Senate trial focuses on absentee processing (Franken-Coleman recount)

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Source: Star Tribune

A Ramsey County elections official said he believes numerous ballots that were mistakenly rejected remain uncounted.
By PAT DOYLE, [e-mail]
Last update: January 30, 2009 - 1:41 PM

Confusion over election rules and the crush of Election Day business caused local officials to mistakenly disqualify numerous ballots that remain uncounted to this day, an elections expert testified Friday in the courtroom contest over Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount ...

... some new voters put their registration form inside the secrecy envelope containing their absentee ballot, where elections officials overlooked the card and then rejected the ballot as coming from an unregistered voter, he said.

In Ramsey County, Mansky said he believes 62 rejected absentee ballots that were not tallied by the Canvassing Board should have been counted ...

But some of the remaining rejected ballots were vetoed by the Coleman and Franken campaigns. The Minnesota Supreme Court, in ordering a review of rejected absentee ballot envelopes, required agreement by county elections officials and the two campaigns for any of them to be opened and counted. While the counties identified 1,346 mistaken rejects, they and the two campaigns agreed on only 933.



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[truthisfreedom]

1. So what? Coleman's already cheated. He should be disqualified for entering evidence that was

tainted. They should have thrown the book at him the moment the case started. He's totally jerking the judges' collective chains.

[struggle4progress]

2. Coleman's election trial fizzling

By Emily Kaiser in Franken vs. Coleman
Friday, Jan. 30 2009 @ 8:33AM

... Thursday had some great highlights not to be missed. Coleman has been calling witnesses to discuss ballots that were improperly rejected. Unfortunately Coleman's campaign didn't really do their research. These witnesses were supposed to be the main focal point of his trial: proving how many sad voters had their ballots tossed for no good reason.

Talk about a flop. Ramsey County elections director Joe Mansky testified Thursday and said outside of the court room that three of the voters Coleman brought to testify didn't even cast valid ballots ...

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/01/colemans_electi_2.php

[No Elephants]

3. These judges should have thrown his backside out of court. They've been way too good to him.