Franken Camp Ratchets Up Pressure On Vote-Counters

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Franken Camp Ratchets Up Pressure On Vote-Counters
By Eric Kleefeld - December 10, 2008, 2:25PM


The Franken campaign is increasing the pressure in their PR push going into Friday's state canvass board meeting -- a key meeting that could determine whether wrongly-rejected absentee votes are re-admitted, potentially giving the election to Franken.

This new Web vid, rolled out moments ago during a briefing with reporters, is the centerpiece of the new PR push, featuring actual voters saying their absentee ballots were wrongly thrown out:

(Video at link)

The Franken team is clearly trying to bring pressure on the state canvassing board -- not to mention reporters -- to take the voting snafus seriously.

"We've made this video because the mistakes don't just affect votes, they affect people," said Franken spokesman Andy Barr during the briefing, later adding: "Those mistakes having been made, we hope that the state canvassing board -- we expect that the state canvassing board would not compound those mistakes by refusing to fix them when they have the chance."

The Franken camp has estimated that nearly 1,000 wrongly-rejected absentee votes are out there. Those votes would probably break Franken's way, as pre-election polling showed Franken winning the absentees overall. So keep a very close eye on Friday's canvass board meeting -- it could very well determine who is sitting as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota this time next month.

[pacalo]

1. Excellent -- K&R.

[Festivito]

2. The missing 133 votes poses quite the dilemma.

Glad he's hitting the think space that Republicans usually hit through their profuse mouthpieces, something we lack.

[Hokie]

4. These are different issues

The absentee ballots are legit votes that have never been counted. The missing 133 ballots were counted on election night. This will be resolved by reverting to the election night count. The state canvassing board needs to order the counties to allow the absentee ballots that were wrongfully rejected.

[Hokie]

3. K&R. This is a well produced video

Everyone needs to watch this.

[marshall]

5. Unfortunately all eyes have now turned to the Illinois senate seat

It is going to be doubly hard for Franken to gin up PR excitement about Minnesota.

[VOX]

6. Another kick and recommend. Mandatory viewing. n/t