These are some of the folks whose votes that democracy-hating Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) is going to the state Supreme Court to keep from being counted in the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota…
The video, produced by challenger Al Franken’s campaign, was described by the Coleman camp as “a new low.” As Republicanists tend to project just about everything they do on others, we’d suggest that there may be “a new low” here, but in this case, it ain’t coming from the Franken camp.
As we reported on Friday, the state canvassing board — made up of Republicans (two are MN Supreme Court judges), Democrats, and Independents — ruled unanimously in favor of counting the 1,600 or so absentee ballots which were improperly rejected by election officials and not counted originally in the state’s razor-close U.S. Senate race.
Hopefully those ballots now will be counted, unless Coleman has his way in the Supreme Court where he hopes to get an order to stop the counting of legal ballots cast by folks like those seen in the video above. Nice.
CORRECTION: The original version of this article referred to 16,000 rather than 1,600 improperly rejected absentee ballots. The BRAD BLOG regrets the error.
My boyfriend caught this video last week and warned me: “it’s gonna make you cry.” In a testament to how well he knows me–I sobbed in the shower muttering to my moistened, mexican tiles: “QUADRIPLEGICS? SENIOR CITIZENS? POLL WORKERS? ELIGIBLE FIRST TIME VOTERS/ NEW CITIZENS?”
The only thing we’re missing is nuns, military veterans, first responders, and maybe a Pope.
Encouraging to think this video is substantial proof that Al has finally come around. Do you think he’s seen the light? I’m not so sure…
I’ve been following the amazing MN recount coverage (the Uptake RULES!) but I find it odd that Al isn’t doing ANY of the talking. I haven’t heard ONE interview where he discusses his Recount experiences, measures it against his former “don’t ask don’t tell” position on election integrity. Sure would like to.
Ann Coulter is whining that the race is being “openly stolen.” I thought the code of ethics among thieves was that when one thief is outdone by another thief they tip their hat to the successful one and move on. I guess this shows that Coulter and the Repubs don’t have a code of ethics.