife.

I am still looking at pictures of pretty ladies though. If you have any pictures laying around of fine ass women, please post them.

Thanks,
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Posted by: Uniball at December 02, 2008 06:40 PM (27iEn)

3 Well I want to know where all the exit polls are for the GA senate race.

Posted by: Wolverine at December 02, 2008 06:49 PM (FVGJ9)

Hey, I just found 60 votes for Franken in my basement.

And I live in Colorado. Whooda thunk?

Posted by: Ronster at December 02, 2008 06:51 PM (hP5A8)

5 I want my exit polls.......

Posted by: Wolverine at December 02, 2008 06:53 PM (FVGJ9)

6 @#$%&%$#@!

Posted by: Wolverine at December 02, 2008 06:54 PM (FVGJ9)

Uni(blue)ball?

Posted by: Lee at December 02, 2008 06:57 PM (TxTIh)

8 Posted by: Uniball at December 02, 2008 06:40 PM (27iEn)

Bwhahahahahahahahah! That so reminded me of Smoove B!

On topic, I have nothing to add to the running Franken commentary other than asserting that he's a syphilitic cock garage with delusions of competency and rational thought.

Posted by: Jazz at December 02, 2008 06:59 PM (hnq5i)

9 Is wasting our time a criminal offense? 'Cause I really want to charge Franken with it.

Posted by: Iblis at December 02, 2008 06:59 PM (9221z)

10 Can those "neutral election judges" decide, at some point, that this idiot is more trouble than he's worth and put him down like a stray dog?

Posted by: AngelEm at December 02, 2008 07:04 PM (EyKhI)

As I said earlier, as soon as they know Chambliss' fate, they will decide on whether or not to steal it for Franken.

Chamblis loss = Franken gets the seat

Chamblis win = Coleman gets the seat

Posted by: Bart at December 02, 2008 07:12 PM (fFYro)

12 For anybody interested. Georgia results.... http://tinyurl.com/6gthhz

Posted by: MFin G I M P at December 02, 2008 07:14 PM (M3aIq)

I have given up pornography in an attempt to make sex with my wife more intense. I haven't watched porn for about two months now and it makes any kind of skin I see that much more enticing. It has actually made sex better with my wife.

What a fuckin' choir boy. I actually have sex with the wife to get me warmed up for some porn.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 02, 2008 07:17 PM (5GNS+)

14 I think Chambliss wins by at least five pts so woohoo, Norm will be happy, given #11's scenario, which may be plausible. I think the dems will fight till the last breath for Minnesota.

Posted by: Wolverine at December 02, 2008 07:19 PM (FVGJ9)

1% in...Chambliss 67%

Posted by: Jason at December 02, 2008 07:21 PM (SgOkM)

16 Chambliss is handing him his ass on a silver platter. Where's all the Dimwits that voted for Obummer? Ludicris just couldn't get them to put down the crack pipe a second time to go vote for a white guy.

Posted by: RFA at December 02, 2008 07:24 PM (SI1K/)

They need to start sending people's ballots back to them with a stamp on it verifying that it was actually counted.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 02, 2008 07:25 PM (5GNS+)

18 this is going to tighten up as urban vote comes in ... but saxby will still win comfortably i think ...

Posted by: Wolverine at December 02, 2008 07:27 PM (FVGJ9)

19 Oh! yeah... Franken is such a loser. I wonder how the people who voted for him feel about his public displays of sheer stupidity.

Poor poor Minnesota.

Posted by: RFA at December 02, 2008 07:28 PM (SI1K/)

20 Can't remember where I saw this today, but if I recall, the black vote in GA was like 34% of total vote for pres. Something like 22 -23% so far for senate.

Posted by: Wolverine at December 02, 2008 07:29 PM (FVGJ9)

I am still looking at pictures of pretty ladies though. If you have any pictures laying around of fine ass women, please post them.

FYI, if you go to Power Line blog, Uniball, they have pictures up of the Miss World (or Universe?) pageant currently being run in South Africa.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 02, 2008 07:39 PM (MJZdi)

#20 I think that stat was reported at HotAir, Wolverine.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 02, 2008 07:41 PM (MJZdi)

23 Franken's going to steal this election with or without being "voted" in. It seems to have become a tradition this year for the illuminati Democrats to win, despite public votes.

Posted by: RJ at December 02, 2008 07:41 PM (7nbTg)

This is what happens when the electorate tells Franken to stuff it.

Posted by: booter at December 02, 2008 07:49 PM (eimUK)

25 This damn Franken thing -- just get it over with. Geez.

Posted by: Kay at December 02, 2008 07:53 PM (DKZtn)

thanks #22 found it again here ...

http://tinyurl.com/5c8q4g

Posted by: Wolverine at December 02, 2008 07:59 PM (FVGJ9)

27 They need Franken in DC as a fluffer to get the old guard in the Senate warmed up for going on C(omatose)Span. The fact that AL swallows (and pays for your meal) will make him a very popular bitch, in the Senate and later, in prison, where his ignorance and general assholic nature willl no doubt land him. I imagine he'll enjoy reforming the penile penal system from "the inside."
He might even enjoy holding Ted Stevens beltloop as old Ted trades him for a pack of Viceroys and some apple jack brewed in a sink.
Yeppers, Al is gonna enjoy DC...but Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Federal Prison?
Not so much...I can hardly wait.

Posted by: enter sandman at December 02, 2008 08:03 PM (Tel5a)

28 Oh, Al is an asshat and a cockholster, as well as a snatch faced candy-ass.

Posted by: enter sandman at December 02, 2008 08:04 PM (Tel5a)

29 This always cracks me up. Every time they have a recount, thousands of previously unknown and uncounted ballots show up. Excuse me? These ballots were just... ignored the first time around? How the hell do all these ballots somehow elude the process? Someone leave them in the back of their car?

There's only two ways to look at this: 1) either the entire election process is so shoddy and sloppy that huge stacks of ballots just slip through the cracks and never get counted normally 2) these are transparently false and fraudulent ballots "discovered" to pus the election toward the candidate favored by the political machine.

The fact that shamelessly in front of the world they do it this way is a clear demonstration of the lack of consequences for electoral fraud.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 02, 2008 08:43 PM (0+Ggj)

30 I voting for Democratic Party voter fraud, Who's with me?

Posted by: torabora at December 02, 2008 09:07 PM (bIRAX)

31 This is stupid. The freakin election was a month ago. At what point does someone in authority say, "okay, you're a moron. Go home."?

Posted by: katya at December 02, 2008 09:29 PM (G3frc)

32 You morons. You've heard of the 12 Days of Xmas? How about 12 days of finding 'new' votes? When you get to Partridge in a Pear Tree Franken's ahead.

Posted by: DFL Officials at December 02, 2008 10:01 PM (6T3zW)

This guy is such a wackjob. At this point, why would Reid fix it for him? He can't shut his big mouth and this is the topic that is on everyones mind, that Dems will try and steal this despite Coleman ahead.

As power hungry as the Dems are, I can't imagine anyone wanting to get stuck with this fuckwad for 2 minutes.

Posted by: Jody C. at December 02, 2008 10:13 PM (B/Y39)

34 Only in that F'n ice cold state could Bozo the Clown even be running close to an actual politician. They did give the keys to a wrestler once too. Must be the lack of global warming up there.

Posted by: Roy at December 02, 2008 10:39 PM (KHzU4)

35 Reid will fights to get Frankin in and here is why, He needs a freaking nut he can count on, the Blue Dog Dems will follow him up to a point but then they will say "this is too far" and break away. Harry Reid will need every vote he can get to push his agenda through, Given the chance he will rule in favor of Frankin.

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36 AL FREAKLAND AS ANNOYING AS GEORGE STUPIDNOPOLOUS

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