Also see below for RFK, Jr.'s campaign to keep Minnesota '08 from turning into Florida '00.
MCM Franken camp finds 6,400 uncounted absentee ballots 11/25/2008 @ 2:56 pm Filed by Nick Juliano http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=13068 With the recount in the razor-thin Minnesota U.S. Senate race continuing into its second week, Democratic candidate Al Franken's campaign says it has uncovered 6,400 rejected absentee ballots and will ask a state board to count at least some of those votes. Campaign attorney Marc Elias said Tuesday that the campaign received the rejected ballots from 66 of the state's 87 counties, according to the Associated Press. In some instances, clerical errors or oversight caused the ballot to be improperly rejected. Franken is running to unseat incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. Elections officials have recounted nearly 80 percent of the more than 2 million ballots cast in the Senate race. Coleman's lead has shrunk since election day but still stands at 211 votes, according to figures compiled by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Franken's campaign, meanwhile, estimates the lead is less than half that and says their candidate is just 84 votes behind. Each campaign is challenging more than 1,500 votes each, not counting any of the just-discovered absentee ballots Franken plans to ask to have included. Franken's campaign also says several dozen ballots have gone missing. The state canvassing board will convene next month to rule whether to count the disputed ballots. Its verdicts on the 3,000-plus ballots at issue likely will decide the election. <http://novoterleftbehind.net/blastemail/112508blast.html>Can't read this email? See the Web page here. <http://novoterleftbehind.net> Fellow Democrat, RFK, Jr. asked me to give you this urgent update from Minnesota ... With fewer than 200 votes now separating Minnesota Democrat Al Franken from Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, it is more and more likely that Republicans will use the same tactics they employed in Florida in the wake of the 2000 presidential election to shutdown a recount that is slipping away from them. They are even fighting efforts to get all the absentee ballots counted quickly and accurately! <http://novoterleftbehind.net/>NoVoterLeftBehind.net is fighting to keep the vote recount going in its current stage and right on through the hand-off to a nonpartisan panel of five persons, who will convene to decide the fate of challenged Minnesota Senate race ballots. <https://www.americasdemocrats.org/nvlb/donate_contribute.cfm> You can make a real difference by supporting the important work of <http://novoterleftbehind.net/>NoVoterLeftBehind.net, led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who exposed Republican schemes to steal the 2004 presidential election in Ohio. With thousands of absentee ballots yet to be accounted for, Coleman’s steadily shrinking lead is now down to under 200 votes out of 2.9 million -- a margin of under seven-thousandths of 1 percent. NoVoterLeftBehind.net was founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on the motto “No more 2000s!” That battle cry for our group applies to both national and state-specific races. We know the kind of goon-squad tactics the Republicans used in 2000 to shut down the recount and deny the U.S. presidency to Al Gore. We need the help of concerned Democrats nationwide to make sure this doesn’t happen in Minnesota. Time is short. Please forward this email to friends who share your concern for making sure every vote is counted in the Minnesota US Senate race. The election is not over yet! You can make a real difference today by <https://www.americasdemocrats.org/nvlb/donate_contribute.cfm>helping NoVoterLeftBehind.net stop the GOP from stealing the Minnesota Senate election. Join RFK, Jr. now in making sure that this time democracy wins! Yours, Jennifer Petty Executive Director Democrats for America's Future and NoVoterLeftBehind.net <https://www.americasdemocrats.org/nvlb/donate_contribute.cfm>TAKE ACTION NOW TO SUPPORT NOVOTERLEFTBEHIND.NET! This email was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
