422 frivolous challenges in Renville County
November 29, 2010 at 11:45 am in West Central Tribune
OLIVIA Renville County’s recount showed a one-vote change at the end of the day, but amassed 422 frivolous ballot challenges in the process. Continue Reading
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It’s actually true, so it’s not slanted writing, Bob.
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Actually Bob I believe that they are required to record the number of challenges, both the frivolous and the legit ones. Not sure how you can say this is an example of bias reporting if what is being reported is documented facts that we can all see, and according to the story we will be allowed to see the number of challenges per county.
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I might be wrong Bob but I think there is a specific category for the frivolous challenges, at least in reading other stories it seems that there were two challenge categories.
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Bob, READ BELOW and learn something from Mike 1. Stating that there were 422 frivolous challenges was a matter of fact. Throw stones at me all you want, in the end you’re just a blathering mouth piece trying to slander factual reporting.
And drink some coffee, your gray matter seems to be snoozing when you type.
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Bob, wow, wow, WOW. There really were 422 frivolous challenges, get over it okay! What part of that don’t you understand?
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Bob, the Renville County Attorney deemed 422 challenges by the Emmer campaign as frivolous. That fact was reported in Tom C’s article, as well as Don Davis’s article.
Did you pass 2nd grade reading?
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Bob, Bob, Oh Bob…. from Davis’s article: “but the 6,300 ballots counted produced 422 challenges by the Emmer camp that County Auditor Larry Jacobs deemed as frivolous.”
So if you want to attack Larry Jacobs, be my guest. But don’t shoot the messenger, Tom Cherveny.
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The BOLD School District had two declared write-in candidates which is probably why there was such a large number of challenges in Renville County. You’ll note that the areticle states the Emmer rep said he was instructed to challenge any ballot with writing on it, even those with write-in votes. I am assuming my ballot is one of those 422. I know that I clearly and correctly colored in the oval for only one governor candidate. However, I colored in an oval next to a line in the BOLD schools ballot and on that line wrote a name whcih was spelled correctly. I would say that challenging my ballot was frivalous since the writing had nothing to do with the recount for governor. Seems to me that the only legitimate challenges should be for intent or overcounts in the race being recounted. Anything else should be declared frivalous……
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Bob – Randy – you two going to spend the whole afternoon kicking the dead horse?
Sheesh, fellas!
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From what I’ve seen NOBODY can debate without degrading someone. It’s one thing to tell someone that you believe their opinion is wrong, it’s quite another to tell them they need to go back to school, they are a moron, etc. etc. Good grief.
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Aw – Bob and Randy go back quite a ways… prior to Area Voices… they seem to like to go at each other – hard habit to break, ya know. What I do know is that, despite their obvious difference in point of view, when I interact with them, they both tend to be pretty well-mannered (right, Bob? Hehe!)… good guys, both of them.
But I do agree with you, purplegirl – too often the difference in opinion ends up going to an extreme and things tend to get insulting, rude, and personal too quickly… I even find myself going down that road on occassion, unfortunately.
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