Comments on: Déjà vu meets snafu at recount Ground Zero

By: jerry

jerry — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:08:01 +0000

Seems that there is a double standard when if comes to students. Certainly there could be fraud involved in same-day registration (if these individuals had voted by absentee in other precincts). But why would this be any greater risk for students than anyone else that has a second or new residence? It seems that there is someone in these areas targeting students…disenfranchising them mainly because they will vote in a particular way.

Why not simply allow them to fill out a “provisional ballot”? That’s everyone else’s right! To deny someone the right to vote at the time of the poll closing is reprehensible…if not criminal.

WHO was involved in the decision to DENY these students the right to vote? Name names! Is the same person, or group, that acted to disenfranchise students at Melrose? And are the missing 133 ballots handled by that person? Denying HUNDREDS of citizens the right to vote should be a felony dozens of times over.

By: hess

hess — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:27:54 +0000

“The eyes of the nation have fallen once before on Minneapolis Precinct 1, Ward 3, where the rebuilt I-35W bridge leaves land to once again leap over the Mississippi River.”

Oh my jesus is this the most painful lead of all time; eyeballs leaping over rivers. Ow.

By: Lazercat

Lazercat — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:25:59 +0000

When the count is close the Republicans are guaranteed to cheat. Why do we let these people steal every election? We need campaign reform now.

Here is what Al Gore says.

“Vice President Al Gore, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative yesterday, called on young people to “prevent the construction of new coal plants” through civil disobedience, repeating a call he made last year in an interview with Nick Kristof. At CGI, Gore said:

If you’re a young person, looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now and not done, I believe we’ve reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.”

Maybe it is time to set things right?

By: eb

eb — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:46:25 +0000

You had me until the final paragraph, specifically the last sentence. The office of the SOS does much more than just elections.

I also feel that the issue of student based housing and the option of rent statements should get more face time (education & promotion) by the media, housing groups/associations, student groups, etc. I do feel that part of the training for this issue also falls to the cities and counties where there is a high density of student housing. Especially when this was a known issue as it was in 2006 for Mpls W3 P1.

We saw this as an issue in Minneapolis in 2008 but did we see this in Mankato, Duluth, St. Paul, etc? If not, let’s ask the question, why not? If Minneapolis has different needs let’s make sure the city gets the support required to meet it’s educational and training goals so that no voter gets turned away based on their student housing status.