The Minnesota Senate Ballot Challenge-a-thon

[babylonsister]

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/11/the-minnesota-senate-ballot-ch.html

The Minnesota Senate Ballot Challenge-a-thon

Minnesota Public Radio has posted a sampling of the ballots challenged by both sides in the senate recount.

Here's my favorite "close call":

[opihimoimoi]

1. Them Pubs...have they NO SHAME???? Whats wrong with Norm???

A "WIN at any cost" is what got this Nation all fucked up...it leads to LIE CHEAT STEAL.....that has become the Republican Way of late...

Despicable and UnAmerican....we not supposed to win like that....thats shameful...see what happened to Bush...ya don wanna be like him...loss of face respect and credibility.....thats a loser there...

[Occam Bandage]

3. Franken has plenty of ridiculous challenges, too. nt

[opihimoimoi]

4. Ys see what happens...it becomes contagious.....HAH......LOL

[Jim Lane]

2. A better link, with ALL the examples

Your link has just the one example highlighted by the Jed Report. The from Minnesota Public Radio has more than a dozen examples, some of them clear, some of them fairly tough to resolve. It also has a tabulation of how people visiting the site have voted on each instance.

I voted against Franken on some of them, such as #9 from the Day 1 ballots, where I thought the Franken campaign's position was just silly. (I don't know how to copy it, but there's a clearly filled-in oval next to Barkley's name, and eraser marks next to Franken's. It's obvious that the voter filled in the Franken oval, then changed his or her mind and erased that mark, substituting a vote for Barkley. "The Franken campaign challenged this ballot. Even though the voter filled in the bubble next to Barkley's name, a Franken representative said what appear to be eraser marks over Franken's bubble indicated the voter intended to vote for Franken." Sorry, Al, that's a Barkley vote.)