Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Norm Coleman lawyer/spin-man: We're still sniffing for more votes!


In Tuesday's episode..
TPM:

Coleman lawyer Ben Ginsberg announced Tuesday that one MN county reports finding seven new ballots -- what he calls a key development 'showing the inaccuracy of the canvassing board total.'

Two funny moments today from the Minnesota trial:
Coleman lawyer Tony Trimble was asking Kevin Boyle, the election/records manager in Republican-leaning Dakota County, about the requirement that an absentee voter put his residential address on the ballot envelope, as opposed to a P.O. box where he might actually receive his mail. Quite a few ballots have been thrown out because of this.
So Trimble asked what the county would do if a voter gave his P.O. box for the purposes of paying his property taxes, clearly expecting a simple, common-sense answer that the county would accept the money:
Trimble: Is there any reason you would reject it?

Boyle: I think you're talking about property taxation--

Trimble: That's correct.

Boyle: --and I'm a bit unfamiliar with what their practices are.

1 comment:

airJackie said...

Norm needs votes even if he has to make them up himself. This is getting old and needs to end. Norm lost and nothing will change that.