Al Franken gets boosts in Minnesota Senate recount

[Ghost in the Machine]

Al Franken gets boosts in Minnesota Senate recount
Published: 12/13/08, 12:05 AM EDT
By BRIAN BAKST

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Democrat Al Franken won a pair of victories Friday before the state board overseeing the Senate recount, including a decision that as many as 1,500 incorrectly rejected absentee ballots should be included.

The board also opted to recommend use of election night results in a Franken-leaning Minneapolis precinct where 133 ballots went missing, a decision that could have cost him 46 votes if it had gone the other way.

"It was a great day for democracy," Franken attorney Marc Elias said after a hearing that drew protesters urging use of rejected absentee votes.

Franken had fought especially hard to include the absentees as he tries to overtake Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in the drawn-out recount.

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[LaPera]

1. Always progressively friendly - Act Blue!

http://www.actblue.com/

[Pab Sungenis]

2. Actually COUNT the votes? Are you NUTS?

That's so...welllll... FAIR!

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. Can you believe the nerve of some people????

:hi:

[opihimoimoi]

4. Franken is predicted to win by 50 votes...Norms head is about to EXPLODE

and BILL'O...his head will also EXPLODE ...showering pus and shit over a 2 square mile area

[seemslikeadream]

5. AND WE WILL DO IT LIVE!

[4 t 4]

6. I send Al the best. Please let him be the winner!! n/t

[pleah]

7. K&R I would love to have someone like Al in MS.

:woohoo:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

8. If only this type of perseverance was exhibited in 2000 and 2004,

I wonder where we would be.

Election fraud must be exposed and ended. Thank you Al... and of course all those others that work so tirelessly to achieve this goal.