Comments on: So, how’s the Minnesota recount going? https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/03/so-hows-the-minnesota-recount/ Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:18:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Camille https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/03/so-hows-the-minnesota-recount/#comment-527469 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:18:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/03/so-hows-the-minnesota-recount/#comment-527469 Politics in Minnesota just keeps getting crazier and nastier. I think it started with Michelle Bachmann’s first election to public office – the crazy is contagious.

]]> By: Monado https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/03/so-hows-the-minnesota-recount/#comment-527468 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:24:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/03/so-hows-the-minnesota-recount/#comment-527468 Ah. Then I hope that all the costs for the recount are charged against their party.

I think that the Republicans are trying to replicate their Norm Coleman success: by unreasonably prolonging the recount process, they managed to delay the start of an effective Democratic Senate and minimize its total effective period.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/03/so-hows-the-minnesota-recount/#comment-527467 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:14:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/03/so-hows-the-minnesota-recount/#comment-527467 These lawyers both promised that they would not be trying to “stuff the ballot box” as it were with “presumptive” or “automatic” or otherwise frivolous challenges. As it is, the Republicans did something even worse than expected in one county: Every ballot that met two conditions: a) A vote for the Dem and b) a write in for any candidate was challenged. No good reason for that, but they did it.

These lawyers promised that this would not happen, the tribunal in charge warned them, and here the Republicans are doing it anyway. They are in contempt.

]]> By: Monado https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/12/03/so-hows-the-minnesota-recount/#comment-527466 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:47:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/03/so-hows-the-minnesota-recount/#comment-527466 Whose heads and why? I’m not familiar with U.S. voting procedures.

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