{"id":6744,"date":"2008-12-14T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T19:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2008-12-16T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:01:35","slug":"video-meet-the-rejected-absentee-voters-in-mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6744","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Meet the Rejected Absentee Voters in MN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are some of the folks whose votes that democracy-hating Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) is <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6742\">going to the state Supreme Court<\/a> to keep from being counted in the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"209\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YBOad11LueE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YBOad11LueE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"209\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The video, produced by challenger Al Franken&#8217;s campaign, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/35938774.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUxWoW_oD:EaDUiacyKUnciaec8O7EyU\">described<\/a> by the Coleman camp as &#8220;a new low.&#8221; As Republicanists tend to project just about everything they do on others, we&#8217;d suggest that there may be &#8220;a new low&#8221; here, but in this case, it ain&#8217;t coming from the Franken camp.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6742\">we reported on Friday<\/a>, the state canvassing board &#8212; made up of Republicans (two  are MN Supreme Court judges), Democrats, and Independents &#8212; 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&#8217;s razor-close U.S. Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully those ballots now <i>will<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>CORRECTION: The original version of this article referred to 16,000 rather than 1,600 improperly rejected absentee ballots. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> regrets the error.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. 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Norm Coleman (R-MN) is going to the state Supreme Court to keep from being counted in the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota&#8230; The video, produced by challenger Al Franken&#8217;s campaign, was described by the Coleman camp as &#8220;a new low.&#8221; As Republicanists tend to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,122,219,233,348],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-franken","category-election-2008","category-minnesota","category-us-senate","category-vote-by-mail","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}