Why can't they just have a runoff election in Minnesota for Coleman and Franken?  |
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|  The excuse I kept hearing was how it would cost taxpayer dollars. Well here we are now, FOUR MONTHS LATER, and they are still fighting it out in court, and still have more votes to count. Georgia in the meantime ran a quick and simple runoff election that put Saxby Chambliss in the senate with absolutely no question that he was a valid winner of the election. With the mess in Minnesota right now it's clear that no winner will really be seen as valid since both candidates have won at some point.
We've now wasted four months worth of taxpayer dollars in legal battles over this election and it has resulted in Minnesota only having half the representation that they should have. At this point I don't think anyone can deny that a runoff election would have been not only simpler, but cheaper as well.
Is there anyone at this point who would be against a runoff election to get this crap over with?
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1.  xfahctor (7623)
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3 years ago
| |  Hard to say. It isn't my state actually. I guess it's up to the people of Minnisota to get fed up with the nonsense and finaly do something. I do pity them though, after all it's their tax dollars and their time being wasted and their representation being denied. In my personal opinoion though, the longer Franken is kept out of washington the better. The guy's a loon and god knows there's already enough of them in congress as it is.
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2.  moonlitmagikchild (8089)
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3 years ago
| |  what they still havent picked one?!?! i hadnt heard it mentioned in awhile so i figured they had sorted it out by now.. how ridiculous!
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 Taskr36 (6782)
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3 years ago
| | Nope, it's still tied up in the courts. Coleman sued over various issues. The courts ruled that they would include some 4,000 rejected absentee ballots. Then Franken sued and got them to lower it to 3,000. Now Franken is suing again to bring it down to 2,000, while trying to get more votes counted in other areas that are more likely to vote democrat. | | | |
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3.  anniepa (11669)
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3 years ago
| |  Minnesota wouldn't only have half the representation they should if Norm Coleman would have followed his own advice and dropped it months ago! Following the election he called for Franken to concede because the recount would cost too much. now that it appears he's going to lose in court again he's calling for a special election. It really doesn't make a bit of difference what you or I think, it's up to the people of Minnesota and their policy is to do it the way it was done. Coleman said in the beginning that if he'd been trailing on election night he'd have stepped aside. Can you say now that he isn't a hypocrite?
Annie
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| Taskr36 (6782)
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3 years ago
| | No I can't because he wasn't trailing on election night. I consider Franken's lead to be bogus. Even you must be able to look at the way the challenged ballots were decided and know something fishy was going on. That's not even getting into the issue with some areas having more votes than voters. How can anyone allow that to happen without question? | | | |
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| 4. ladyluna (2495)
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3 years ago
| |  Hello Taskr,
Excellent discussion. This has gone so far beyond 'let every vote count' straight to 'theater of the absurd'.
This is one more example of the vote of the people having been confiscated and turned over to be 'decided' by the judiciary. Can anything be farther from the principles of our Founding Fathers and the Constitution?
It's not too late. There should be a run-off election scheduled no later than tomorrow. Although, the Democrats will never agree to it because without Obama's name, and draw to the polls, the result will mimmick that of the Georgia run-off election. The DNC's effort to get people to the polls for that special election was an abject failure. Despite the many 'rich and famous' who were employed to try to ratchet up excitement for the Chamblis/Martin race.
It is because the DNC knows that Franken will lose in a run off that they keep pushing this insanity that serves no purpose than to disrespect 'We The People' as well as the office!!!
This Coleman/Franken mess should be remembered as the power addicted, authoritarian boondoggle that it really is!
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| Taskr36 (6782)
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3 years ago
| | I think the democrats knew they didn't have a chance at the runoff in Georgia either. Obama didn't even bother to participate. Then they used people like "Ludacris" to encourage voting there. Yeah, there's the guy you want telling people what to do. | | | |
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