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	<title>Comments on: Franken-Coleman Recount, Weekend Edition: Waiting for Monday</title>
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		<title>By: johnSwifty22</title>
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		<dc:creator>johnSwifty22</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;If Nate Silver is even remotely close (and everything about this race is remote, the margins of error are significantly larger than the predicted margins of victory), he will be regarded as a Hari Seldon made real.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m ready for to worship a new deity.  The bloom is already off the Obama rose.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No Norm.  I’ll take Al and, of course, Nate forever!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Nate Silver is even remotely close (and everything about this race is remote, the margins of error are significantly larger than the predicted margins of victory), he will be regarded as a Hari Seldon made real.</p>
<p>I’m ready for to worship a new deity.  The bloom is already off the Obama rose.</p>
<p>No Norm.  I’ll take Al and, of course, Nate forever!</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
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		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;“Over 12,000 RNC-generated runoff absentee ballots in Cobb and DeKalb Counties in Georgia were rejected because they weren’t signed.  Hey, aren’t Republicans supposed to be superior beings who never ever mess up their ballots?  Or was this a failed effort to do some ballot-box stuffing?”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Actually these were “requests” for absentee ballots…not actual submitted ballots. But it raises the question if third-parties may have been out to bolster participation by submitting requests to registered Republicans in nursing homes, senior housing, or near 100% Republican gated retirement communities, etc. That’s assuming a “best case scenario”…that these people actually intended to vote in person and would receive a duplicate ballot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, perhaps these requests are for people that have since moved, and someone else intend to fill in the ballot. If the person doesn’t show up to vote the ballot might “get through” on a forged signature. Or it might be an effort to disenfranchise those who intend to vote in person. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The SoS of Georgia should be required to investigate if there is a pattern to these unusual requests by actually contacting the voters…seeing if they are alive/resident in Georgia, and whether they actually made a request. If they didn’t then some sort of shenanigans are up.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Over 12,000 RNC-generated runoff absentee ballots in Cobb and DeKalb Counties in Georgia were rejected because they weren’t signed.  Hey, aren’t Republicans supposed to be superior beings who never ever mess up their ballots?  Or was this a failed effort to do some ballot-box stuffing?”</p>
<p>Actually these were “requests” for absentee ballots…not actual submitted ballots. But it raises the question if third-parties may have been out to bolster participation by submitting requests to registered Republicans in nursing homes, senior housing, or near 100% Republican gated retirement communities, etc. That’s assuming a “best case scenario”…that these people actually intended to vote in person and would receive a duplicate ballot.</p>
<p>Of course, perhaps these requests are for people that have since moved, and someone else intend to fill in the ballot. If the person doesn’t show up to vote the ballot might “get through” on a forged signature. Or it might be an effort to disenfranchise those who intend to vote in person. </p>
<p>The SoS of Georgia should be required to investigate if there is a pattern to these unusual requests by actually contacting the voters…seeing if they are alive/resident in Georgia, and whether they actually made a request. If they didn’t then some sort of shenanigans are up.</p>
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