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Posted by Marak555 on Nov-23-2008 02:12:

Al Fraken moving closer towards Senate Seat

Anyone else following the race? Al Franken is picking up quite a bit of slack in the recount. I'm wondering when that tipping point is going to appear.


Posted by The17sss on Nov-23-2008 05:11:

Anyone surprised George Soros is providing the funding for the recount efforts? This whole thing stinks. How about when they blatantly lied about the woman whose ballot got rejected because her signature had changed...due to a stroke.

quote:
"We are still investigating," Franken spokesman Andy Barr said Thursday night, adding that while the woman's absentee ballot was rejected it was not because of her shaky signature as he reported a few hours earlier.

Franken's U.S. Senate campaign originally said an 84-year-old Beltrami County woman's post-stroke handwriting did not match her voter registration signature, so election officials rejected her ballot.

The county's top elections official said she told the Franken campaign that was not the case.

"Beltrami County does not have one ballot that was rejected because signatures didn't match and the Franken campaign was clearly told that," County Auditor-Treasurer Kay Mack said. "I don't know where they are getting that from."


https://secure.forumcomm.com/bemidj...ab948b55b1f5259

This is why candidates don't do the "investigating". County boards make those decisions, and this latest lie from Franken shows the wisdom of that approach. The county flat out told him that no ballot got rejected on the basis of signature, and the campaign made that claim to the national media anyway.


Posted by jerZ07002 on Nov-23-2008 17:04:

quote:
Originally posted by The17sss
Anyone surprised George Soros is providing the funding for the recount efforts? This whole thing stinks. How about when they blatantly lied about the woman whose ballot got rejected because her signature had changed...due to a stroke.



https://secure.forumcomm.com/bemidj...ab948b55b1f5259

This is why candidates don't do the "investigating". County boards make those decisions, and this latest lie from Franken shows the wisdom of that approach. The county flat out told him that no ballot got rejected on the basis of signature, and the campaign made that claim to the national media anyway.



wow....you can assess the veracity of a claim based on a forum post. very impressive.


Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Nov-24-2008 04:40:

quote:
Originally posted by jerZ07002
wow....you can assess the veracity of a claim based on a forum post. very impressive.


Well, you can certainly take anything posted on TA to the bank, right?


Posted by The17sss on Nov-24-2008 21:49:

quote:
Originally posted by jerZ07002
wow....you can assess the veracity of a claim based on a forum post. very impressive.


this is a little more than a "forum" post, calling out Franken's obvious lie:

The county's top elections official said she told the Franken campaign that was not the case.

"Beltrami County does not have one ballot that was rejected because signatures didn't match and the Franken campaign was clearly told that," County Auditor-Treasurer Kay Mack said. "I don't know where they are getting that from."


Posted by shaolin_Z on Nov-25-2008 04:12:

CNN Interview with Al Franken



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